Multiprotein complexes governing Wnt signal transduction.

Curr Opin Cell Biol

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. Electronic address:

Published: April 2018

Three multiprotein complexes have key roles in transducing Wnt signals from the plasma membrane to the cell nucleus - the β-catenin destruction complex, or Axin degradasome, which targets the Wnt effector β-catenin for proteasomal degradation in the absence of Wnt; the Wnt signalosome, assembled by polymerization of Dishevelled upon Wnt engaging its receptors, to inactivate the Axin degradasome, which allows β-catenin to accumulate; and the Wnt enhanceosome which enables β-catenin to gain access to target genes, to relieve their transcriptional repression by Groucho/TLE. This review focuses on recent advances that have highlighted mechanistic principles governing the assembly and function of these complexes.

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