Helping Wingless take flight: How WNT proteins are secreted

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 331-336

  Hausmann, George ^a   Bänziger, Carla ^a   Basler, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; LIPOPROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN; WNT1 PROTEIN; WNT3A PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COLON CANCER; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EXOCYTOSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PALMITOYLATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; RETINOPATHY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; YEAST;

ANIMALS; ENDOSOMES; GOLGI APPARATUS; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 33947521050     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2141     Document Type: Review

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