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Citation Akong, K., Grevengoed, E.E., Price, M.H., McCartney, B.M., Hayden, M.A., DeNofrio, J.C., Peifer, M. (2002). Drosophila APC2 and APC1 play overlapping roles in wingless signaling in the embryo and imaginal discs.  Dev. Biol. 250(1): 91--100. (Export to RIS)
FlyBase ID FBrf0151886
Publication Type Research paper
PubMed ID 12297098
PubMed Abstract The regulation of signal transduction plays a key role in cell fate choices, and its disregulation contributes to oncogenesis. This duality is exemplified by the tumor suppressor APC. Originally identified for its role in colon tumors, APC family members were subsequently shown to negatively regulate Wnt signaling in both development and disease. The analysis of the normal roles of APC proteins is complicated by the presence of two APC family members in flies and mice. Previous work demonstrated that, in some tissues, single mutations in each gene have no effect, raising the question of whether there is functional overlap between the two APCs or whether APC-independent mechanisms of Wnt regulation exist. We addressed this by eliminating the function of both Drosophila APC genes simultaneously. We find that APC1 and APC2 play overlapping roles in regulating Wingless signaling in the embryonic epidermis and the imaginal discs. Surprisingly, APC1 function in embryos occurs at levels of expression nearly too low to detect. Further, the overlapping functions exist despite striking differences in the intracellular localization of the two APC family members.
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Abbreviation Dev. Biol.
Title Developmental Biology
Publication Year 1959-
ISBN/ISSN 0012-1606
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