Wnt proteins are lipid-modified and can act as stem cell growth factors

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6938, 2003, Pages 448-452

  Willert, Karl ^a   Brown, Jeffrey D ^a   Danenberg, Esther ^a   Duncan, Andrew W ^b   Weissman, Irving L ^a   Reya, Tannishtha ^b   Yates III, John R ^c   Nusse, Roel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TISSUE;

STEM CELLS;

PROTEINS;

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; GROWTH FACTOR; PALMITIC ACID; WNT PROTEIN;

BIOLOGY; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PALMITOYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; L CELLS (CELL LINE); LIPID METABOLISM; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PALMITIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLUBILITY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 0037737726     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01611     Document Type: Article

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