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Also known as: Growth/differentiation factor 8, GDF-8, GDF8, MSTN
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Human myostatin is an endogenous secreted ligand of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily. The MSTN-encoded preproprotein is proteolytically processed to generate the mature signaling subunit, which forms a disulfide-linked homodimer. Myostatin signaling regulates skeletal-muscle cell proliferation and differentiation and normally limits skeletal-muscle growth.
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No universal catalog size, storage condition, solubility specification, pharmacokinetic half-life, or onset value is appropriate for the unqualified protein name because these properties depend on species, construct, processing state, purification, buffer, and experimental system. The foundational functional evidence established GDF-8/myostatin as a negative regulator of skeletal-muscle growth in mice.
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HGNC:4223; NCBI Gene:2660; UniProtKB:O14793; RefSeq:NP_005250.1; Ensembl:ENSG00000138379; MIM:601788
Myostatin is a protein biomolecule rather than a small-molecule chemical compound. The term may refer to the endogenous protein generally or to a species-specific recombinant research protein; sequence, processing, activity, and formulation can therefore vary by species and construct.
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