Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 6

SMAD6
Identifiers
AliasesSMAD6, AOVD2, HsT17432, MADH6, MADH7, SMAD family member 6
External IDsOMIM: 602931; MGI: 1336883; HomoloGene: 4079; GeneCards: SMAD6; OMA:SMAD6 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001142861
NM_005585

NM_008542

RefSeq (protein)

NP_005576

NP_032568

Location (UCSC)Chr 15: 66.7 – 66.78 MbChr 9: 63.86 – 63.93 Mb
PubMed search[3][4]
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SMAD family member 6, also known as SMAD6, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SMAD6 gene.[5]

SMAD6 is a protein that, 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 SMAD6 is involved in cell signalling. It acts as a regulator of TGFβ family (such as bone morphogenetic proteins) activity by competing with SMAD4 and preventing the transcription of SMAD4's gene products. There are two known isoforms of this protein.

  1. ^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000137834Ensembl, May 2017
  2. ^ a b c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000036867Ensembl, May 2017
  3. ^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. ^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. ^ "Entrez Gene: SMAD6 SMAD family member 6".