Wnts as ligands: Processing, secretion and reception

Oncogene

Volumn 25, Issue 57, 2006, Pages 7461-7468

  Mikels, A J ^a   Nusse, R ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Receptors; Secretion; Signaling; Wnt

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LIPID; MORPHOGEN; WNT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANCER; CELL COMMUNICATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HOMEOBOX; HOMEOSTASIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; DROSOPHILA; HUMANS; LIGANDS; LIPIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WNT PROTEINS;

METAZOA;

EID: 33845352082     PISSN: 09509232     EISSN: 14765594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1210053     Document Type: Review

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