Tissue Specificity | Detected in adult heart, brain, placenta, lung, liver, skeletal muscle, kidney, pancreas, thymus, prostate, testis, ovary, small intestine and colon. In the fetus, expressed in brain, lung, liver and kidney. |
Post Translational Modifications | Ubiquitinated by ZNRF3, leading to its degradation by the proteasome. |
Function | Receptor for Wnt proteins. Most of frizzled receptors are coupled to the beta-catenin canonical signaling pathway, which leads to the activation of disheveled proteins, inhibition of GSK-3 kinase, nuclear accumulation of beta-catenin and activation of Wnt target genes. A second signaling pathway involving PKC and calcium fluxes has been seen for some family members, but it is not yet clear if it represents a distinct pathway or if it can be integrated in the canonical pathway, as PKC seems to be required for Wnt-mediated inactivation of GSK-3 kinase. Both pathways seem to involve interactions with G-proteins. May be involved in transduction and intercellular transmission of polarity information during tissue morphogenesis and/or in differentiated tissues. Together with FZD3, is involved in the neural tube closure and plays a role in the regulation of the establishment of planar cell polarity (PCP), particularly in the orientation of asymmetric bundles of stereocilia on the apical faces of a subset of auditory and vestibular sensory cells located in the inner ear. |
Protein Name | Frizzled-6Fz-6Hfz6 |
Database Links | Reactome: R-HSA-373080Reactome: R-HSA-4086398Reactome: R-HSA-4086400Reactome: R-HSA-4641263Reactome: R-HSA-5340588 |
Cellular Localisation | MembraneMulti-Pass Membrane ProteinCell MembraneCell SurfaceApical Cell MembraneCytoplasmic Vesicle MembraneEndoplasmic Reticulum MembraneColocalizes With Fzd3 At The Apical Face Of CellsLocalizes To The Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane In The Presence Of Lmbr1l |
Alternative Antibody Names | Anti-Frizzled-6 antibodyAnti-Fz-6 antibodyAnti-Hfz6 antibodyAnti-FZD6 antibody |
Information sourced from Uniprot.org