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 …

Hedgehog signaling in tissue homeostasis, cancers and targeted therapies

J **g, Z Wu, J Wang, G Luo, H Lin, Y Fan… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
The past decade has seen significant advances in our understanding of Hedgehog (HH)
signaling pathway in various biological events. HH signaling pathway exerts its biological …

Small-molecule inhibitors, immune checkpoint inhibitors, and more: FDA-approved novel therapeutic drugs for solid tumors from 1991 to 2021

Q Wu, W Qian, X Sun, S Jiang - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has always been a
forerunner in drug evaluation and supervision. Over the past 31 years, 1050 drugs …

GPCRdb in 2021: integrating GPCR sequence, structure and function

AJ Kooistra, S Mordalski… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) form both the largest family of membrane proteins and
drug targets, mediating the action of one-third of medicines. The GPCR database, GPCRdb …

Structural basis for strychnine activation of human bitter taste receptor TAS2R46

W Xu, L Wu, S Liu, X Liu, X Cao, C Zhou, J Zhang, Y Fu… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Taste sensing is a sophisticated chemosensory process, and bitter taste perception is
mediated by type 2 taste receptors (TAS2Rs), or class TG protein–coupled receptors …

An insight into GPCR and G-proteins as cancer drivers

PK Chaudhary, S Kim - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest family of cell surface signaling
receptors known to play a crucial role in various physiological functions, including tumor …

Structure-based virtual screening for ligands of G protein–coupled receptors: what can molecular docking do for you?

F Ballante, AJ Kooistra, S Kampen, C de Graaf… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute the largest family of membrane proteins in
the human genome and are important therapeutic targets. During the last decade, the …

The pocketome of G-protein-coupled receptors reveals previously untargeted allosteric sites

JB Hedderich, M Persechino, K Becker… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
G-protein-coupled receptors do not only feature the orthosteric pockets, where most
endogenous agonists bind, but also a multitude of other allosteric pockets that have come …

Structural insights into G-protein-coupled receptor allostery

DM Thal, A Glukhova, PM Sexton, A Christopoulos - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are key cell-surface proteins that transduce external
environmental cues into biochemical signals across the membrane. GPCRs are intrinsically …

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 …