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 …

Mutations and mechanisms of WNT pathway tumour suppressors in cancer

JM Bugter, N Fenderico, MM Maurice - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Mutation-induced activation of WNT–β-catenin signalling is a frequent driver event in human
cancer. Sustained WNT–β-catenin pathway activation endows cancer cells with sustained …

Wnt signaling in development and tissue homeostasis

Z Steinhart, S Angers - Development, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
The Wnt-β-catenin signaling pathway is an evolutionarily conserved cell-cell communication
system that is important for stem cell renewal, cell proliferation and cell differentiation both …

Arsenic trioxide rescues structural p53 mutations through a cryptic allosteric site

S Chen, JL Wu, Y Liang, YG Tang, HX Song, LL Wu… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
TP53 is the most frequently mutated gene in cancer, yet these mutations remain
therapeutically non-actionable. Major challenges in drugging p53 mutations include …

WNT signaling in cardiac and vascular disease

S Foulquier, EP Daskalopoulos, G Lluri… - Pharmacological …, 2018 - ASPET
WNT signaling is an elaborate and complex collection of signal transduction pathways
mediated by multiple signaling molecules. WNT signaling is critically important for …

Structural basis of Wnt recognition by Frizzled

CY Janda, D Waghray, AM Levin, C Thomas… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Wnts are lipid-modified morphogens that play critical roles in development principally
through engagement of Frizzled receptors. The 3.25 angstrom structure of Xenopus Wnt8 …

Frizzled and LRP5/6 receptors for Wnt/β-catenin signaling

BT MacDonald, X He - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2012 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Frizzled and LRP5/6 are Wnt receptors that upon activation lead to stabilization of
cytoplasmic β-catenin. In this study, we review the current knowledge of these two families of …

Three decades of Wnts: a personal perspective on how a scientific field developed

R Nusse, H Varmus - The EMBO journal, 2012 - embopress.org
Wnt genes and components of Wnt signalling pathways have been implicated in a wide
spectrum of important biological phenomena, ranging from early organismal development to …

Complement C1q activates canonical Wnt signaling and promotes aging-related phenotypes

AT Naito, T Sumida, S Nomura, ML Liu, T Higo… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Wnt signaling plays critical roles in development of various organs and pathogenesis of
many diseases, and augmented Wnt signaling has recently been implicated in mammalian …

Structures of LRP2 reveal a molecular machine for endocytosis

A Beenken, G Cerutti, J Brasch, Y Guo, Z Sheng… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor-related protein 2 (LRP2 or megalin) is
representative of the phylogenetically conserved subfamily of giant LDL receptor-related …