SMAD6

Also known as AOVD2, HsT17432, MADH6, MADH7, SMAD family member 6

SMAD family member 6, also known as SMAD6, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SMAD6 gene.

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SMAD6

Name: SMAD family member 6
Type: protein-coding
Aliases: AOVD2, HsT17432, MADH6, MADH7

The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the SMAD family of proteins, which are related to Drosophila 'mothers against decapentaplegic' (Mad) and C. elegans Sma. SMAD proteins are signal transducers and transcriptional modulators that mediate multiple signaling pathways. This protein functions in the negative regulation of BMP and TGF-beta/activin-signalling. Multiple transcript variants have been found for this gene.[provided by RefSeq, Sep 2014].

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SMAD family member 6

Symbol: SMAD6
Biotype: Protein coding
Organism: Homo sapiens
Location: 15:66,701,224-66,782,860
Strand: Forward (+)
Assembly: GRCh38

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HomoloGene ID: 4079
exact match: identifiers.org/ncbigene/4091
genomic end: 66782849
genomic start: 66702236
cytogenetic location: 15q22.31

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SMAD family member 6, also known as SMAD6, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SMAD6 gene.

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.