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ArticleeLife2019

Molecular determinants in Frizzled, Reck, and Wnt7a for ligand-specific signaling in neurovascular development.

Chris Cho, Yanshu Wang, Philip M Smallwood, John Williams, Jeremy Nathans

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Article in eLife, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Stuck on you: Meninges cellular crosstalk in development.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2023
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  16. Structure of the Wnt-Frizzled-LRP6 initiation complex reveals the basis for coreceptor discrimination.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Chris ChoDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0929-6536
Yanshu WangDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States.
Philip M SmallwoodDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States.
John WilliamsDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States.
Jeremy NathansDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8106-5460
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

The control of retinal vascular development by Norrin and Frizzled4R01EY018637 · NEI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI NATHANS, JEREMY · 2008 to 2021
$5.5M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY018637NEI NIH HHS R01EY018637
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The molecular basis of Wnt-Frizzled specificity is a central question in developmental biology. Reck, a multi-domain and multi-functional glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein, specifically enhances beta-catenin signaling by Wnt7a and Wnt7b in cooperation with the 7-transmembrane protein Gpr124. Among amino acids that distinguish Wnt7a and Wnt7b from other Wnts, two clusters are essential for signaling in a Reck- and Gpr124-dependent manner. Both clusters are far from the site of Frizzled binding: one resides at the amino terminus and the second resides in a protruding loop. Within Reck, the fourth of five tandem repeats of an unusual domain with six-cysteines (the CC domain) is essential for Wnt7a stimulation: substitutions P256A and W261A in CC4 eliminate this activity without changing protein abundance or surface localization. Mouse embryos carrying

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Signal TransductionAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBase SequenceBrainEmbryo, MammalianFrizzled ReceptorsGPI-Linked ProteinsHEK293 CellsHumansLigandsLuciferasesMiceMutationNeovascularization, PhysiologicProtein DomainsFrizzled ReceptorsGPI-Linked ProteinsGPR124 protein, mouseLigandsLuciferasesReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledReck protein, mouseWnt7a protein, mouseWnt Proteinsblood-brain barriercanonical Wnt signalingCNS angiogenesisdevelopmental biologyGpr124mouseneuroscienceReckWnt7

Identifiers

PMID31225798
PMCPMC6588345
OpenAlexW2949245119

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