Hedgehog Family

**Semantic type:** Amino Acid, Peptide, or Protein

**Definition:** A family of extracellular proteins that act as signaling molecules and regulate embryonic patterning events during development. They are synthesized as inactive precursors with an N-terminal signaling domain linked to a C-terminal autoprocessing domain, which has a structure that resembles intein protein splicing domains.

**Synonyms:** - Hedgehog Family Protein - Hedgehog Protein