Wnt signaling in breast cancer: biological mechanisms, challenges and opportunities

X Xu, M Zhang, F Xu, S Jiang - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Wnt signaling is a highly conserved signaling pathway that plays a critical role in controlling
embryonic and organ development, as well as cancer progression. Genome-wide …

Extracellular vesicles round off communication in the nervous system

V Budnik, C Ruiz-Cañada, F Wendler - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Functional neural competence and integrity require interactive exchanges among sensory
and motor neurons, interneurons and glial cells. Recent studies have attributed some of the …

Wnt/β-catenin signaling and disease

H Clevers, R Nusse - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
The WNT signal transduction cascade controls myriad biological phenomena throughout
development and adult life of all animals. In parallel, aberrant Wnt signaling underlies a …

Active Wnt proteins are secreted on exosomes

JC Gross, V Chaudhary, K Bartscherer, M Boutros - Nature cell biology, 2012 - nature.com
Wnt signalling has important roles during development and in many diseases. As
morphogens, hydrophobic Wnt proteins exert their function over a distance to induce …

Wnt/β-catenin signaling: components, mechanisms, and diseases

BT MacDonald, K Tamai, X He - Developmental cell, 2009 - cell.com
Signaling by the Wnt family of secreted glycolipoproteins via the transcriptional coactivator β-
catenin controls embryonic development and adult homeostasis. Here we review recent …

Retromer: a master conductor of endosome sorting

C Burd, PJ Cullen - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The endosomal network comprises an interconnected network of membranous
compartments whose primary function is to receive, dissociate, and sort cargo that originates …

The retromer complex–endosomal protein recycling and beyond

MNJ Seaman - Journal of cell science, 2012 - journals.biologists.com
The retromer complex is a vital element of the endosomal protein sorting machinery that is
conserved across all eukaryotes. Retromer is most closely associated with the endosome-to …

Wnt proteins

K Willert, R Nusse - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2012 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Wnt proteins comprise a major family of signaling molecules that orchestrate and influence a
myriad of cell biological and developmental processes. Although our understanding of the …

SNX27 mediates retromer tubule entry and endosome-to-plasma membrane trafficking of signalling receptors

P Temkin, B Lauffer, S Jäger, P Cimermancic… - Nature cell …, 2011 - nature.com
Endocytic sorting of signalling receptors between recycling and degradative pathways is a
key cellular process controlling the surface complement of receptors and, accordingly, the …

Wnt signaling and stem cell control

R Nusse, C Fuerer, W Ching, K Harnish… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2008 - symposium.cshlp.org
In many contexts, self-renewal and differentiation of stem cells are influenced by signals
from their environment, constituting a niche. It is postulated that stem cells compete for local …