Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

A phospho-switch controls RNF43-mediated degradation of Wnt receptors to suppress tumorigenesis

  • Tadasuke Tsukiyama,
  • Juqi Zou,
  • Jihoon Kim,
  • Shohei Ogamino,
  • Yuki Shino,
  • Takamasa Masuda,
  • Alessandra Merenda,
  • Masaki Matsumoto,
  • Yoichiro Fujioka,
  • Tomonori Hirose,
  • Sayuri Terai,
  • Hidehisa Takahashi,
  • Tohru Ishitani,
  • Keiichi I. Nakayama,
  • Yusuke Ohba,
  • Bon-Kyoung Koo,
  • Shigetsugu Hatakeyama

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18257-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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RNF43 is frequently mutated in cancers and negatively regulates Wnt signalling. Here, the authors report that RNF43 phosphorylation at a serine triplet is required for the negative regulation of Wnt signalling and that the phosphorylation of RNF43 suppresses cancer-associated oncogenic RNF43 mutants.