Looking beyond the Wnt pathway for the deep nature of β-catenin

EMBO Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 422-433

  Fagotto, François ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cell cell adhesion; nuclear transport; signal transduction

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CADHERIN; KARYOPHERIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ARM; PROTEIN HEAT; RAN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL ADHESION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84877583717     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2013.45     Document Type: Review

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