Regulating β-Catenin Nuclear Import with the Small GTPase Rap.

Dev Cell

Cellular Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan. Electronic address:

Published: January 2018

β-catenin acts as a key mediator of Wnt signaling by migrating into the nucleus. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Griffin et al. (2018) propose that facilitated nuclear import of β-catenin is actively regulated by the nuclear small GTPase Rap through its guanine nucleotide exchange factor, RAPGEF5.

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