Transforming growth factor-beta 2 (TGF-β2) is a secreted protein known as a
cytokine that performs many cellular functions and has a vital role during
embryonic development
An embryo is an initial stage of development of a multicellular organism. In organisms that reproduce sexually, embryonic development is the part of the life cycle that begins just after fertilization of the female egg cell by the male sperm ...
(alternative names:
Glioblastoma-derived T-cell suppressor factor, G-TSF, BSC-1 cell growth inhibitor, Polyergin, Cetermin). It is an
extracellular glycosylated protein. It is known to suppress the effects of
interleukin dependent
T-cell tumors. There are two named isoforms of this protein, created by
alternative splicing
Alternative splicing, or alternative RNA splicing, or differential splicing, is an alternative splicing process during gene expression that allows a single gene to code for multiple proteins. In this process, particular exons of a gene may be ...
of the same
gene (i.e., ).
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{{TGFβ receptor superfamily modulators
Proteins
TGFβ domain