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A highly original and sensitive method using clickable bioorthogonal fatty acids and in situ proximity ligation enables the visualization of the palmitoylation of not only Wnt but also its fatty acyltransferase Porcupine in cells.

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Figure 1: Selective imaging of Wnt palmitoylation leads to a proposed model for Wnt3a processing and trafficking.

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  1. Luc G. Berthiaume is at the Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.,

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