Dishevelled Associated Activator Of Morphogenesis 2 (DAAM2)

By sequencing randomly selected cDNAs corresponding to relatively long transcripts from brain, Nagase et al. (1997) identified a cDNA which they designated KIAA0381. The KIAA0381 cDNA encodes an 864-amino acid protein predicted to be involved in cell division.

Habas et al. (2001) reported that in human cells and during Xenopus embryogenesis, Wnt/Fz signaling activates the small GTPase Rho, a key regulator of cytoskeleton architecture. Wnt/Fz activation of Rho requires the cytoplasmic protein dishevelled (DVL) and a novel formin homology (FH) protein that they identified and named DAAM1. Habas et al. (2001) identified DAAM2, which is identical to KIAA0381, as a protein that is closely related to DAAM1.