Fzd1

Summary

Gene Symbol: Fzd1
Description: frizzled class receptor 1
Alias: frizzled-1, Drosophila polarity gene (frizzled) homologue, Drosophila polarity gene homolog 1, frizzled family receptor 1, fz-1, rFz1
Species: rat
Products:     Fzd1

Top Publications

  1. Sheldahl L, Park M, Malbon C, Moon R. Protein kinase C is differentially stimulated by Wnt and Frizzled homologs in a G-protein-dependent manner. Curr Biol. 1999;9:695-8 pubmed
    ..of Rfz2 and Xwnt-5A resulted in translocation of PKC to the plasma membrane, whereas expression of rat Frizzled 1 (Rfz1), which activates a Wnt pathway using beta-catenin but not Ca2+ fluxes [5], did not...
  2. Chacón M, Varela Nallar L, Inestrosa N. Frizzled-1 is involved in the neuroprotective effect of Wnt3a against Abeta oligomers. J Cell Physiol. 2008;217:215-27 pubmed publisher
  3. Bafico A, Liu G, Yaniv A, Gazit A, Aaronson S. Novel mechanism of Wnt signalling inhibition mediated by Dickkopf-1 interaction with LRP6/Arrow. Nat Cell Biol. 2001;3:683-6 pubmed
  4. Roet K, Franssen E, de Bree F, Essing A, Zijlstra S, Fagoe N, et al. A multilevel screening strategy defines a molecular fingerprint of proregenerative olfactory ensheathing cells and identifies SCARB2, a protein that improves regenerative sprouting of injured sensory spinal axons. J Neurosci. 2013;33:11116-35 pubmed publisher
    ..Selective siRNA-mediated knockdown of 16 genes in OECs (ADAMTS1, BM385941, FZD1, GFRA1, LEPRE1, NCAM1, NID2, NRP1, MSLN, RND1, S100A9, SCARB2, SERPINI1, SERPINF1, TGFB2, and VAV1) significantly ..
  5. L Episcopo F, Serapide M, Tirolo C, Testa N, Caniglia S, Morale M, et al. A Wnt1 regulated Frizzled-1/?-Catenin signaling pathway as a candidate regulatory circuit controlling mesencephalic dopaminergic neuron-astrocyte crosstalk: Therapeutical relevance for neuron survival and neuroprotection. Mol Neurodegener. 2011;6:49 pubmed publisher
  6. Punchihewa C, Ferreira A, Cassell R, Rodrigues P, Fujii N. Sequence requirement and subtype specificity in the high-affinity interaction between human frizzled and dishevelled proteins. Protein Sci. 2009;18:994-1002 pubmed publisher
    ..Molecular modeling and circular dichroism studies indicated that the Fz peptides that bind to Dvl PDZ domain form specific conformations that are different from those of nonbinding peptides. ..
  7. Wang Z, Shu W, Lu M, Morrisey E. Wnt7b activates canonical signaling in epithelial and vascular smooth muscle cells through interactions with Fzd1, Fzd10, and LRP5. Mol Cell Biol. 2005;25:5022-30 pubmed
    ..Expression analysis of Fzds and LRP5/6 in the developing lung and vasculature showed that Fzd1, -4, -7, and -10 and LRP5/6 are expressed in tissue-specific patterns during lung development...
  8. Milovanovic T, Planutis K, Nguyen A, Marsh J, Lin F, Hope C, et al. Expression of Wnt genes and frizzled 1 and 2 receptors in normal breast epithelium and infiltrating breast carcinoma. Int J Oncol. 2004;25:1337-42 pubmed
    ..The expression of frizzled 1 and 2 receptors was found to be up-regulated in breast cancer...
  9. Zilberberg A, Yaniv A, Gazit A. The low density lipoprotein receptor-1, LRP1, interacts with the human frizzled-1 (HFz1) and down-regulates the canonical Wnt signaling pathway. J Biol Chem. 2004;279:17535-42 pubmed
    ..However, whereas some members of the LDLR family, such as LRP5/6, interact with Fz and serve as Wnt coreceptors, others negatively regulate Wnt signaling, presumably by sequestering Fz. ..

More Information

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  1. Kaykas A, Yang Snyder J, Heroux M, Shah K, Bouvier M, Moon R. Mutant Frizzled 4 associated with vitreoretinopathy traps wild-type Frizzled in the endoplasmic reticulum by oligomerization. Nat Cell Biol. 2004;6:52-8 pubmed
    ..These data support the hypothesis that oligomerization of mutant and wild-type Fz proteins occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum and may explain the genetic dominance of this FEVR allele. ..
  2. Gazit A, Yaniv A, Bafico A, Pramila T, Igarashi M, Kitajewski J, et al. Human frizzled 1 interacts with transforming Wnts to transduce a TCF dependent transcriptional response. Oncogene. 1999;18:5959-66 pubmed
    ..All of these findings provide strong evidence that Hfz1 is a functional partner for certain Wnts in inducing TCF dependent transcription. ..
  3. Liu T, Liu X, Wang H, Moon R, Malbon C. Activation of rat frizzled-1 promotes Wnt signaling and differentiation of mouse F9 teratocarcinoma cells via pathways that require Galpha(q) and Galpha(o) function. J Biol Chem. 1999;274:33539-44 pubmed
  4. Romaker D, Puetz M, Teschner S, Donauer J, Geyer M, Gerke P, et al. Increased expression of secreted frizzled-related protein 4 in polycystic kidneys. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2009;20:48-56 pubmed publisher
    ..Taken together, these observations suggest a potential role for SFRP4 in the pathogenesis of ADPKD...
  5. Varela Nallar L, Grabowski C, Alfaro I, Alvarez A, Inestrosa N. Role of the Wnt receptor Frizzled-1 in presynaptic differentiation and function. Neural Dev. 2009;4:41 pubmed publisher
  6. Terabayashi T, Funato Y, Fukuda M, Miki H. A coated vesicle-associated kinase of 104 kDa (CVAK104) induces lysosomal degradation of frizzled 5 (Fzd5). J Biol Chem. 2009;284:26716-24 pubmed publisher
    ..Interestingly, we find that CVAK104 also interacts with Fzd5 but not with Fzd1 or Fzd4...
  7. Verkaar F, van Rosmalen J, Smits J, Blankesteijn W, Zaman G. Stably overexpressed human Frizzled-2 signals through the beta-catenin pathway and does not activate Ca2+-mobilization in Human Embryonic Kidney 293 cells. Cell Signal. 2009;21:22-33 pubmed publisher
    ..In addition, we introduce beta-lactamase reporter gene technology as an alternative to luciferase-based reporters to measure Frizzled receptor modulation for the discovery of Frizzled receptor-interacting drugs. ..
  8. Boucherat O, Franco Montoya M, Thibault C, Incitti R, Chailley Heu B, Delacourt C, et al. Gene expression profiling in lung fibroblasts reveals new players in alveolarization. Physiol Genomics. 2007;32:128-41 pubmed
    ..retinoic acid receptor (RXR)-gamma and homeobox (Hox) a2, a4, and a5 and genes involved in Wnt signaling (Wnt5a, Fzd1, and Ndp); the latter group includes the extracellular matrix components Comp and Opn and the signal molecule Slfn4...
  9. González Sancho J, Brennan K, Castelo Soccio L, Brown A. Wnt proteins induce dishevelled phosphorylation via an LRP5/6- independent mechanism, irrespective of their ability to stabilize beta-catenin. Mol Cell Biol. 2004;24:4757-68 pubmed
    ..Our data also present Dvl phosphorylation as a general biochemical assay for Wnt protein function, including those Wnts that do not activate the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway. ..
  10. Kwon H, Lee H, Ji Y, Rubin J, Tomarev S. Myocilin is a modulator of Wnt signaling. Mol Cell Biol. 2009;29:2139-54 pubmed publisher
    ..Myocilin and Wnt proteins may perform redundant functions in the mammalian eye, since myocilin modulates Wnt signaling by interacting with components of this signaling pathway. ..
  11. Flahaut M, Meier R, Coulon A, Nardou K, Niggli F, Martinet D, et al. The Wnt receptor FZD1 mediates chemoresistance in neuroblastoma through activation of the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway. Oncogene. 2009;28:2245-56 pubmed publisher
    ..genes, although the highest overexpressed transcript in both cell lines was the frizzled-1 Wnt receptor (FZD1) gene, an essential component of the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway...
  12. Kulkarni N, Halladay D, Miles R, Gilbert L, Frolik C, Galvin R, et al. Effects of parathyroid hormone on Wnt signaling pathway in bone. J Cell Biochem. 2005;95:1178-90 pubmed
    ..Taken together, these results reveal a possible role for the Wnt signaling pathway in PTH actions in bone. ..
  13. Roman Roman S, Shi D, Stiot V, Hay E, Vayssière B, Garcia T, et al. Murine Frizzled-1 behaves as an antagonist of the canonical Wnt/beta-catenin signaling. J Biol Chem. 2004;279:5725-33 pubmed
    ..This is the first time that a Frizzled receptor has been reported to antagonize Wnt/beta-catenin. ..
  14. Bhat R, Stauffer B, Della Pietra A, Bodine P. Wnt3-frizzled 1 chimera as a model to study canonical Wnt signaling. J Cell Biochem. 2010;109:876-84 pubmed publisher
    ..In addition, this methodology can be utilized to identify inhibitors of either Wnt, Fz or interactors of the canonical pathway, which may have potential therapeutic value in the treatment of cancers and other diseases. ..
  15. Borello U, Berarducci B, Murphy P, Bajard L, Buffa V, Piccolo S, et al. The Wnt/beta-catenin pathway regulates Gli-mediated Myf5 expression during somitogenesis. Development. 2006;133:3723-32 pubmed
    ..Taken together, these results demonstrate that Myf5 is a direct target of Wnt/beta-catenin, and that its full activation requires a cooperative interaction between the canonical Wnt and the Shh/Gli pathways in muscle progenitor cells. ..
  16. Chan S, Karpf D, Fowlkes M, Hooks M, Bradley M, Vuong V, et al. Two homologs of the Drosophila polarity gene frizzled (fz) are widely expressed in mammalian tissues. J Biol Chem. 1992;267:25202-7 pubmed
    ..Fz-1 and Fz-2 may represent products of a gene family whose members serve as transducers or intercellular transmitters of signals required for normal morphogenesis and/or differentiated function in diverse tissues. ..