Cellular and molecular mechanisms of Hedgehog signalling

Y Zhang, PA Beachy - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
The Hedgehog signalling pathway has crucial roles in embryonic tissue patterning,
postembryonic tissue regeneration, and cancer, yet aspects of Hedgehog signal …

Transition-metal catalyzed C–H activation as a means of synthesizing complex natural products

SK Sinha, P Ghosh, S Jain, S Maiti… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past few decades, the advent of C–H activation has led to a rethink among
chemists about the synthetic strategies employed for multi-step transformations. Indeed …

Bone microenvironment and osteosarcoma metastasis

C Yang, Y Tian, F Zhao, Z Chen, P Su, Y Li… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The bone microenvironment is an ideal fertile soil for both primary and secondary tumors to
seed. The occurrence and development of osteosarcoma, as a primary bone tumor, is …

An insight into GPCR and G-proteins as cancer drivers

PK Chaudhary, S Kim - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest family of cell surface signaling
receptors known to play a crucial role in various physiological functions, including tumor …

Targeting the sonic hedgehog signaling pathway: review of smoothened and GLI inhibitors

TK Rimkus, RL Carpenter, S Qasem, M Chan, HW Lo - Cancers, 2016 - mdpi.com
The sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling pathway is a major regulator of cell differentiation, cell
proliferation, and tissue polarity. Aberrant activation of the Shh pathway has been shown in …

Hedgehog signaling and truncated GLI1 in cancer

D Doheny, SG Manore, GL Wong, HW Lo - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The hedgehog (HH) signaling pathway regulates normal cell growth and differentiation. As a
consequence of improper control, aberrant HH signaling results in tumorigenesis and …

Cellular cholesterol directly activates smoothened in hedgehog signaling

P Huang, D Nedelcu, M Watanabe, C Jao, Y Kim, J Liu… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
In vertebrates, sterols are necessary for Hedgehog signaling, a pathway critical in
embryogenesis and cancer. Sterols activate the membrane protein Smoothened by binding …

Building muscle: molecular regulation of myogenesis

CF Bentzinger, YX Wang… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2012 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The genesis of skeletal muscle during embryonic development and postnatal life serves as a
paradigm for stem and progenitor cell maintenance, lineage specification, and terminal …

The emerging mutational landscape of G proteins and G-protein-coupled receptors in cancer

M O'hayre, J Vázquez-Prado, I Kufareva… - Nature reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Aberrant expression and activity of G proteins and G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are
frequently associated with tumorigenesis. Deep sequencing studies show that 4.2% of …

Cancer genes and the pathways they control

B Vogelstein, KW Kinzler - Nature medicine, 2004 - nature.com
The revolution in cancer research can be summed up in a single sentence: cancer is, in
essence, a genetic disease. In the last decade, many important genes responsible for the …