Historical Background
The adaptor protein SARA was first identified as a novel serine protease-like molecule in human brain (Meckelein et al. 1998), and then later characterized as an important regulator of TGF-ß1 signal transduction. SARA interacts with both the type I and type II TGF-ß1 receptors (TßRI and TßRII), and contains a Smad-binding domain (SBD) as well as a double zinc finger FYVE domain that localizes SARA to endosomal subcellular compartments (Tsukazaki et al. 1998). SARA also contains a region homologous to the active site of trypsin-like serine proteases (Meckelein et al. 1998) and a binding motif for the catalytic subunit of type 1 serine/threonine protein phosphatase (PP1c) (Bennett and Alphey 2002). Three alternatively spliced transcripts encoding distinct isoforms have been found for this gene (Fig. 1).
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Runyan, C.E., William Schnaper, H. (2018). SARA. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_598
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