Nature Communications (May 2016)

Wnt pathway activation by ADP-ribosylation

  • Eungi Yang,
  • Ofelia Tacchelly-Benites,
  • Zhenghan Wang,
  • Michael P. Randall,
  • Ai Tian,
  • Hassina Benchabane,
  • Sarah Freemantle,
  • Claudio Pikielny,
  • Nicholas S. Tolwinski,
  • Ethan Lee,
  • Yashi Ahmed

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11430
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Wnt/β-catenin signalling directs several developmental processes and is aberrantly activated in several cancers. Here the authors implicate Tankyrase—previously shown to target the scaffolding protein Axin for proteolysis—in early Wnt signalling by promoting the interaction between Axin and the Wnt co-receptor LRP6.