Talk:Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 4

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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]

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