The Wnt pathway: from signaling mechanisms to synthetic modulators

EY Rim, H Clevers, R Nusse - Annual review of biochemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The Wnt pathway is central to a host of developmental and disease-related processes. The
remarkable conservation of this intercellular signaling cascade throughout metazoan …

Wnt/β-catenin signaling in cancers and targeted therapies

F Yu, C Yu, F Li, Y Zuo, Y Wang, L Yao, C Wu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Wnt/β-catenin signaling has been broadly implicated in human cancers and experimental
cancer models of animals. Aberrant activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling is tightly linked with …

WNT as a driver and dependency in cancer

MJ Parsons, T Tammela, LE Dow - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
The WNT signaling pathway is a critical regulator of development and adult tissue
homeostasis and becomes dysregulated in many cancer types. Although hyperactivation of …

Greasing the wheels of the cancer machine: the role of lipid metabolism in cancer

MT Snaebjornsson, S Janaki-Raman, A Schulze - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Altered lipid metabolism is among the most prominent metabolic alterations in cancer.
Enhanced synthesis or uptake of lipids contributes to rapid cancer cell growth and tumor …

[HTML][HTML] Wnt/β-catenin signaling, disease, and emerging therapeutic modalities

R Nusse, H Clevers - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The WNT signal transduction cascade is a main regulator of development throughout the
animal kingdom. Wnts are also key drivers of most types of tissue stem cells in adult …

Wnt/β-catenin signaling components and mechanisms in bone formation, homeostasis, and disease

L Hu, W Chen, A Qian, YP Li - Bone Research, 2024 - nature.com
Wnts are secreted, lipid-modified proteins that bind to different receptors on the cell surface
to activate canonical or non-canonical Wnt signaling pathways, which control various …

Cellular and molecular architecture of the intestinal stem cell niche

N McCarthy, J Kraiczy, RA Shivdasani - Nature cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
Intestinal stem and progenitor cells replicate and differentiate in distinct compartments,
influenced by Wnt, BMP, and other subepithelial cues. The cellular sources of these signals …

Protein lipidation: occurrence, mechanisms, biological functions, and enabling technologies

H Jiang, X Zhang, X Chen, P Aramsangtienchai… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Protein lipidation, including cysteine prenylation, N-terminal glycine myristoylation, cysteine
palmitoylation, and serine and lysine fatty acylation, occurs in many proteins in eukaryotic …

Targeting Notch, Hedgehog, and Wnt pathways in cancer stem cells: clinical update

N Takebe, L Miele, PJ Harris, W Jeong… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2015 - nature.com
During the past decade, cancer stem cells (CSCs) have been increasingly identified in many
malignancies. Although the origin and plasticity of these cells remain controversial, tumour …

Can we safely target the WNT pathway?

M Kahn - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
WNT–β-catenin signalling is involved in a multitude of developmental processes and the
maintenance of adult tissue homeostasis by regulating cell proliferation, differentiation …