WIF1

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Wnt inhibitory factor 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the WIF1 gene. WIF1 is a lipid-binding protein that binds to Wnt proteins and prevents them from triggering signalling.

Function

WNT proteins are extracellular signaling molecules involved in the control of embryonic development. This gene encodes a secreted protein, which binds WNT proteins and inhibits their activities. This protein contains a WNT inhibitory factor (WIF) domain and 5 epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like domains. It may be involved in mesoderm segmentation. This protein is found to be present in fish, amphibia and mammals.

Further reading

• Shepelev MV, Korobko EV, Korobko IV (2006). "[WIF1: perspectives of application in oncology]". Mol. Gen. Mikrobiol. Virusol. (4): 3–7. PMID 17094650.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Clark HF, Gurney AL, Abaya E, et al. (2003). "The secreted protein discovery initiative (SPDI), a large-scale effort to identify novel human secreted and transmembrane proteins: a bioinformatics assessment". Genome Res. 13 (10): 2265–70. doi:10.1101/gr.1293003. PMC 403697. PMID 12975309.
• Reguart N, He B, Xu Z, et al. (2004). "Cloning and characterization of the promoter of human Wnt inhibitory factor-1". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 323 (1): 229–34. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.08.075. PMID 15351726.
• Esufali S, Bapat B (2004). "Cross-talk between Rac1 GTPase and dysregulated Wnt signaling pathway leads to cellular redistribution of beta-catenin and TCF/LEF-mediated transcriptional activation". Oncogene. 23 (50): 8260–71. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1208007. PMID 15377999.
• Ohigashi T, Mizuno R, Nakashima J, et al. (2005). "Inhibition of Wnt signaling downregulates Akt activity and induces chemosensitivity in PTEN-mutated prostate cancer cells". Prostate. 62 (1): 61–8. doi:10.1002/pros.20117. PMID 15389810.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• Simon M, Grandage VL, Linch DC, Khwaja A (2005). "Constitutive activation of the Wnt/beta-catenin signalling pathway in acute myeloid leukaemia". Oncogene. 24 (14): 2410–20. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1208431. PMID 15735743.
• Taniguchi H, Yamamoto H, Hirata T, et al. (2005). "Frequent epigenetic inactivation of Wnt inhibitory factor-1 in human gastrointestinal cancers". Oncogene. 24 (53): 7946–52. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1208910. PMID 16007117.
• Lin YC, You L, Xu Z, et al. (2006). "Wnt signaling activation and WIF-1 silencing in nasopharyngeal cancer cell lines". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 341 (2): 635–40. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.12.220. PMID 16427602.
• Urakami S, Shiina H, Enokida H, et al. (2006). "Epigenetic inactivation of Wnt inhibitory factor-1 plays an important role in bladder cancer through aberrant canonical Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway". Clin. Cancer Res. 12 (2): 383–91. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-05-1344. PMID 16428476.
• Liepinsh E, Bányai L, Patthy L, Otting G (2006). "NMR structure of the WIF domain of the human Wnt-inhibitory factor-1". J. Mol. Biol. 357 (3): 942–50. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2006.01.047. PMID 16476441.
• Batra S, Shi Y, Kuchenbecker KM, et al. (2006). "Wnt inhibitory factor-1, a Wnt antagonist, is silenced by promoter hypermethylation in malignant pleural mesothelioma". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 342 (4): 1228–32. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.02.084. PMID 16516163.
• Chim CS, Chan WW, Pang A, Kwong YL (2006). "Preferential methylation of Wnt inhibitory factor-1 in acute promyelocytic leukemia: an independent poor prognostic factor". Leukemia. 20 (5): 907–9. doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404176. PMID 16525492.
• Urakami S, Shiina H, Enokida H, et al. (2006). "Combination analysis of hypermethylated Wnt-antagonist family genes as a novel epigenetic biomarker panel for bladder cancer detection". Clin. Cancer Res. 12 (7 Pt 1): 2109–16. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-05-2468. PMID 16609023.
• Milutinovic S, D'Alessio AC, Detich N, Szyf M (2007). "Valproate induces widespread epigenetic reprogramming which involves demethylation of specific genes". Carcinogenesis. 28 (3): 560–71. doi:10.1093/carcin/bgl167. PMID 17012225.
• Queimado L, Lopes CS, Reis AM (2007). "WIF1, an inhibitor of the Wnt pathway, is rearranged in salivary gland tumors". Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 46 (3): 215–25. doi:10.1002/gcc.20402. PMID 17171686.
• Chan SL, Cui Y, van Hasselt A, et al. (2007). "The tumor suppressor Wnt inhibitory factor 1 is frequently methylated in nasopharyngeal and esophageal carcinomas". Lab. Invest. 87 (7): 644–50. doi:10.1038/labinvest.3700547. PMID 17384664.
• Veeck J, Wild PJ, Fuchs T, et al. (2009). "Prognostic relevance of Wnt-inhibitory factor-1 (WIF1) and Dickkopf-3 (DKK3) promoter methylation in human breast cancer". BMC Cancer. 9: 1–13. doi:10.1186/1471-2407-9-217. PMC 2717119. PMID 19570204.