TGF-beta signal transduction: biology, function and therapy for diseases

The transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) is a crucial cytokine that get increasing concern in recent years to treat human diseases. This signal controls multiple cellular responses during embryonic development and tissue homeostasis through canonical and/or noncanonical signaling pathways. Dysreg...

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Published in:Molecular biomedicine 2022-12, Vol.3 (1), p.45-45, Article 45
Main Authors: Tie, Yan, Tang, Fan, Peng, Dandan, Zhang, Ye, Shi, Huashan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anemia
Biology
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology
Biomedicine
Cancer
Clinical trials
Cytokines
Extracellular matrix
Fibroblasts
Fibrosis
Gene expression
Glycoproteins
Kinases
Ligands
Molecular Medicine
Phosphorylation
Polypeptides
Proteins
Review
Roles
Signal transduction
Targeted therapy
TGF-beta
Tumor microenvironment
Tumorigenesis
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Summary:The transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) is a crucial cytokine that get increasing concern in recent years to treat human diseases. This signal controls multiple cellular responses during embryonic development and tissue homeostasis through canonical and/or noncanonical signaling pathways. Dysregulated TGF-β signal plays an essential role in contributing to fibrosis via promoting the extracellular matrix deposition, and tumor progression via inducing the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, immunosuppression, and neovascularization at the advanced stage of cancer. Besides, the dysregulation of TGF-beta signal also involves in other human diseases including anemia, inflammatory disease, wound healing and cardiovascular disease et al. Therefore, this signal is proposed to be a promising therapeutic target in these diseases. Recently, multiple strategies targeting TGF-β signals including neutralizing antibodies, ligand traps, small-molecule receptor kinase inhibitors targeting ligand–receptor signaling pathways, antisense oligonucleotides to disrupt the production of TGF-β at the transcriptional level, and vaccine are under evaluation of safety and efficacy for the forementioned diseases in clinical trials. Here, in this review, we firstly summarized the biology and function of TGF-β in physiological and pathological conditions, elaborated TGF-β associated signal transduction. And then, we analyzed the current advances in preclinical studies and clinical strategies targeting TGF-β signal transduction to treat diseases.
ISSN:2662-8651
2662-8651
DOI:10.1186/s43556-022-00109-9