English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Zendy Open

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Insights

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Zendy Tools

Zendy Plus

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Biallelic mutation of theADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI(APC) gene is a hallmark of sporadic colorectal cancer and colorectal, duodenal and desmoid tumours that develop in familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) patients. The mutations affecting bothAPCalleles are interdependent, the position of the first APC mutation determining where the second hit will occur. This results in a complex pattern of mutation distribution in theAPCsequence that translates into the stabilization of β-catenin that in turn feeds the affected cells with a permanent mitogenic signal. We describe here a new APC domain, the β-catenin inhibitory domain (CID) of APC located between the second and third 20 amino acid repeats and therefore present in many truncated APC products found in human tumours. In truncated APC, the CID is absolutely necessary to down-regulate the transcriptional activity and the level of β-catenin, even when an axin/conductin binding site is present. The activity of the CID is dramatically reduced in several colon cancer cell lines and can be inhibited by shorter truncated APC lacking the CID. The CID is a direct target of the selective pressure acting on APC during tumourigenesis. It explains the interdependence of bothAPCmutations, not only in colorectal but also in duodenal and desmoid tumours.

human molecular genetics

β-Catenin degradation mediated by the CID domain of APC provides a model for the selection of APC mutations in colorectal, desmoid and duodenal tumours