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2008

Komiya, Y and Habas, R. 2008. Wnt Signal Transduction Pathways. Organogenesis. In Press.

Liu W, Sato A, Khadka D, Bharti R, Diaz H, Runnels LW, Habas R. Mechanism of activation of the Formin protein Daam1. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2008 Jan 8;105(1):210-5.

2007

Semenov MV, Habas R, Macdonald BT, He X. SnapShot: Noncanonical Wnt Signaling Pathways. Cell. 2007 Dec 28;131(7):1378.

Raymond Habas and Xi He 2007. Cell signaling: moving to a wnt-rap. Curr Biol. 2007 Jun 19;17(12):R474-7.

Harada Y, Yokota C, Habas R, Slusarski DC, He X. Retinoic acid-inducible G protein-coupled receptors bind to frizzled receptors and may activate non-canonical Wnt signaling. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2007 Jul 13;358(4):968-975.

2006

Sato, A. Khadka, D. Liu, W. Bharti, R. Runnels, W L. Dawid, B I. and Habas, R. 2006. Profilin is an effector for Daam1 in non-canonical Wnt signaling and is required for vertebrate gastrulation. Development 2006 Nov;133(21):4219-31

Habas, R. 2006. Canonical Wnt signaling: an unexpected new player. Developmental Cell. 11: 138-139.

Su, L.T., Agapito, M.A., Li, M. T. N., Simonson, W., Huttenlocher, A., Habas, R., Yue, L., and Runnels,L.W. 2006. Trpm7 regulates cell adhesion by controlling the calcium dependent protease calpain. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281: 11260-70.

Habas, R and He, X. 2006. Function of the Rho family of GTPases during embryogenesis. In “Analysis of Growth Factor Signaling in Embryos”, Editors: Amy Sater and Malcolm Whitman. CRC Press.

Habas, R and He, X. 2006. Activation of Rho and Rac by Wnt/frizzled signaling. Methods in Enzymology. 406: 500-11.

Chen, C., Ware, S., Sato, A., Houston-Hawkins D.E., Habas, R., Matzuk, M.M., Shen, M.M., and Brown, C.W. 2006. The Vg1-related protein GDF3 acts in a Nodal signaling pathway in the pre-gastrulation mouse embryo. Development. 133: 319-29

2005

Zeng, X., Tamai, K., Doble, B., Li, S., Huang, H., Habas, R., Okamura, H., Woodgett, J., and He, X. 2005. A dual-kinase mechanism for Wnt coreceptor phosphorylation and activation. Nature. 438: 873-7.

Wallingford, J.B., and Habas, R. 2005. The developmental biology of Dishevelled, an enigmatic protein governing both cell fate and cell polarity. Development. 132: 4421-4436.

Park, T.J., Gray, R.S., Sato, A., Habas, R., and Wallingford, J.B. 2005. Localization and signaling properties of Dishevelled in developing vertebrate embryos. Current Biology. 15(11): 1039-44.

Habas, R., and Dawid, I.B. 2005. Dishevelled and Wnt signaling. Is the nucleus the final frontier? J. Bio. (1): 2.

2004

Nakaya, M., Habas, R., Biris, K., Dunty, W.C., Kato, Y., He, X., and Yamaguchi, T.P. 2004. Identification and comparative expression analyses of Daam genes in mouse and Xenopus. Mechanisms of Development-Gene Expr Patterns. 5(1): 97-105.

Lee, H., Habas, R., and Abate-Shen, C. 2004. Histone H1b is required for inhibition of myogenesis and transcriptional repression by the Msx1 homeoprotein. Science 304: 1675-1678.

Tsang M, Maegawa S, Kiang A, Habas R, Weinberg E and Dawid IB. 2004. A role for MKP3 in axial patterning of the zebrafish embryo. Development 131: 2769-79.

2003

Hukriede, N.A., Tsang, T.E., Habas, R., Khoo, P., Weeks, D.L, Tam, P.P.L. and Dawid, I.B. 2003.Conserved Requirement of Lim1 Function for Cell Movements during Gastrulation. Developmental Cell 4: 83-94.

Habas, R., Dawid, I.B. and He, X. 2003. Co-activation of Rac and Rho by Wnt/Frizzled Signaling is required for Vertebrate Gastrulation. Genes and Development 17: 295-309.

2002

Capelluto, D., Kutateladze, T.,* Habas, R.,* Finkielstein, C.,* He, X. and Overduin, M. 2002. DIX domain targets Dishevelled to actin stress fibers and membranes. Nature 419: 726-9.

Kato, Y., Habas, R., Katsuyama, Y., Naar, A. and He, X. 2002. A component of the mediator complex specific for Nodal/TGF-Beta signaling. Nature 418: 641-646.

2001

Habas, R., Kato, Y. and He, X. 2001. Wnt/Frizzled activation of Rho regulates vertebrate gastrulation and requires a novel formin homology protein Daam1. Cell 107: 843-854.

1996

D'Arcangelo, G., Habas, R., Wang, S., Halegoua, S. and Salton, S. R. J. 1996. Activation of codependent transcription factors is required for transcriptional induction of the vgf gene by Nerve Growth Factor and Ras. Mol. Cell. Biol. 16: 4621-31.

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