Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Islr regulates canonical Wnt signaling-mediated skeletal muscle regeneration by stabilizing Dishevelled-2 and preventing autophagy

  • Kuo Zhang,
  • Yuying Zhang,
  • Lijie Gu,
  • Miaomiao Lan,
  • Chuncheng Liu,
  • Meng Wang,
  • Yang Su,
  • Mengxu Ge,
  • Tongtong Wang,
  • Yingying Yu,
  • Chang Liu,
  • Lei Li,
  • Qiuyan Li,
  • Yaofeng Zhao,
  • Zhengquan Yu,
  • Fudi Wang,
  • Ning Li,
  • Qingyong Meng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07638-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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“Satellite cells are crucial for skeletal muscle regeneration. Here the authors show that immunoglobulin superfamily containing leucine-rich repeat (Islr) promotes skeletal muscle regeneration via a mechanism involving Dishevelled-2 stabilization in satellite cells and protection from autophagy.