This work was supported by grants from the National Key Basic Research Program of China[2016YFC1000502 to H.Wang and X Yang];the National Natural Science Foundation of China[81430005 to H Wang,81472050 to X Yang];Open project of National Population and Family Planning Key Laboratory of Contraceptive drugs and Devices[2016KF04 for X Yang].
Background:The sonic hedgehog(SHH)pathway is an important signaling pathway for neural tube closure.GLI family zinc finger 2(GLI2)is the major activation mediator of the SHH pathway;however,no single-nucleotide polymo...
We apologize to those whose work we could not cite due to space limitations. Y Chen is supported by grams from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31271579), National Key Basic Research Program of China (2013CB910900), American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship (10POST3640046), Kunming Institute of Zoology startup foundation and Chinese Academy of Sciences. J Jiang is supported by grants from NIH (GM067045 and GM061269), CPRIT (RPI00561) and Welch foundation 0-1603), and is a Eugene McDermott Endowed Schol-ar of Biomedical Science at UTSW.
Hedgehog (Hh) signaling plays pivotal roles in embryonic development and adult tissue homeostasis, and its de-regulation leads to numerous human disorders including cancer. Binding of Hh to Patched (Ptc), a twelve...