Description: The biological activity of Jervine (Jerwiny) is mediated via its interaction with the 7 passes transmembrane protein Smoothened. Jervine binds with and inhibits smoothened, which is an integral part of the Hedgehog signaling pathways. With smoothened inhibited, the GLI1 transcription cannot be activated...

Jervine is a naturally occurring teratogenic alkaloid that inhibits the sonic hedgehog pathway (IC50s = 500-700 nM) in vitro. It induces a variety of birth defects in vivo, including holoprosencephaly, cyclopia, cebocephaly, exencephaly, and microphthalmia in rat, chicken, and sheep. Jervine also reduces lipid...