Signal pathways of melanoma and targeted therapy

W Guo, H Wang, C Li - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Melanoma is the most lethal skin cancer that originates from the malignant transformation of
melanocytes. Although melanoma has long been regarded as a cancerous malignancy with …

Targeting signalling pathways and the immune microenvironment of cancer stem cells—a clinical update

JA Clara, C Monge, Y Yang, N Takebe - Nature reviews clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) have important roles in tumour development, relapse and
metastasis; the intrinsic self-renewal characteristics and tumorigenic properties of these cells …

Wnt signaling in cancer

T Zhan, N Rindtorff, M Boutros - Oncogene, 2017 - nature.com
Wnt signaling is one of the key cascades regulating development and stemness, and has
also been tightly associated with cancer. The role of Wnt signaling in carcinogenesis has …

MITF—the first 25 years

CR Goding, H Arnheiter - Genes & development, 2019 - genesdev.cshlp.org
All transcription factors are equal, but some are more equal than others. In the 25 yr since
the gene encoding the microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) was first …

Epigenetically controlled tumor antigens derived from splice junctions between exons and transposable elements

M Burbage, A Rocañín-Arjó, B Baudon, YA Arribas… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Oncogenesis often implicates epigenetic alterations, including derepression of transposable
elements (TEs) and defects in alternative splicing. Here, we explore the possibility that …

WNT signaling in melanoma

A Gajos-Michniewicz, M Czyz - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
WNT-signaling controls important cellular processes throughout embryonic development
and adult life, so any deregulation of this signaling can result in a wide range of pathologies …

Innate and adaptive immune cells in the tumor microenvironment

TF Gajewski, H Schreiber, YX Fu - Nature immunology, 2013 - nature.com
Most tumor cells express antigens that can mediate recognition by host CD8+ T cells.
Cancers that are detected clinically must have evaded antitumor immune responses to grow …

Reprogramming of palmitic acid induced by dephosphorylation of ACOX1 promotes β-catenin palmitoylation to drive colorectal cancer progression

Q Zhang, X Yang, J Wu, S Ye, J Gong, WM Cheng… - Cell discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of cancer. However, it is not well known how
metabolism affects cancer progression. We identified that metabolic enzyme acyl-CoA …

WNT signalling pathways as therapeutic targets in cancer

JN Anastas, RT Moon - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2013 - nature.com
Since the initial discovery of the oncogenic activity of WNT1 in mouse mammary glands, our
appreciation for the complex roles for WNT signalling pathways in cancer has increased …

The many faces and functions of β‐catenin

T Valenta, G Hausmann, K Basler - The EMBO journal, 2012 - embopress.org
β‐Catenin (Armadillo in Drosophila) is a multitasking and evolutionary conserved molecule
that in metazoans exerts a crucial role in a multitude of developmental and homeostatic …