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"Because proinflammatory cytokine-induced cartilage degradation appears to involve WNT/β-catenin signaling and increased WNT/β-catenin signaling has been implicated in the initiation and progressive deterioration of cartilage degeneration, we hypothesized that small molecule inhibitors of the interaction between β-catenin and TCF4 and Lef1 could be used to prevent cytokine-induced cartilage degradation."
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"Our Chromatin immunoprecipitation assay demonstrated a strong binding of β-catenin to the TCF-4 and LEF-1 sites located around -703 and -685 regions of the PDGF-B gene promoter in the KPA cancer cells, while no significant binding was found in the KPC cancer cells (Figure xref D)."
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"APC mutations and β- catenin gene mutations increase the association of β-catenin with the TCF-4 and Lef-1, xref xref which are involved in the transcriptional regulation of E-cadherin xref and possibly, of other target genes and provide evidence of functional interaction between signaling pathways and cell adhesion molecules during tumorigenesis."