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Roles of N-glycosylation and lipidation in Wg secretion and signaling.
Developmental biology - 1 Apr 2012
Tang Xiaofang, Wu Yihui, Belenkaya Tatyana Y, Huang Qinzhu, Ray Lorraine, Qu Jia, Lin Xinhua
Abstract excerpt
Wnt members act as morphogens essential for embryonic patterning and adult homeostasis. Currently, it is still unclear how Wnt secretion and its gradient formation are regulated. In this study, we examined the roles of N-glycosylation and lipidation/acylation in regulating the activities of Wingless (Wg), the main Drosophila Wnt member. We show that Wg mutant devoid of all the N-glycosylations exhibits no major...
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