The planar cell polarity protein VANG-1/Vangl negatively regulates Wnt/beta-catenin signaling through a Dvl dependent mechanism

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Authors

MENTINK R.A. RELLA L. RADASZKIEWICZ Tomasz Witold GYBEĽ Tomáš BETIST M.C. BRYJA Vítězslav KORSWAGEN H.C.

Year of publication 2018
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source PLoS Genetics
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1007840
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007840
Keywords CANONICAL WNT PATHWAY; C. ELEGANS; NEUROBLAST MIGRATION; GENE-EXPRESSION; VANGL2; GASTRULATION; MUTATIONS; DIVISION; AXIS; PHOSPHORYLATION
Description Van Gogh-like (Vangl) and Prickle (Pk) are core components of the non-canonical Wnt planar cell polarity pathway that controls epithelial polarity and cell migration. Studies in vertebrate model systems have suggested that Vangl and Pk may also inhibit signaling through the canonical Wnt/beta-catenin pathway, but the functional significance of this potential crosstalk is unclear. In the nematode C. elegans, the Q neuroblasts and their descendants migrate in opposite directions along the anteroposterior body axis. The direction of these migrations is specified by Wnt signaling, with activation of canonical Wnt signaling driving posterior migration, and non-canonical Wnt signaling anterior migration. Here, we show that the Vangl ortholog VANG-1 influences the Wnt signaling response of the Q neuroblasts by negatively regulating canonical Wnt signaling. This inhibitory activity depends on a carboxyterminal PDZ binding motif in VANG-1 and the Dishevelled ortholog MIG-5, but is independent of the Pk ortholog PRKL-1. Moreover, using Vangl1 and Vangl2 double mutant cells, we show that a similar mechanism acts in mammalian cells. We conclude that cross-talk between VANG-1/Vangl and the canonical Wnt pathway is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism that ensures robust specification of Wnt signaling responses.
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