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Wnts in this functional class activate the canonical Wnt/beta-catenin pathway (Wnt-1, -3A, and -8).
Mis-regulation of Wnt signaling leads to the development of several human cancers, including colon carcinomas and melanoma [ 1 ] . Canonical Wnt signaling initiates in the binding of a Wnt ligand to its cell surface receptor, members of the frizzled gene family, along with the co-receptor LRP5/6 [ 2 3 ] , leading to changes in the activities of cytoplasmic effectors resulting in the stabilization of beta-catenin protein.
Interestingly, Wnt-5a down-regulated mesothelin expression, perhaps through antagonism of endogenous Wnt/beta-catenin signaling.
A recent report demonstrated that Wnt-5a and Rfz-2 can induce the nuclear localization of the transcription factor NF-AT [ 14 ] . Their results show that NF-AT is a downstream target of the Wnt/Ca 2+pathway and antagonizes the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway in Xenopus embryos.
LiCl has previously been shown to mimic activation of Wnt-1 signaling by stabilizing beta-catenin through its inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK-3β), a kinase that phosphorylates beta-catenin and promotes its degradation via the ubiquitin proteasome pathway [ 39 ] . C57mg cells treated with LiCl exhibited elevated levels of mesothelin but not SL-1 (Figure 2, left panel).