ID:NODAL_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Nodal homolog; Flags: Precursor; FUNCTION: Essential for mesoderm formation and axial patterning during embryonic development (By similarity). SUBUNIT: Homodimer; disulfide-linked (By similarity). SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Secreted (By similarity). DISEASE: Defects in NODAL are the cause of visceral heterotaxy autosomal type 5 (HTX5) [MIM:270100]. A form of visceral heterotaxy, a complex disorder due to disruption of the normal left-right asymmetry of the thoracoabdominal organs. It results in an abnormal arrangement of visceral organs, and a wide variety of congenital defects. Clinical features of visceral heterotaxy autosomal type 5 include situs inversus viscerum or situs ambiguus, congenital heart defect, transposition of the great vessels ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect, truncuscommunis, and dextrocardia. SIMILARITY: Belongs to the TGF-beta family.
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on Q96S42
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
Protein Q96S42 (Reactome details) participates in the following event(s):
R-HSA-1181152 Cleavage of NODAL proprotein R-HSA-1181352 LEFTY binds NODAL R-HSA-1181354 CERBERUS binds NODAL R-HSA-1181155 The NODAL Receptor binds NODAL ligands R-HSA-1181156 Type II Activin Receptor (ActRII/ACVR2) phosphorylates Type I Activin Receptor (ActRIB/ACVR1B) in response to NODAL R-HSA-1225894 Type II Activin Receptor (ActRIIB/ACVR2B) phosphorylates Type I Activin Receptor (ActRIC/ACVR1C) in response to NODAL R-HSA-1181355 Phosphorylation of R-SMAD2/3 by NODAL receptor R-HSA-1181150 Signaling by NODAL R-HSA-1433617 Regulation of signaling by NODAL R-HSA-1266738 Developmental Biology