BMP6
BMP6 (Bone morphogenetic protein 6) is a gene that drives cell growth when it is altered. The public catalogues list it as an oncogene driver, and it is called a cancer driver by mutation analysis of patient cohorts. Tied to Prostate cancer.
Overview
Growth factor of the TGF-beta superfamily that plays essential roles in many developmental processes including cartilage and bone formation. Also plays an important role in the regulation of HAMP/hepcidin expression and iron metabolism by acting as a ligand for haemojuvelin/HJV. Also acts to promote expression of HAMP, potentially via the interaction with its receptor BMPR1A/ALK3.
IntOGen calls it a driver in 1 cohort (1 activating, 0 loss-of-function), covering Prostate Adenocarcinoma.
- Target · the protein and the cell it sits on
- Drug · antibody, small molecule, cell or radioligand
- Effect · signal, damage or kill
In plain words · BMP6 (Bone morphogenetic protein 6) is a gene that drives cell growth when it is altered. The public catalogues list it as an oncogene driver, and it is called a cancer driver by mutation analysis of patient cohorts. Tied to Prostate cancer.
- 1 · What it is
BMP6 (Bone morphogenetic protein 6) is a gene that drives cell growth when it is altered. The public catalogues list it as an oncogene driver, and it is called a cancer driver by mutation analysis of patient cohorts. Tied to Prostate cancer.
- 2 · What goes wrong in cancer
Growth factor of the TGF-beta superfamily that plays essential roles in many developmental processes including cartilage and bone formation.
- 3 · How drugs use it
No product in this corpus aims at BMP6 yet. Drugs fit a pocket that exists only in one shape of the mutant protein and hold it there, off.
External identifiers
Sources: HGNC HGNC:1073 (approved symbol, name, aliases, locus and cross-references (hgnc_complete_set.txt)); UniProt P22004 (protein name, function text, keywords and locations (REST API)); IntOGen BMP6 (driver in 1 cohort (Act 1, LoF 0); Compendium_Cancer_Genes.tsv release 20240920, CC0 1.0)
Biology
Growth factor of the TGF-beta superfamily that plays essential roles in many developmental processes including cartilage and bone formation. Also plays an important role in the regulation of HAMP/hepcidin expression and iron metabolism by acting as a ligand for haemojuvelin/HJV. Also acts to promote expression of HAMP, potentially via the interaction with its receptor BMPR1A/ALK3. Initiates the canonical BMP signalling cascade by associating with type I receptor ACVR1 and type II receptor ACVR2B. In turn, ACVR1 propagates signal by phosphorylating SMAD1/5/8 that travel to the nucleus and act as activators and repressors of transcription of target. Can also signal through non-canonical pathway such as TAZ-Hippo signalling cascade to modulate VEGF signalling by regulating VEGFR2 expression. Location: Secreted (UniProt). Locus 6p24.3 (HGNC).
- Prostate cancer: IntOGen driver in 1 cohort (PRAD)
Notes
top- Written by scripts/fetch-cancer-genes.ts from CIViC, Open Targets, IntOGen, HGNC and UniProt; the function text is UniProt's, condensed and in UK spelling. Roles: IntOGen calls it an activating (Act) driver in 1 cohort. Evidence tier "cohort-driver" is the strongest of those signals.
- Prevalence not recorded: none of the sources gives a positivity rate.
Latest papers
topQuery for this target: (TITLE:"BMP6" OR ABSTRACT:"BMP6" OR TITLE:"bone morphogenetic protein 6" OR ABSTRACT:"bone morphogenetic protein 6" OR TITLE:"Bone morphogenetic protein 6" OR ABSTRACT:"Bone morphogenetic protein 6" OR TITLE:"VGR1" OR ABSTRACT:"VGR1") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about BMP6, not a curated reading list.