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Active Wnt proteins are secreted on exosomes

J. Gross,Varun Chaudhary,Kerstin Bartscherer,M. Boutros

2012 · DOI: 10.1038/ncb2574
Nature Cell Biology · 909 Citations

TLDR

It is demonstrated that exosomes carry Wnts on their surface to induce Wnt signalling activity in target cells and an evolutionarily conserved functional role of extracellular vesicular transport of Wnt proteins is demonstrated.