International Max-Planck Research School for Biology and Computation 1 article published in JoVE Biochemistry Visualization and Quantification of TGFβ/BMP/SMAD Signaling under Different Fluid Shear Stress Conditions using Proximity-Ligation-Assay Paul-Lennard Mendez1,2, Leon Obendorf1, Petra Knaus1 1Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, 2International Max-Planck Research School for Biology and Computation Here, we establish a protocol to simultaneously visualize and analyze multiple SMAD complexes using proximity ligation assay (PLA) in endothelial cells exposed to pathological and physiological fluid shear stress conditions.