Notch signaling pathway: architecture, disease, and therapeutics

B Zhou, W Lin, Y Long, Y Yang, H Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The NOTCH gene was identified approximately 110 years ago. Classical studies have
revealed that NOTCH signaling is an evolutionarily conserved pathway. NOTCH receptors …

Oesophageal cancer

EC Smyth, J Lagergren, RC Fitzgerald… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2017 - nature.com
Oesophageal cancer is the sixth most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide
and is therefore a major global health challenge. The two major subtypes of oesophageal …

Notch signaling in development, tissue homeostasis, and disease

C Siebel, U Lendahl - Physiological reviews, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Notch signaling is an evolutionarily highly conserved signaling mechanism, but in contrast to
signaling pathways such as Wnt, Sonic Hedgehog, and BMP/TGF-β, Notch signaling occurs …

Uncovering novel mutational signatures by de novo extraction with SigProfilerExtractor

SMA Islam, M Díaz-Gay, Y Wu, M Barnes, R Vangara… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Mutational signature analysis is commonly performed in cancer genomic studies. Here, we
present SigProfilerExtractor, an automated tool for de novo extraction of mutational …

Drugging the undruggable RAS: Mission possible?

AD Cox, SW Fesik, AC Kimmelman, J Luo… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2014 - nature.com
Despite more than three decades of intensive effort, no effective pharmacological inhibitors
of the RAS oncoproteins have reached the clinic, prompting the widely held perception that …

Cancer genome landscapes

B Vogelstein, N Papadopoulos, VE Velculescu, S Zhou… - science, 2013 - science.org
Over the past decade, comprehensive sequencing efforts have revealed the genomic
landscapes of common forms of human cancer. For most cancer types, this landscape …

Identification of genomic alterations in oesophageal squamous cell cancer

Y Song, L Li, Y Ou, Z Gao, E Li, X Li, W Zhang, J Wang… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Oesophageal cancer is one of the most aggressive cancers and is the sixth leading cause of
cancer death worldwide. Approximately 70% of global oesophageal cancer cases occur in …

Genetic landscape of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

YB Gao, ZL Chen, JG Li, XD Hu, XJ Shi, ZM Sun… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is one of the deadliest cancers. We
performed exome sequencing on 113 tumor-normal pairs, yielding a mean of 82 non-silent …

Targeting Wnt-driven cancer through the inhibition of Porcupine by LGK974

J Liu, S Pan, MH Hsieh, N Ng, F Sun… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Wnt signaling is one of the key oncogenic pathways in multiple cancers, and targeting this
pathway is an attractive therapeutic approach. However, therapeutic success has been …

Detection of tumor-derived DNA in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with primary tumors of the brain and spinal cord

Y Wang, S Springer, M Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Cell-free DNA shed by cancer cells has been shown to be a rich source of putative tumor-
specific biomarkers. Because cell-free DNA from brain and spinal cord tumors cannot …