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Nature Cell Biology 10, 635 - 637 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ncb0608-635

SUMO amplifies TGF-bold beta signalling

Kohei Miyazono1, Yuto Kamiya1 & Keiji Miyazawa1

  1. Kohei Miyazono, Yuto Kamiya and Keiji Miyazawa are in the Department of Molecular Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
    e-mail: miyazono-ind@umin.ac.jp
    e-mail: mm66211@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
    e-mail: keiji-miyazawa@umin.ac.jp


Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) stimulates phosphorylation of TGF-beta type I receptor. This receptor is now shown to be sumoylated, leading to enhanced activation and modulation of the downstream Smad signalling pathway.

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