“…This complex associates with the ubiquitin ligase, b-TrCP (b-transducin repeat-containing protein) that recognizes the N-terminally phosphorylated forms of bcatenin and regulates its ubiquitination and degradation by the proteasome (Winston et al, 1999;Liu et al, 1999;Latres et al, 1999;Hart et al, 1999;Kitagawa et al, 1999). b-TrCP associates through its F-box with Cul1/Skp1/ROC1 forming the modular ubiquitin ligase SCF complex (Latres et al, 1999;Tan et al, 1999) and via its WD repeat motif with the phosphorylated bcatenin (Winston et al, 1999;Liu et al, 1999;Hart et al, 1999), thus forming a multimolecular complex consisting of b-TrCP/b-catenin/Axin/GSK/APC (Liu et al, 1999;Kitagawa et al, 1999). b-TrCP and its Drosophila homolog Slimb were implicated in the regulation of wnt/wg signaling (Jiang and Struhl, 1998) and the DF-b-TrCP mutant, lacking the F-box, was shown to induce axis duplication in Xenopus (Marikawa and Elinson, 1998;Liu et al, 1999), and loss of function mutations in Slimb, induce the accumulation of armadillo in Drosophila (Jiang and Struhl, 1998).…”