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EMBO JOURNAL
Volume 29, Issue 7, Pages 1192-1204Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2010.26
Keywords
APC; dishevelled; focal adhesion; migration; Wnt5a
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- Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture, Japan
- The Uehara Memorial Foundation
- Takeda Science Foundation
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Wnt5a is a representative ligand that activates the Wnt/beta-catenin-independent pathway, resulting in the regulation of cell adhesion, migration, and polarity, but its molecular mechanism is poorly understood. This report shows that Dishevelled (Dvl) binds to adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene product, and this binding is enhanced by Wnt5a. Dvl was involved in the stabilization of the plus end dynamics of microtubules as well as APC. Frizzled2 (Fz2) was present with Wnt5a at the leading edge of migrating cells and formed a complex with APC through Dvl. Fz2 also interacted with integrins at the leading edge, and Dvl and APC associated with and activated focal adhesion kinase and paxillin. The binding of APC to Dvl enhanced the localization of paxillin to the leading edge and was involved in Wnt5a-dependent focal adhesion turnover. Furthermore, this new Wnt5a signalling pathway was important for the epithelial morphogenesis in the three-dimensional culture. These results suggest that the functional and physical interaction of Dvl and APC is involved in Wnt5a/Fz2-dependent focal adhesion dynamics during cell migration and epithelial morphogenesis. The EMBO Journal (2010) 29, 1192-1204. doi:10.1038/emboj.2010.26; Published online 11 March 2010
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