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SUBMITTER: Khaliullina H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4371992 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Khaliullina Helena H Bilgin Mesut M Sampaio Julio L JL Shevchenko Andrej A Eaton Suzanne S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150302 11
Hedgehog ligands control tissue development and homeostasis by alleviating repression of Smoothened, a seven-pass transmembrane protein. The Hedgehog receptor, Patched, is thought to regulate the availability of small lipophilic Smoothened repressors whose identity is unknown. Lipoproteins contain lipids required to repress Smoothened signaling in vivo. Here, using biochemical fractionation and lipid mass spectrometry, we identify these repressors as endocannabinoids. Endocannabinoids circulate ...[more]