Evaluating the Role of Wnt Signal Transduction in Promoting the Development of the Heart
The Scientific World Journal, 2007 Wnts are a family of secreted signaling proteins that are encoded by 19 distinct genes in the vertebrate genome. These molecules initiate several signal transduction pathways: the canonical Wnt, Wnt/Ca2+, and Wnt/planar cell polarity pathways.
Leonard M. Eisenberg, Carol A. Eisenberg
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Use of a molecular genetic platform technology to produce human Wnt proteins reveals distinct local and distal signaling abilities. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Functional and mechanistic studies of Wnt signaling have been severely hindered by the inaccessibility of bioactive proteins. To overcome this long-standing barrier, we engineered and characterized a panel of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell lines with ...
Jennifer L Green +6 more
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Endogenous Wnt signalling in human embryonic stem cells generates an equilibrium of distinct lineage-specified progenitors. [PDF]
, 2012 The pluripotent nature of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) makes them convenient for deriving therapeutically relevant cells. Here we show using Wnt reporter hESC lines that the cells are heterogeneous with respect to endogenous Wnt signalling activity.
Ardehali, Reza +4 more
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Differential involvement of Wnt signaling in Bmp regulation of cancellous versus periosteal bone growth [PDF]
, 2017 Bone morphogenetic proteins (Bmp) are well-known to induce bone formation following chondrogenesis, but the direct role of Bmp signaling in the osteoblast lineage is not completely understood.
Bellido, Teresita +5 more
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, 2019 The Hedgehog (Hh) and Wnt/β-Catenin (Wnt) cascades are morphogen pathways whose pronounced influence on adult liver metabolism has been identified in recent years.
Aleithe, S. +20 more
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Ubiquitin ligase RNF146 regulates tankyrase and Axin to promote Wnt signaling. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Canonical Wnt signaling is controlled intracellularly by the level of β-catenin protein, which is dependent on Axin scaffolding of a complex that phosphorylates β-catenin to target it for ubiquitylation and proteasomal degradation.
Marinella G Callow +14 more
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, 2010 Motivation: Signaling pathways control a large variety of cellular processes. However, currently, even within the same database signaling pathways are often curated at different levels of detail.
Amberger +65 more
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Frizzled receptor 6 marks rare, highly tumourigenic stem-like cells in mouse and human neuroblastomas [PDF]
, 2011 Copyright © 2011 Cantilena et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and ...
Cantilena, S +6 more
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Current perspectives of the signaling pathways directing neural crest induction. [PDF]
, 2012 The neural crest is a migratory population of embryonic cells with a tremendous potential to differentiate and contribute to nearly every organ system in the adult body.
García-Castro, Martín I +1 more
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Deletion of Porcn in mice leads to multiple developmental defects and models human focal dermal hypoplasia (Goltz syndrome). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Focal Dermal Hypoplasia (FDH) is a genetic disorder characterized by developmental defects in skin, skeleton and ectodermal appendages. FDH is caused by dominant loss-of-function mutations in X-linked PORCN.
Wei Liu +7 more
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