Activin receptor type-2B is aprotein that in humans is encoded by theACVR2Bgene.[5][6][7] ACVR2B is anactivin type 2 receptor.
Activins are dimeric growth and differentiation factors which belong to thetransforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) superfamily of structurally related signaling proteins. Activins signal through a heteromeric complex ofreceptor serine kinases which include at least two type I (I and IB) and two type II (II and IIB) receptors. These receptors are all transmembrane proteins, composed of a ligand-binding extracellular domain withcysteine-rich region, atransmembrane domain, and acytoplasmic domain with predicted serine/threonine specificity. Type I receptors are essential for signaling; and type II receptors are required for binding ligands and for expression of type I receptors. Type I and II receptors form a stable complex after ligand binding, resulting inphosphorylation of type I receptors by type II receptors. Type II receptors are considered to be constitutively active kinases. This gene encodes activin A type IIB receptor, which displays a 3- to 4-fold higher affinity for the ligand than activin A type II receptor.[7]
ACVR2B has been shown tointeract withACVR1B[8][9] andSYNJ2BP.[10]
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