Protein evolution: structure‐function relationships of the oncogene betacatenin in the evolution of multicellular animals

SQ Schneider, JR Finnerty… - … Zoology Part B …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… the different regions of the beta-catenin proteins. Projecting amino acid … beta-catenin, we
identified specific domains that exhibit loss and gain of selective constraints during beta catenin

Generating cellular diversity and spatial form: Wnt signaling and the evolution of multicellular animals

KM Loh, R van Amerongen, R Nusse - Developmental cell, 2016 - cell.com
… There were multiple prerequisites to the evolution of multicellular animal life, including the
generation of multiple cell fates (“cellular diversity”) and their patterned spatial arrangement (“…

Developmental signalling and emergence of animal multicellularity

M Adamska - Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellular Life: Principles …, 2015 - Springer
… genes is promoted when beta-catenin, the key mediator of … and GSK3 kinases to phosphorylate
beta-catenin, marking it for … -phosphorylated beta-catenin can translocate to the nucleus. …

A polarized epithelium organized by β-and α-catenin predates cadherin and metazoan origins

DJ Dickinson, WJ Nelson, WI Weis - Science, 2011 - science.org
… bind β-catenin (7), are found in all multicellular animals, including … the catenins is unknown,
and thus how the cadherin-catenin … discoideum undergoes multicellular morphogenesis in …

Identification of a neural α-catenin as a key regulator of cadherin function and multicellular organization

S Hirano, N Kimoto, Y Shimoyama, S Hirohashi… - Cell, 1992 - cell.com
catenin, aN-catenin. Experiments in which an a-catenin-deficient cell line was transfected with
aN-catenin … obtained from about 25 brains were injected per animal. Threedaysafterthelast …

The many faces and functions of βcatenin

T Valenta, G Hausmann, K Basler - The EMBO journal, 2012 - embopress.org
… In animals (metazoa), β‐catenin plays a dual role as a signalling component of canonical …
that is essential for the subsequent multicellular phase of development. Even though …

Multiple functions of α-catenin beyond cell adhesion regulation

M Takeichi - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2018 - Elsevier
… of catenins, the CCC works to firmly connect cells together to establish multicellular tissues.
… Classical cadherins have been detected only in multicellular animals [35]. However, a β-…

Multitasking β-catenin: from adhesion and transcription to RNA regulation

J Hur, S Jeong - Animal Cells and Systems, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
… all taxa of metazoan animals. Molecular evolution analysis of β-catenin genes in metazoan
… the critical roles of β-catenin in multicellular animals, highlighting the importance of the Arm …

Wnt/β-catenin signaling in tissue self-organization

KW Pond, K Doubrovinski, CA Thorne - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
… The ability of a single cell to give rise to the complexity of a multicellular organism has …
anterior development, as β-catenin knockdown animals which are damaged form multiple head …

Adherens junctions and β-catenin-mediated cell signalling in a non-metazoan organism

MJ Grimson, JC Coates, JP Reynolds, M Shipman… - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
… the animal kingdom shows that the dual role of β-catenin in … signal transduction functions
of β-catenin, and the existence of … β-catenin may have been a prerequisite for all multicellular