Deconvolving the roles of Wnt ligands and receptors in sensing and amplification

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tan, Rui Zhen ^a,d   Ji, Ni ^b   Mentink, Remco A ^c   Korswagen, Hendrik C ^c   Van Oudenaarden, Alexander ^b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; cell polarity; phenomenological modeling; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; WNT PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EGL 20 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; EGL-20 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; GLYCOPROTEIN; LAG 2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; LAG-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; LIN 31 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; LIN-31 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MOM 5 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MOM-5 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAUGHTER CELL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ANIMALS; ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; BETA CATENIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL POLARITY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, WNT; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84872726014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2012.64     Document Type: Article

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