New developments in the biology of fibroblast growth factors

DM Ornitz, N Itoh - WIREs mechanisms of disease, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family is composed of 18 secreted signaling proteins
consisting of canonical FGFs and endocrine FGFs that activate four receptor tyrosine …

Careless talk costs lives: fibroblast growth factor receptor signalling and the consequences of pathway malfunction

EP Carter, AE Fearon, RP Grose - Trends in cell biology, 2015 - cell.com
Since its discovery 40 years ago, fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptor (FGFR) signalling
has been found to regulate fundamental cellular behaviours in a wide range of cell types …

[HTML][HTML] Truncated FGFR2 is a clinically actionable oncogene in multiple cancers

D Zingg, J Bhin, J Yemelyanenko, SM Kas, F Rolfs… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Somatic hotspot mutations and structural amplifications and fusions that affect fibroblast
growth factor receptor 2 (encoded by FGFR2) occur in multiple types of cancer. However …

mTORC1 and mTORC2 regulate skin morphogenesis and epidermal barrier formation

X Ding, W Bloch, S Iden, MA Rüegg, MN Hall… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), a regulator of growth in many tissues, mediates its
activity through two multiprotein complexes, mTORC1 or mTORC2. The role of mTOR …

The regulation of skin homeostasis, repair and the pathogenesis of skin diseases by spatiotemporal activation of epidermal mTOR signaling

J Wang, B Cui, Z Chen, X Ding - Frontiers in cell and developmental …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The epidermis, the outmost layer of the skin, is a stratified squamous epithelium that protects
the body from the external world. The epidermis and its appendages need constantly renew …

Fibroblast growth factor receptor signaling in skin cancers

M Czyz - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Fibroblast growth factor (FGF)/Fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) signaling regulates
various cellular processes during the embryonic development and in the adult organism. In …

[HTML][HTML] MicroRNA-106b in cancer-associated fibroblasts from gastric cancer promotes cell migration and invasion by targeting PTEN

TS Yang, XH Yang, X Chen, XD Wang, J Hua, DL Zhou… - FEBS letters, 2014 - Elsevier
It is well established that the interaction between cancer cells and microenvironment has a
critical role in tumor development, but the roles of miRNAs in this interaction are rarely …

Molecular genetics of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma: perspective for treatment strategies

L Di Nardo, C Pellegrini, A Di Stefani… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) represents 20% of all skin cancers. Although
primary cSCC s can be successfully treated with surgery, a subset of highly aggressive …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic mutations underlying phenotypic plasticity in basosquamous carcinoma

A Chiang, CZ Tan, F Kuonen, LM Hodgkinson… - Journal of Investigative …, 2019 - Elsevier
Basosquamous carcinoma (BSC) is an aggressive skin neoplasm with the features of both
basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). While genetic drivers of …

[HTML][HTML] The Mutational and Microenvironmental Landscape of Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Review

TM Hosseini, SJ Park, T Guo - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is a complex disease arising
from an interplay of UV-induced DNA damage, genetic mutations, and alterations in the …