Wnts and the hallmarks of cancer

Z Zhong, J Yu, DM Virshup, B Madan - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2020 - Springer
Since the discovery of the first mammalian Wnt proto-oncogene in virus-induced mouse
mammary tumors almost four decades ago, Wnt signaling pathway and its involvement in …

Tumour budding in colorectal cancer: what do we know and what can we do?

L De Smedt, S Palmans, X Sagaert - Virchows Archiv, 2016 - Springer
Budding is a process during which individual or small clusters of up to five tumour cells
detach from the main tumour mass and invade into the surrounding stroma. In colorectal …

miR-99a reveals two novel oncogenic proteins E2F2 and EMR2 and represses stemness in lung cancer

A Feliciano, Y Garcia-Mayea, L Jubierre, C Mir… - Cell Death & …, 2017 - nature.com
Lung cancer is one of the most aggressive tumours with very low life expectancy. Altered
microRNA expression is found in human tumours because it is involved in tumour growth …

USP20 positively regulates tumorigenesis and chemoresistance through β-catenin stabilization

C Wu, K Luo, F Zhao, P Yin, Y Song, M Deng… - Cell Death & …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract β-catenin is a major transcriptional activator of the canonical Wnt/β-catenin
signaling pathway. It is important for a series of biological processes including tissue …

Pleiotropic effects of PPARD accelerate colorectal tumorigenesis, progression, and invasion

Y Liu, Y Deguchi, R Tian, D Wei, L Wu, W Chen, W Xu… - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
APC mutations activate aberrant β-catenin signaling to drive initiation of colorectal cancer;
however, colorectal cancer progression requires additional molecular mechanisms. PPAR …

[HTML][HTML] PLK1-mediated phosphorylation of β-catenin enhances its stability and transcriptional activity for extracellular matrix remodeling in metastatic NSCLC

DE Kim, SB Shin, CH Kim, YB Kim, HJ Oh, H Yim - Theranostics, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: β-catenin is a component for cell adhesion and a transcriptional coactivator in
epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Previously we found that catalytically active PLK1 …

Antioxidant defense in primary murine lung cells following short-and long-term exposure to plastic particles

A Schmidt, M Mühl, WAS Brito, D Singer, S Bekeschus - Antioxidants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Polystyrene nano-and micro-sized plastic particles (NMP) are one of the common plastic
materials produced that dramatically pollute the environment, water, and oceanic habitats …

Overexpression of the NEK9–EG5 axis is a novel metastatic marker in pathologic stage T3 colon cancer

M Kim, HJ Jeong, H Ju, J Song, SJ Jang, J Choi - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
NEK9 is a key player in the NEK9–EG5 axis for microtubule polymerization, chromosome
alignment, and mitosis. In present study, we investigated the altered expression of the NEK9 …

S100 calcium-binding protein A6 promotes epithelial-mesenchymal transition through β-catenin in pancreatic cancer cell line

X Chen, X Liu, H Lang, S Zhang, Y Luo, J Zhang - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The pathogenesis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains poorly understood.
S100 calcium-binding protein A6 (S100A6) has been associated with PDAC; however, the …

A combination of stromal PD‐L1 and tumoral nuclear β‐catenin expression as an indicator of colorectal carcinoma progression and resistance to chemoradiotherapy …

H Takahashi, H Watanabe… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Programmed cell death‐1 (PD‐1) and its ligand (PD‐L1) are significant mediators
of immune suppression in the tumor microenvironment. We focused on the immunological …