Axin, an inhibitor of the Wnt signalling pathway, interacts with β- catenin, GSK-3β and APC and reduces the β-catenin level

Genes to Cells

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 395-403

  Nakamura, Tsutomu ^a,b   Hamada, Fumihiko ^a,c   Ishidate, Takao ^a,b   Anai, Ken Ichi ^b   Kawahara, Kohichi ^a   Toyoshima, Kumao ^d   Akiyama, Tetsu ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CASEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; COLON POLYPOSIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0031813650     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1998.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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