Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 7

SMAD7
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesSMAD7, CRCS3, MADH7, MADH8, SMAD family member 7
External IDsOMIM: 602932; MGI: 1100518; HomoloGene: 4314; GeneCards: SMAD7; OMA:SMAD7 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

4092

17131

Ensembl

ENSG00000101665

ENSMUSG00000025880

UniProt

O15105

O35253

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_005904
NM_001190821
NM_001190822
NM_001190823

NM_001042660
NM_008543

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001177750
NP_001177751
NP_001177752
NP_005895

NP_001036125

Location (UCSC)Chr 18: 48.92 – 48.95 MbChr 18: 75.5 – 75.53 Mb
PubMed search
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Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 7 or SMAD7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SMAD7 gene.

SMAD7 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 ligands. Like many other TGFβ family members, SMAD7 is involved in cell signalling. It is a TGFβ type 1 receptor antagonist. It blocks TGFβ1 and activin associating with the receptor, blocking access to SMAD2. It is an inhibitory SMAD (I-SMAD) and is enhanced by SMURF2.

Smad7 enhances muscle differentiation.