Suppression of nuclear Wnt signaling leads to stabilization of Rac1 isoforms

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 4850-4856

  Esufali, Susmita ^a,b   Charames, George S ^a,b   Bapat, Bharati ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dominant negative TCF4; Polybasic region; Protein degradation; Rac1; Rac1b; Wnt signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; PROTEASOME; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; RAC1 PROTEIN; RAC1B PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 34948822375     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.09.013     Document Type: Article

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