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WNT Signaling Pathway
Homo sapiens
Signaling Pathway
The Wnt signaling pathway is an ancient and evolutionarily conserved pathway that regulates crucial aspects of cell fate determination, cell migration, cell polarity, neural patterning and organogenesis during embryonic development. The role of Wnt signaling in carcinogenesis has most prominently been described for colorectal cancer, but aberrant Wnt signaling is observed in many more cancer entities.The Wnts are secreted glycoproteins and comprise a large family of nineteen proteins in humans hinting to a daunting complexity of signaling regulation, function and biological output. To date major signaling branches downstream of the Fz receptor have been identified including a canonical or Wnt/β-catenin dependent pathway and the non-canonical or β-catenin-independent pathway which can be further divided into the Planar Cell Polarity and the Wnt/Ca2+ pathways, and these branches are being actively dissected at the molecular and biochemical levels.
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WNT Signaling Pathway References
Komiya Y, Habas R: Wnt signal transduction pathways. Organogenesis. 2008 Apr;4(2):68-75.
Pubmed: 19279717
Zhan T, Rindtorff N, Boutros M: Wnt signaling in cancer. Oncogene. 2017 Mar;36(11):1461-1473. doi: 10.1038/onc.2016.304. Epub 2016 Sep 12.
Pubmed: 27617575
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