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Plasmid DNA Preparation | … Flag/HA/His-tagged β-catenin, (His-tagged) NEDD8, Flag tagged β-TrCP1 and Flag-tagged β-TrCP2 plasmids were synthesized by Genscript Biotechnology Inc. based on a mEmerald-… | Get A Quote |
β-Catenin is a central component in the Wnt signaling pathway; its degradation has been tightly connected to ubiquitylation, but it is rarely examined by loss-of-function assays. Here we observe that endogenous β-catenin is not stabilized upon ubiquitylation depletion by a ubiquitylation inhibitor, TAK-243. We demonstrate that N-terminal phosphorylated β-catenin is quickly and strongly stabilized by a specific neddylation inhibitor, MLN4924, in all examined cell types, and that β-catenin and TCF4 interaction is strongly enhanced by inhibition of neddylation but not ubiquitylation. We also confirm that the E3 ligase β-TrCP2, but not β-TrCP1, is associated with neddylation and destruction of β-catenin. GSK... More