Cellular and molecular mechanisms of Hedgehog signalling

Y Zhang, PA Beachy - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
The Hedgehog signalling pathway has crucial roles in embryonic tissue patterning,
postembryonic tissue regeneration, and cancer, yet aspects of Hedgehog signal …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting the sonic hedgehog signaling pathway: review of smoothened and GLI inhibitors

TK Rimkus, RL Carpenter, S Qasem, M Chan, HW Lo - Cancers, 2016 - mdpi.com
The sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling pathway is a major regulator of cell differentiation, cell
proliferation, and tissue polarity. Aberrant activation of the Shh pathway has been shown in …

[HTML][HTML] Sustained proliferation in cancer: Mechanisms and novel therapeutic targets

MA Feitelson, A Arzumanyan, RJ Kulathinal… - Seminars in cancer …, 2015 - Elsevier
Proliferation is an important part of cancer development and progression. This is manifest by
altered expression and/or activity of cell cycle related proteins. Constitutive activation of …

MYC: connecting selective transcriptional control to global RNA production

TR Kress, A Sabò, B Amati - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Two opposing models have been proposed to describe the function of the MYC oncoprotein
in shaping cellular transcriptomes: one posits that MYC amplifies transcription at all active …

[HTML][HTML] Hedgehog signaling: from basic biology to cancer therapy

F Wu, Y Zhang, B Sun, AP McMahon, Y Wang - Cell chemical biology, 2017 - cell.com
The Hedgehog (HH) signaling pathway was discovered originally as a key pathway in
embryonic patterning and development. Since its discovery, it has become increasingly …

Structural simplification of natural products

S Wang, G Dong, C Sheng - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Natural products (NPs) are important sources of clinical drugs due to their structural diversity
and biological prevalidation. However, the structural complexity of NPs leads to synthetic …

[HTML][HTML] Hedgehog pathway inhibitors as targeted cancer therapy and strategies to overcome drug resistance

NM Nguyen, J Cho - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hedgehog (Hh) signaling is a highly conserved pathway that plays a vital role during
embryonic development. Recently, uncontrolled activation of this pathway has been …

Tumour stem cells and drug resistance

M Dean, T Fojo, S Bates - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2005 - nature.com
The contribution of tumorigenic stem cells to haematopoietic cancers has been established
for some time, and cells possessing stem-cell properties have been described in several …

Hedgehog: functions and mechanisms

M Varjosalo, J Taipale - Genes & development, 2008 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The Hedgehog (Hh) family of proteins control cell growth, survival, and fate, and pattern
almost every aspect of the vertebrate body plan. The use of a single morphogen for such a …

Treatment of medulloblastoma with hedgehog pathway inhibitor GDC-0449

CM Rudin, CL Hann, J Laterra, RL Yauch… - … England Journal of …, 2009 - Mass Medical Soc
Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor in children. Aberrant activation
of the hedgehog signaling pathway is strongly implicated in the development of some cases …