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"In the present study, Que inhibited the expression of TGF-β1 and P-Smad2/Smad3 proteins in PAH model group, but had no significant effect on Smad2 and Smad3 mRNA levels, indicating that Que inhibited the phosphorylation of Smad2 and Smad3 by down-regulating the expression of TGF-β1, thus playing a nuclear regulatory role."
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"Another interesting and novel observation of this study was the mutual amplification of effects such that knockdown of Smad2 or inhibition of Rac1 (without direct modulation of Smad3) enhanced growth inhibition, Smad3 specific transcriptional activity, and C-terminal phosphorylation of Smad3, while knockdown of Smad3 (without direct modulation of Smad2) enhanced both Smad2 specific responses such as cellular migration (this study) and Smad2 phosphorylation by TGF-beta [XREF_BIBR]."
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"Furthermore, both SMAD2 and SMAD3 are activated by phosphorylation, and our results support that patients whose TAFs exhibit a low (<1) pSMAD3/pSMAD2 ratio may be refractory to nintedanib and possibly to other antifibrotic drugs, whereas those with high (>1) pSMAD3/pSMAD2 ratio may elicit positive responses (where pSMAD2 and pSMAD3 refers to phosphorylated SMAD2 and SMAD3, respectively) (Figure 3D)."
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"In another co-IP experiment, we found that the presence of RGS6 significantly reduced the amount of phosphorylated SMAD2 and phosphorylated SMAD3 pulled down by anti-SMAD4 antibody, indicating that the interaction between RGS6 and SMAD4 preventing complex formation between SMAD4 and phosphorylated SMAD2/3 (Fig. xref )."
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"Similarly, our results validated that HCG decreased p-Smad2 and p-Smad3 and the knockdown of Smad2 reduced the autophagy and EMT of GCTB stromal cells induced by HCG.Smad protein transduction results from signals from the TGF-β receptors, and TGF-β-type II receptors phosphorylate Smad2 and Smad3 by binding ligands Activin A and growth differentiation factor-8 (GDF-8) and thus lead to intracellular signaling [39-41]."