The complex world of WNT receptor signalling

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 767-779

  Niehrs, Christof ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; BETA CATENIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; HEPARAN SULFATE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 5; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEOGLYCAN; R SPONDIN; RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE LIKE ORPHAN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT5A PROTEIN;

CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; HEPARAN SULFATE PROTEOGLYCANS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE-LIKE ORPHAN RECEPTORS; RECEPTORS, WNT; THROMBOSPONDINS; WNT PROTEINS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84870252814     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3470     Document Type: Review

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