ArticleMolecular pharmacology2016
WNT Stimulation Dissociates a Frizzled 4 Inactive-State Complex with Gα12/13.
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- GαFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Review
- Hsa_circ_0004712 downregulation attenuates ovarian cancer malignant development by targeting the miR-331-3p/FZD4 pathway.Journal of ovarian research · 2021Article
- Expression and prognostic impact of FZDs in pancreatic adenocarcinoma.BMC gastroenterology · 2021Article
- Employing Genetically Encoded, Biophysical Sensors to Understand WNT/Frizzled Interaction and Receptor Complex Activation.Handbook of experimental pharmacology · 2021Article
- G Protein-Coupled receptors and heterotrimeric G proteins as cancer drivers.FEBS letters · 2020Review
- eGFP-tagged Wnt-3a enables functional analysis of Wnt trafficking and signaling and kinetic assessment of Wnt binding to full-length Frizzled.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2020Article
- WNT-3A-induced β-catenin signaling does not require signaling through heterotrimeric G proteins.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2019Article
- Receptor selectivity between the G proteins GαFASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2019Article
- A conserved molecular switch in Class F receptors regulates receptor activation and pathway selection.Nature communications · 2019Article
- GFrontiers in aging neuroscience · 2019Review
- Dishevelled enables casein kinase 1-mediated phosphorylation of Frizzled 6 required for cell membrane localization.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2018Article
- Functional dissection of the N-terminal extracellular domains of Frizzled 6 reveals their roles for receptor localization and Dishevelled recruitment.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2018Article
- Molecular genetics and targeted therapy of WNT-related human diseases (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2017Article
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Abstract
Frizzleds (FZDs) are unconventional G protein-coupled receptors that belong to the class Frizzled. They are bound and activated by the Wingless/Int-1 lipoglycoprotein (WNT) family of secreted lipoglycoproteins. To date, mechanisms of signal initiation and FZD-G protein coupling remain poorly understood. Previously, we showed that FZD6 assembles with Gαi1/Gαq (but not with Gαs, Gαo and Ga12/13), and that these inactive-state complexes are dissociated by WNTs and regulated by the phosphoprotein Dishevelled (DVL). Here, we investigated the inactive-state assembly of heterotrimeric G proteins with FZD4, a receptor important in retinal vascular development and frequently mutated in Norrie disease or familial exudative vitreoretinopathy. Live-cell imaging experiments using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching show that human FZD4 assembles-in a DVL-independent manner-with Gα12/13 but not representatives of other heterotrimeric G protein subfamilies, such as Gαi1, Gαo, Gαs, and Gαq The FZD4-G protein complex dissociates upon stimulation with WNT-3A, WNT-5A, WNT-7A, and WNT-10B. In addition, WNT-induced dynamic mass redistribution changes in untransfected and, even more so, in FZD4 green fluorescent protein-transfected cells depend on Gα12/13 Furthermore, expression of FZD4 and Gα12 or Gα13 in human embryonic kidney 293 cells induces WNT-dependent membrane recruitment of p115-RHOGEF (RHO guanine nucleotide exchange factor, molecular weight 115 kDa), a direct target of Gα12/13 signaling, underlining the functionality of an FZD4-Gα12/13-RHO signaling axis. In summary, Gα12/13-mediated WNT/FZD4 signaling through p115-RHOGEF offers an intriguing and previously unappreciated mechanistic link of FZD4 signaling to cytoskeletal rearrangements and RHO signaling with implications for the regulation of angiogenesis during embryonic and tumor development.
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