A New Look at TCF and Beta-catenin Through the Lens of a Divergent C. Elegans Wnt Pathway

Overview

Journal Dev Cell

Publisher Cell Press

Specialties Cell Biology
Reproductive Medicine

Date 2009 Jul 22

PMID 19619489

Citations 53

Authors

Bryan T Phillips

Judith Kimble

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Abstract

The canonical Wnt/beta-catenin pathway is extensively characterized, broadly conserved, and clinically important. In this review, we describe the C. elegans Wnt/beta-catenin asymmetry pathway and suggest that some of its unusual features may have important implications for the canonical Wnt/beta-catenin pathway.

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