A Wnt-producing niche drives proliferative potential and progression in lung adenocarcinoma

T Tammela, FJ Sanchez-Rivera, NM Cetinbas, K Wu… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The heterogeneity of cellular states in cancer has been linked to drug resistance, cancer
progression and the presence of cancer cells with properties of normal tissue stem cells …

Wnt signalling in stem cells and cancer

T Reya, H Clevers - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
The canonical Wnt cascade has emerged as a critical regulator of stem cells. In many
tissues, activation of Wnt signalling has also been associated with cancer. This has raised …

Interactions between cancer stem cells and their niche govern metastatic colonization

I Malanchi, A Santamaria-Martínez, E Susanto, H Peng… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Metastatic growth in distant organs is the major cause of cancer mortality. The development
of metastasis is a multistage process with several rate-limiting steps. Although dissemination …

Shutting down Wnt signal–activated cancer

MM Taketo - Nature genetics, 2004 - nature.com
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Tumour cell heterogeneity maintained by cooperating subclones in Wnt-driven mammary cancers

AS Cleary, TL Leonard, SA Gestl, EJ Gunther - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Cancer genome sequencing studies indicate that a single breast cancer typically harbours
multiple genetically distinct subclones,,,. As carcinogenesis involves a breakdown in the cell …

GLI1-expressing mesenchymal cells form the essential Wnt-secreting niche for colon stem cells

B Degirmenci, T Valenta, S Dimitrieva, G Hausmann… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Wnt–β-catenin signalling plays a pivotal role in the homeostasis of the intestinal epithelium
by promoting stem cell renewal,. In the small intestine, epithelial Paneth cells secrete Wnt …

Loss of p53 triggers WNT-dependent systemic inflammation to drive breast cancer metastasis

MD Wellenstein, SB Coffelt, DEM Duits… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Cancer-associated systemic inflammation is strongly linked to poor disease outcome in
patients with cancer,. For most human epithelial tumour types, high systemic neutrophil-to …

Wnt1 silences chemokine genes in dendritic cells and induces adaptive immune resistance in lung adenocarcinoma

D Kerdidani, P Chouvardas, AR Arjo, I Giopanou… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD)-derived Wnts increase cancer cell proliferative/stemness
potential, but whether they impact the immune microenvironment is unknown. Here we show …

Visualization of a short-range Wnt gradient in the intestinal stem-cell niche

HF Farin, I Jordens, MH Mosa, O Basak, J Korving… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Mammalian Wnt proteins are believed to act as short-range signals,,,, yet have not been
previously visualized in vivo. Self-renewal, proliferation and differentiation are coordinated …

Surrogate Wnt agonists that phenocopy canonical Wnt and β-catenin signalling

CY Janda, LT Dang, C You, J Chang, W De Lau… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Wnt proteins modulate cell proliferation and differentiation and the self-renewal of stem cells
by inducing β-catenin-dependent signalling through the Wnt receptor frizzled (FZD) and the …