New insights into the regulation of Axin function in canonical Wnt signaling pathway

Protein and Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 186-193

  Song, Xiaomin ^a   Wang, Sheng ^a   Li, Lin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

auto inhibition; Axin; polymerization; post transcriptional modification; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

AXIN; BETA CATENIN; DISHEVELLED PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP A2 PROTEIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 1; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 5; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 205; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME E2; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

COLORECTAL CANCER; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUMOYLATION; UBIQUITINATION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ANIMALS; AXIN PROTEIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84898597837     PISSN: 1674800X     EISSN: 16748018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13238-014-0019-2     Document Type: Review

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