Bone morphogenetic protein 8A

Bone morphogenetic protein 8a

Identifiers

BMP8A; FLJ14351; FLJ45264

External IDs

Gene Ontology
Molecular function	• cytokine activity • growth factor activity
Cellular component	• extracellular region • extracellular space
Biological process	• ossification • multicellular organismal development • cell differentiation • growth • cartilage development
Sources: Amigo / QuickGO

Orthologs

Species

Human

Mouse

Entrez

RefSeq (mRNA)

RefSeq (protein)

Location (UCSC)

PubMed search

Bone morphogenetic protein 8A (BMP8A) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BMP8A gene.^[1]

BMP8A is a polypeptide member of the TGFβ superfamily of proteins. It, like other bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), is involved in the development of bone and cartilage. BMP8A may be involved in epithelial osteogenesis. It also plays a role in bone homeostasis. It is a disulfide-linked homodimer.

References

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Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs.". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.

Cell signaling: TGF beta signaling pathway

TGF beta superfamily of ligands	TGF beta family (TGF-β1, TGF-β2, TGF-β3) Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMP2, BMP3, BMP4, BMP5, BMP6, BMP7, BMP8a, BMP8b, BMP10 , BMP15) Growth differentiation factors (GDF1, GDF2, GDF3, GDF5, GDF6, GDF7, Myostatin/GDF8, GDF9, GDF10, GDF11, GDF15) Other (Activin and inhibin, Anti-müllerian hormone, Nodal)

TGF beta receptors (Activin, BMP)	TGFBR1: Activin type 1 receptors (ACVR1, ACVR1B, ACVR1C) · ACVRL1 · BMPR1 (BMPR1A · BMPR1B) TGFBR2: Activin type 2 receptors (ACVR2A, ACVR2B) · AMHR2 · BMPR2 TGFBR3: betaglycan

Transducers/SMAD	R-SMAD (SMAD1, SMAD2, SMAD3, SMAD5, SMAD9) · I-SMAD (SMAD6, SMAD7) · SMAD4

Ligand inhibitors	Cerberus · Chordin · DAN · Decorin · Follistatin · Gremlin · Lefty · LTBP1 · Noggin · THBS1

Coreceptors	BAMBI · Cripto

Other	SARA

B trdu: iter (nrpl/grfl/cytl/horl), csrc (lgic, enzr, gprc, igsr, intg, nrpr/grfr/cytr), itra (adap, gbpr, mapk), calc, lipd; path (hedp, wntp, tgfp+mapp, notp, jakp, fsap, hipp, tlrp)