Wnt/β-catenin signalling regulates cell proliferation by modulating the cell cycle and is negatively regulated by conductin/axin2/axil. We show that conductin levels peak at G2/M followed by a rapid decline during return to G1. In line with this, Wnt/β-catenin target genes are low at G2/M and high at G1/S, and β-catenin phosphorylation oscillates during the cell cycle in a conductin-dependent m...

Activated Wnt/beta-catenin signalling is a characteristic of many cancers and drives cell-cycle progression. Here, we report a mechanism linking Wnt/beta-catenin signalling to centrosome separation. We show that conductin/axin2, a negative regulator of beta-catenin, localizes at the centrosomes by binding to the centriole-associated component C-Nap1. Knockout or knockdown of conductin leads to ...

Axin and conductin (also known as axin2) are structurally related inhibitors of Wnt/β-catenin signalling that promote degradation of β-catenin. Whereas axin is constitutively expressed, conductin is a Wnt target gene implicated in Wnt negative-feedback regulation. Here, we show that axin and conductin differ in their functional interaction with the upstream Wnt pathway component Dvl. Conductin ...

A non-destructive replica method and a 3-D reconstruction algorithm are used to analyse the geometry and expansion of the shoot apex surface. Surface expansion in the central zone of the apex is slow and nearly isotropic while surface expansion in the peripheral zone is more intense and more anisotropic. Within the peripheral zone, the expansion rate, expansion anisotropy, and the direction of ...

Wnt/b-catenin signalling regulates cell proliferation by modulating the cell cycle and is negatively regulated by conductin/axin2/ axil. We show that conductin levels peak at G2/M followed by a rapid decline during return to G1. In line with this, Wnt/b-catenin target genes are low at G2/M and high at G1/S, and b-catenin phosphorylation oscillates during the cell cycle in a conductindependent m...

Aim: to reveal hereditary mutations in patients with adenomatous polyps of the gastrointestinal tract. Patients and methods: a retrospective cohort study included 8 tract (ranging from 4 several hundred). The APC, AXIN2, BMPR1A, BRCA2, CDH1, CHEK2, EPCAM, GALNT12, GREM1, MLH1, MLH3, MSH2, MSH3, MSH6, MutYH, NTHL1, PMS2, POLD1, POLE, SMAD4, STK11 genes were studied using new generation sequencin...

Axin2 loss, we are over-expressing a drug-stabilised b-catenin construct in wild-type skull osteoblast cultures, and in skull explant (calvarial) cultures. Using a drug-dependent b-catenin will allow us to investigate the threshold levels of Wnt signalling required for ossification and the stages at which the b-catenin signal is critical for osteoblast differentiation. Our findings from these i...