Merck BMP-2 Protein, Human Recombinant

BMP-2 Protein, Human Recombinant

The Human Bone morphogenetic protein 2 (or BMP-2 protein) is a member of the BMP protein subgroup of the TGFβ superfamily.

Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2, BMP2, BMP-2A

Quality Level

100

assay

>98% (SDS-PAGE and HPLC)

불순물

<0.1 μg/mg protein endotoxin (<1EU/μg)

UniProt 수납 번호

P12643

배송 상태

dry ice

Bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2) is a member of the BMP subgroup of the TGFβ superfamily. It plays a dominant role in embryonic dorsalventral patterning, organogenesis, limb bud formation, and bone formation and regeneration. BMP-2 is a potent osteoinductive cytokine, capable of inducing bone and cartilage formation in association with osteoconductive carriers such as collagen and synthetic hydroxyapatite. In addition to its osteogenic activity, BMP-2 plays an important role in cardiac morphogenesis and is expressed in a variety of tissues including lung, spleen, brain, liver, prostate ovary and small intestine. The functional form of BMP-2 is a 26 kDa protein composed of two identical 114 amino acid polypeptide chains linked by a single disulfide bond. Each BMP-2 monomer is expressed as the C-terminal part of a precursor polypeptide, which also contains a 23 amino acid signal sequence for secretion, and a 259 amino acid propeptide. After dimerization of this precursor, the covalent bonds between the propeptide (which is also a disulfide-linked homodimer) and the mature BMP-2 ligand are cleaved by a furin-type protease. Recombinant human BMP-2 is a 26.0 kDa homodimeric protein consisting of two 115 amino acid polypeptide chains.