Multiprotein complexes governing Wnt signal transduction

M Gammons, M Bienz - Current opinion in cell biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Wnt signalling from the plasma membrane to the nucleus involves multiprotein
complexes.•Mechanistic principles underlying the assembly of these complexes are …

Mechanisms of Wnt signaling and control

S Grainger, K Willert - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The Wnt signaling pathway is a highly conserved system that regulates complex biological
processes across all metazoan species. At the cellular level, secreted Wnt proteins serve to …

WNT stimulation induces dynamic conformational changes in the Frizzled-Dishevelled interaction

CF Bowin, P Kozielewicz, L Grätz, M Kowalski-Jahn… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Frizzleds (FZDs) are G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) that bind to WNT family ligands.
FZDs signal through multiple effector proteins, including Dishevelled (DVL), which acts as a …

MEP pathway products allosterically promote monomerization of deoxy-D-xylulose-5-phosphate synthase to feedback-regulate their supply

X Di, D Ortega-Alarcon, R Kakumanu… - Plant …, 2023 - cell.com
Isoprenoids are a very large and diverse family of metabolites required by all living
organisms. All isoprenoids derive from the double-bond isomers isopentenyl diphosphate …

Frizzleds as GPCRs–more conventional than we thought!

G Schulte, SC Wright - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2018 - cell.com
For more than 30 years, WNT/β-catenin and planar cell polarity signaling has formed the
basis for what we understand to be the primary output of the interaction between WNTs and …

Structural basis of Frizzled 4 in recognition of Dishevelled 2 unveils mechanism of WNT signaling activation

Y Qian, Z Ma, Z Xu, Y Duan, Y Xiong, R Xia… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
WNT signaling is fundamental in development and homeostasis, but how the Frizzled
receptors (FZDs) propagate signaling remains enigmatic. Here, we present the cryo-EM …

Mesenchymal stem cell‐derived extracellular vesicles suppress the fibroblast proliferation by downregulating FZD6 expression in fibroblasts via micrRNA‐29b‐3p in …

X Wan, S Chen, Y Fang, W Zuo, J Cui… - Journal of Cellular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive and fatal lung disease, usually leads to an
irreversible distortion of the pulmonary structure. The functional roles of bone marrow …

[HTML][HTML] Unlocking the Wnt pathway: Therapeutic potential of selective targeting FZD7 in cancer

Y Larasati, C Boudou, A Koval, VL Katanaev - Drug discovery today, 2022 - Elsevier
The Wnt signaling is of paramount pathophysiological importance. Despite showing
promising anticancer activities in pre-clinical studies, current Wnt pathway inhibitors face …

A conserved molecular switch in Class F receptors regulates receptor activation and pathway selection

SC Wright, P Kozielewicz, M Kowalski-Jahn… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Class F receptors are considered valuable therapeutic targets due to their role in human
disease, but structural changes accompanying receptor activation remain unexplored …

Assembly and architecture of the Wnt/β‐catenin signalosome at the membrane

ZJ DeBruine, HE Xu, K Melcher - British journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Wnt/β‐catenin signalling is initiated by a ternary Wnt‐Frizzled (FZD)‐LDL receptor‐related
protein (LRP) 5/6 binding event. The resulting conformational changes in the FZD and …