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 …

A highlight on Sonic hedgehog pathway

GB Carballo, JR Honorato, GPF de Lopes… - Cell Communication and …, 2018 - Springer
Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway plays an essential role during vertebrate embryonic
development and tumorigenesis. It is already known that Sonic hedgehog (Shh) pathway is …

Non-canonical hedgehog signaling pathway in cancer: activation of GLI transcription factors beyond smoothened

S Pietrobono, S Gagliardi, B Stecca - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Hedgehog-GLI (HH-GLI) pathway is a highly conserved signaling that plays a critical
role in controlling cell specification, cell–cell interaction and tissue patterning during …

Randomized phase Ib/II study of gemcitabine plus placebo or vismodegib, a hedgehog pathway inhibitor, in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer

DVT Catenacci, MR Junttila, T Karrison… - Journal of Clinical …, 2015 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Sonic hedgehog (SHH), an activating ligand of smoothened (SMO), is
overexpressed in> 70% of pancreatic cancers (PCs). We investigated the impact of …

Genome sequencing of SHH medulloblastoma predicts genotype-related response to smoothened inhibition

M Kool, DTW Jones, N Jäger, PA Northcott, TJ Pugh… - Cancer cell, 2014 - cell.com
Smoothened (SMO) inhibitors recently entered clinical trials for sonic-hedgehog-driven
medulloblastoma (SHH-MB). Clinical response is highly variable. To understand the …

Vismodegib exerts targeted efficacy against recurrent sonic hedgehog–subgroup medulloblastoma: results from phase II pediatric brain tumor consortium studies …

GW Robinson, BA Orr, G Wu, S Gururangan… - Journal of Clinical …, 2015 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Two phase II studies assessed the efficacy of vismodegib, a sonic hedgehog (SHH)
pathway inhibitor that binds smoothened (SMO), in pediatric and adult recurrent …

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 …

Smoothened stimulation by membrane sterols drives Hedgehog pathway activity

I Deshpande, J Liang, D Hedeen, KJ Roberts, Y Zhang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Hedgehog signalling is fundamental to embryonic development and postnatal tissue
regeneration. Aberrant postnatal Hedgehog signalling leads to several malignancies …

Smoothened variants explain the majority of drug resistance in basal cell carcinoma

SX Atwood, KY Sarin, RJ Whitson, JR Li, G Kim… - Cancer cell, 2015 - cell.com
Advanced basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) frequently acquire resistance to Smoothened
(SMO) inhibitors through unknown mechanisms. Here we identify SMO mutations in 50%(22 …

Unraveling the therapeutic potential of the Hedgehog pathway in cancer

D Amakye, Z Jagani, M Dorsch - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
Major progress has been made in recent years in the development of Hedgehog (Hh)
pathway inhibitors for the treatment of patients with cancer. Promising clinical trial results …