Talk:SMAD4

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

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)Reply



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

Latest comment: 8 months ago4 comments3 people in discussion
The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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)Reply

– 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)Reply

Prefer SMAD# as initiator because it's the most concise. Support SMAD family member #. The current page names seem outdated [1]. 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)Reply

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)Reply
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.

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