Circulating tumor DNA as biomarkers for cancer detection

X Han, J Wang, Y Sun - Genomics, Proteomics and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Detection of circulating tumor DNAs (ctDNAs) in cancer patients is an important component
of cancer precision medicine ctDNAs. Compared to the traditional physical and biochemical …

Caught up in a Wnt storm: Wnt signaling in cancer

RH Giles, JH Van Es, H Clevers - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2003 - Elsevier
The Wnt signaling pathway, named for its most upstream ligands, the Wnts, is involved in
various differentiation events during embryonic development and leads to tumor formation …

Recurrent somatic mutation of FAT1 in multiple human cancers leads to aberrant Wnt activation

LGT Morris, AM Kaufman, Y Gong, D Ramaswami… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Aberrant Wnt signaling can drive cancer development. In many cancer types, the genetic
basis of Wnt pathway activation remains incompletely understood. Here, we report recurrent …

Reduction of squalene epoxidase by cholesterol accumulation accelerates colorectal cancer progression and metastasis

SY Jun, AJ Brown, NK Chua, JY Yoon, JJ Lee… - Gastroenterology, 2021 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Squalene epoxidase (SQLE), a rate-limiting enzyme in cholesterol
biosynthesis, is suggested as a proto-oncogene. Paradoxically, SQLE is degraded by …

Somatic mutations of the β-catenin gene are frequent in mouse and human hepatocellular carcinomas

AL Coste, B Romagnolo, P Billuart… - Proceedings of the …, 1998 - National Acad Sciences
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the major primary malignant tumor in the human liver,
but the molecular changes leading to liver cell transformation remain largely unknown. The …

CDK8 is a colorectal cancer oncogene that regulates β-catenin activity

R Firestein, AJ Bass, SY Kim, IF Dunn, SJ Silver… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Aberrant activation of the canonical WNT/β-catenin pathway occurs in almost all colorectal
cancers and contributes to their growth, invasion and survival,. Although dysregulated β …

Human intestinal morphogenesis controlled by transepithelial morphogen gradient and flow-dependent physical cues in a microengineered gut-on-a-chip

W Shin, CD Hinojosa, DE Ingber, HJ Kim - IScience, 2019 - cell.com
We leveraged a human gut-on-a-chip (Gut Chip) microdevice that enables independent
control of fluid flow and mechanical deformations to explore how physical cues and …

Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus promotes colorectal tumor development

R Kumar, JL Herold, D Schady, J Davis… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus (Sg) has long been known to have a strong
association with colorectal cancer (CRC). This knowledge has important clinical …

MicroRNA-135b promotes cancer progression by acting as a downstream effector of oncogenic pathways in colon cancer

N Valeri, C Braconi, P Gasparini, C Murgia, A Lampis… - Cancer cell, 2014 - cell.com
MicroRNA deregulation is frequent in human colorectal cancers (CRCs), but little is known
as to whether it represents a bystander event or actually drives tumor progression in vivo …

Wnt signaling in the intestinal epithelium: from endoderm to cancer

A Gregorieff, H Clevers - Genes & development, 2005 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The Wnt pathway controls cell fate during embryonic development. It also persists as a key
regulator of homeostasis in adult self-renewing tissues. In these tissues, mutational …