When Wnts antagonize Wnts

نویسندگان

Gilbert Weidinger

Randall T. Moon

چکیده

Secreted Wnt ligands appear to activate a variety of signaling pathways. Two papers in this issue now present genetic evidence that "noncanonical" Wnt signaling inhibits the "canonical" Wnt/beta-catenin pathway. Westfall et al. (2003a) show that zebrafish embryos lacking maternal Wnt-5 function are dorsalized due to ectopic activation of beta-catenin, whereas Topol et al. (2003) report that chondrogenesis in the distal mouse limb bud depends on inhibition of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling by a paralogue of Wnt-5. These studies present the first genetic confirmation of the previous hypothesis that vertebrate Wnt signaling pathways can act in an antagonistic manner.

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