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SMAD8

SMAD9
Identifiers
Aliases SMAD9, MADH6, MADH9, PPH2, SMAD8, SMAD8A, SMAD8B, SMAD8/9, SMAD family member 9
External IDs OMIM: 603295 MGI: 1859993 HomoloGene: 21198 GeneCards: SMAD9
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001127217
NM_005905

NM_019483

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001120689
NP_005896

NP_062356.3
NP_062356

Location (UCSC) Chr 13: 36.84 – 36.92 Mb Chr 3: 54.76 – 54.8 Mb
PubMed search

NM_001127217
NM_005905

NM_019483

NP_001120689
NP_005896

NP_062356.3
NP_062356

Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 9 also known as SMAD9, SMAD8, and MADH6 is a protein that in humans is enocoded by the SMAD9 gene.

SMAD9, as its name describes, is a homolog of the Drosophila gene: "Mothers against decapentaplegic". It belongs to the SMAD family of proteins, which belong to the TGFβ superfamily of modulators. Like many other TGFβ family members, SMAD9 is involved in cell signalling. When a bone morphogenetic protein binds to a receptor (BMP type 1 receptor kinase) it causes SMAD9 to interact with SMAD anchor for receptor activation (SARA).The binding of ligands causes the phosphorylation of the SMAD9 protein and the dissociation from SARA and the association with SMAD4. It is subsequently transferred to the nucleus where it forms complexes with other proteins and acts as a transcription factor. SMAD9 is a receptor regulated SMAD (R-SMAD) and is activated by bone morphogenetic protein type 1 receptor kinase. There are two isoforms of the protein. Confusingly, it is also sometimes referred to as SMAD8 in the literature.


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