A molecular mechanism for Wnt ligand-specific signaling
(2018) Science — Vol. 361, n° 6403, p. eaat1178 (2018)
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Eubelen, Marie 
Bostaille, Naguissa Köhler, Melanie Vanhollebeke, Benoit
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- Wnt signaling is key to many developmental, physiological and disease processes, in which cells seem able to discriminate between multiple Wnt ligands. This selective Wnt recognition or “decoding” capacity has remained enigmatic as Wnt/Frizzled interactions are largely incompatible with mono-specific recognition. Gpr124 and Reck enable brain endothelial cells to selectively respond to Wnt7. We show that Reck binds with low micromolar affinity to the intrinsically disordered linker region of Wnt7. Availability of Reck-bound Wnt7 for Frizzled signaling relies on the interaction between Gpr124 and Dishevelled. By polymerization, Dishevelled recruits Gpr124 and the associated Reck-bound Wnt7 into dynamic Wnt/Frizzled/Lrp5/6 signalosomes, resulting in increased local concentrations of Wnt7 available for Frizzled signaling. This work provides mechanistic insights into the Wnt decoding capacities of vertebrate cells and unravels structural determinants of the functional diversification of Wnt family members.
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Eubelen, M., Bostaille, N., Cabochette, P., Gauquier, A., Tebabi, P., Dumitru, A.-C., Köhler, M., Gut, P., Alsteens, D., Stainier, D. Y. R., Garcia-Pino, A., & Vanhollebeke, B. (2018). A molecular mechanism for Wnt ligand-specific signaling. Science, 361(6403), eaat1178. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat1178 (Original work published 2018)