Talk:SMAD4

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Good afternoon everyone! My name is Claire-Marie, I am currently studying at Imperial College as an French Erasmus Student, and I intend to improve this page in order to make the information about the SMAD-4 proteins clearer and more accessible. I will probably include some graphs/charts/patterns. I know this page is part of a Wiki Project to improve the content of the existing cell signaling-related pages. I hope that everybody is fine with my 'intervention' Clairette3393 (talk) 17:06, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Mother's against decapentaplegic homolog 4 Nomenclature

The SMAD family of proteins have a very interesting official name. In the early days of especially, Drosophila research, scientists involved in naming these protein products decided to give these proteins fun names. Unfortunately, this practice is no longer encouraged as most genes today are named systematically and given names that describe the genes/protein's function. A well known example is Sonic hedgehog which is literally named after the video game character Sonic the Hedgehog (character). [edit]

Requested move 30 November 2025

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The result of the move request was: moved. Moved as an uncontested request with minimal participation. If there is any objection within a reasonable time frame, please ask me to reopen the discussion; if I am not available, please ask at the technical requests page. (closed by non-admin page mover) Tenshi! (Talk page) 22:44, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 4 → SMAD4
• Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 1 → SMAD1
• Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 2 → SMAD2
• Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 3 → SMAD3
• Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 5 → SMAD5
• Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 6 → SMAD6
• Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 7 → SMAD7
• Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 9 → SMAD9

– WP:COMMONNAME & WP:CONCISE Joe vom Titan (talk) 14:52, 30 November 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. – LuniZunie ツ_(talk) 16:18, 7 December 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Vestrian24Bio 13:21, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Prefer SMAD# as initiator because it's the most concise. Support SMAD family member #. The current page names seem outdated . Catalogs list the following names:

• OMI: "SMAD FAMILY MEMBER 4; SMAD4" (title of page)
• MGI: "SMAD family member 4" ("Name")
• HomoloGene: "SMAD family member 4" ("Gene name")
• GeneCards: "SMAD4" (title)
• OMA: "Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 4 [SMAD4]" (subtitle)

(source: infobox links) Joe vom Titan (talk) 15:11, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Note to Patrollers

Before you delete this page check out the links on the page to see if the information on it is accurate, in particular, the name.

Note: WikiProject Molecular Biology/Cell Signaling and WikiProject Molecular Biology have been notified of this discussion. Vestrian24Bio 13:22, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.