WNT as a driver and dependency in cancer

MJ Parsons, T Tammela, LE Dow - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
The WNT signaling pathway is a critical regulator of development and adult tissue
homeostasis and becomes dysregulated in many cancer types. Although hyperactivation of …

The Wnt signaling pathway in cancer

Y Duchartre, YM Kim, M Kahn - Critical reviews in oncology/hematology, 2016 - Elsevier
The Wnt signaling pathway is critically involved in both the development and homeostasis of
tissues via regulation of their endogenous stem cells. Aberrant Wnt signaling has been …

Can we safely target the WNT pathway?

M Kahn - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
WNT–β-catenin signalling is involved in a multitude of developmental processes and the
maintenance of adult tissue homeostasis by regulating cell proliferation, differentiation …

Towards an integrated view of Wnt signaling in development

R van Amerongen, R Nusse - Development, 2009 - journals.biologists.com
Wnt signaling is crucial for embryonic development in all animal species studied to date. The
interaction between Wnt proteins and cell surface receptors can result in a variety of …

[HTML][HTML] Wnt/β-catenin signaling plays an ever-expanding role in stem cell self-renewal, tumorigenesis and cancer chemoresistance

MK Mohammed, C Shao, J Wang, Q Wei, X Wang… - Genes & diseases, 2016 - Elsevier
Wnt signaling transduces evolutionarily conserved pathways which play important roles in
initiating and regulating a diverse range of cellular activities, including cell proliferation …

Wnt signaling: a common theme in animal development

KM Cadigan, R Nusse - Genes & development, 1997 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Wnt proteins are now recognized as one of the major families of developmentally important
signaling molecules, with mutations in Wnt genes displaying remarkable phenotypes in the …

Amiloride-sensitive epithelial Na+ channel is made of three homologous subunits

CM Canessa, L Schild, G Buell, B Thorens, I Gautschi… - Nature, 1994 - nature.com
THE amiloride-sensitive epithelial sodium channel constitutes the rate-limiting step for
sodium reabsorption in epithelial cells that line the distal part of the renal tubule, the distal …

A new member of the frizzled family from Drosophila functions as a Wingless receptor

P Bhanot, M Brink, CH Samos, JC Hsieh, Y Wang… - Nature, 1996 - nature.com
Receptors for Wingless and other signalling molecules of the Wnt gene family have yet to be
identified. We show here that cultured Drosophila cells transfected with a novel member 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 …

The Toll gene of Drosophila, required for dorsal-ventral embryonic polarity, appears to encode a transmembrane protein

C Hashimoto, KL Hudson, KV Anderson - Cell, 1988 - cell.com
Summary The To//gene of Drosophila, a maternal effect gene that plays a central role in the
establishment of the embryonic dorsal-ventral pattern, has been cloned using P element …