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Wnt–Notch signalling crosstalk in development and disease

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The Notch and Wnt pathways are two of only a handful of highly conserved signalling pathways that control cell-fate decisions during animal development (Pires-daSilva and Sommer in Nat Rev Genet 4: 39–49, 2003). These two pathways are required together to regulate many aspects of metazoan development, ranging from germ layer patterning in sea urchins (Peter and Davidson in Nature 474: 635–639, 2011) to the formation and patterning of the fly wing (Axelrod et al in Science 271:1826–1832, 1996; Micchelli et al in Development 124:1485–1495, 1997; Rulifson et al in Nature 384:72–74, 1996), the spacing of the ciliated cells in the epidermis of frog embryos (Collu et al in Development 139:4405–4415, 2012) and the maintenance and turnover of the skin, gut lining and mammary gland in mammals (Clayton et al in Nature 446:185–189, 2007; Clevers in Cell 154:274–284, 2013; Doupe et al in Dev Cell 18:317–323, 2010; Lim et al in Science 342:1226–1230, 2013; Lowell et al in Curr Biol 10:491–500, 2000; van et al in Nature 435:959–963, 2005; Yin et al in Nat Methods 11:106–112, 2013). In addition, many diseases, including several cancers, are caused by aberrant signalling through the two pathways (Bolós et al in Endocr Rev 28: 339–363, 2007; Clevers in Cell 127: 469–480, 2006). In this review, we will outline the two signalling pathways, describe the different points of interaction between them, and cover how these interactions influence development and disease.

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Collu, G.M., Hidalgo-Sastre, A. & Brennan, K. Wnt–Notch signalling crosstalk in development and disease. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 71, 3553–3567 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-014-1644-x

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