title: Control of beta-catenin stability: reconstitution of the cytoplasmic steps of the wnt pathway in Xenopus egg extracts.
abstract: Regulation of beta-catenin degradation by intracellular components of the wnt pathway was reconstituted in cytoplasmic extracts of Xenopus eggs and embryos. The ubiquitin-dependent beta-catenin degradation in extracts displays a biochemical requirement for axin, GSK3, and APC. Axin dramatically accelerates while dishevelled inhibits beta-catenin turnover. Through another domain, dishevelled recruits GBP/Frat1 to the APC-axin-GSK3 complex. Our results confirm and extend models in which inhibition of GSK3 has two synergistic effects: (1) reduction of APC phosphorylation and loss of affinity for beta-catenin and (2) reduction of beta-catenin phosphorylation and consequent loss of its affinity for the SCF ubiquitin ligase complex. Dishevelled thus stabilizes beta-catenin, which can dissociate from the APC/axin complex and participate in transcriptional activation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Salic
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mayer
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Kirschner
mesh_terms: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; D025601:Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Protein; D000818:Animals; D060466:Axin Protein; D017871:Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D002474:Cell-Free System; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000378:metabolism*; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D000072261:Dishevelled Proteins; D038362:Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D008954:Models, Biological; D010063:Ovum / Q000378:metabolism*; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011485:Protein Binding; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011506:Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D013347:Subcellular Fractions / Q000378:metabolism; D015534:Trans-Activators; D014452:Ubiquitins / Q000378:metabolism; D051153:Wnt Proteins; D014981:Xenopus / Q000196:embryology*; D029867:Xenopus Proteins; D029961:Zebrafish Proteins; D051176:beta Catenin
chemical_list: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; D025601:Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Protein; D060466:Axin Protein; C495266:CTNNB1 protein, Xenopus; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D000072261:Dishevelled Proteins; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; C112892:PIAS1 protein, Xenopus; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D011506:Proteins; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D015534:Trans-Activators; D014452:Ubiquitins; D051153:Wnt Proteins; D029867:Xenopus Proteins; D029961:Zebrafish Proteins; C555454:axin1 protein, Xenopus; D051176:beta Catenin; D017871:Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases; D038362:Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3