text: SMRT (silencing mediator of retinoic acid and thyroid hormone receptor), also known as NCoR2, is an alternatively spliced SRC-1(steroid receptor coactivator-1). It is negatively and positively affected by MAPKKK (mitogen activated protein kinase kinase kinase) and casein kinase 2 phosphorylation, respectively. SMRT has two major mechanisms: first, similar to NCoR, SMRT also recruits class I histone deacetylases through SIN3 and directly binds to class II histone deacetylases. Second, it binds and sequesters components of the general transcriptional machinery, such as transcription factor II B.