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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 405, Issue 3, Pages 773-786Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.11.013
Keywords
Wnt pathway; natively unfolded; scaffold; Axin; beta-catenin degradation
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- Dutch Cancer Society [UU 2006-3508]
- European Research Council [242958, 203413]
- Utrecht University
- European Union
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO
- European Research Council (ERC) [242958, 203413] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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The Wnt pathway tumor-suppressor protein Axin coordinates the formation of a critical multiprotein destruction complex that serves to downregulate beta-catenin protein levels, thereby preventing target gene activation. Given the lack of structural information on some of the major functional parts of Axin, it remains unresolved how the recruitment and positioning of Wnt pathway kinases, such as glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta, are coordinated to bring about beta-catenin phosphorylation. Using various biochemical and biophysical methods, we demonstrate here that the central region of Axin that is implicated in binding glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta and beta-catenin is natively unfolded. Our results support a model in which the unfolded nature of these critical scaffolding regions in Axin facilitates dynamic interactions with a kinase and its substrate, which in turn act upon each other. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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