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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-2-4
pubmed:abstractText
The Hedgehog (Hh) family of morphogenetic proteins has important instructional roles in metazoan development and human diseases. Lipid modified Hh is able to migrate to and program cells far away from its site of production despite being associated with membranes. To investigate the Hh spreading mechanism, we characterized Shifted (Shf) as a component in the Drosophila Hh pathway. We show that Shf is the ortholog of the human Wnt inhibitory factor (WIF), a secreted antagonist of the Wingless pathway. In contrast, Shf is required for Hh stability and for lipid-modified Hh diffusion. Shf colocalizes with Hh in the extracellular matrix and interacts with the heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPG), leading us to suggest that Shf could provide HSPG specificity for Hh. We also show that human WIF inhibits Wg signaling in Drosophila without affecting the Hh pathway, indicating that different WIF family members might have divergent functions in each pathway.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Carrier Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Drosophila Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Hedgehog Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Intercellular Signaling Peptides..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Intracellular Signaling Peptides..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Phosphoproteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Repressor Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/SHF protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/WIF1 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Wnt Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/hedgehog protein, Drosophila
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1534-5807
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
241-53
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Animals, Genetically Modified, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Diffusion, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Drosophila, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Drosophila Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Epistasis, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Female, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Genes, Insect, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Hedgehog Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Lipid Metabolism, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Phosphoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Repressor Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Species Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Wing, pubmed-meshheading:15691765-Wnt Proteins
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
The Drosophila ortholog of the human Wnt inhibitor factor Shifted controls the diffusion of lipid-modified Hedgehog.
pubmed:affiliation
Centro de Biología Molecular, Severo Ochoa, C.S.I.C, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid, Spain.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't