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SCIENCE
Volume 338, Issue 6112, Pages 1337-1340Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1228734
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- Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
- Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Welcome Fund
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Despite more than 30 years of work on the Wnt signaling pathway, the basic mechanism of how the extracellular Wnt signal increases the intracellular concentration of beta-catenin is still contentious. Circumventing much of the detailed biochemistry, we used basic principles of chemical kinetics coupled with quantitative measurements to define the reactions on beta-catenin directly affected by the Wnt signal. We conclude that the core signal transduction mechanism is relatively simple, with only two regulated phosphorylation steps. Their partial inhibition gives rise to the full dynamics of the response and subsequently maintains a steady state in which the concentration of beta-catenin is increased.
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