Human populations can exist at equilibrium densities in one of two ways:

1. High birth and high death rates

2. Low birth and low death rate

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RI and RII receptors are homodimeric proteins with serine/threonine kinases in their cytosolic domains. 

(RI and RII sufficient to serve as a functional hetero-tetrameric TGF-β receptor)

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RII exhibits constitutive kinase activity; means it is active even when not bound to TGF-β.

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RIII, also called β-glycan, is a cell-surface proteoglycan.

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The function of RIII for TGF-β receptors is similar to that of the α subunit of the IL-2 receptor 

(means facilitating TGF-β binding to the RII and RI)

   

         

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Most cells lack RIII, TGF-β binds directly to the RII

dimer, but Active RII kinase activity is not sufficient to generate an intracellular signal

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RI will not bind to RII unless RII is bound to TGF-β.