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Letting go: Dishevelled phase separation recruits Axin to stabilize β-catenin.

Rachel L BabcockKevin Pruitt
Published in: The Journal of cell biology (2022)
Dishevelled exerts a molecular force that guides cell fate, but how it does so remains enigmatic. In this issue, Kang et al. (2022. J. Cell Biol.https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202205069) show Dvl2 undergoes liquid-liquid phase separation to stabilize β-catenin by pulling Axin into its biomolecular condensate at the plasma membrane.
Keyphrases
  • cell fate
  • epithelial mesenchymal transition
  • cell proliferation
  • single molecule
  • single cell
  • cell therapy
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  • signaling pathway
  • mesenchymal stem cells