Wnt/β-catenin signaling in cancers and targeted therapies

F Yu, C Yu, F Li, Y Zuo, Y Wang, L Yao, C Wu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Wnt/β-catenin signaling has been broadly implicated in human cancers and experimental
cancer models of animals. Aberrant activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling is tightly linked with …

G protein-coupled receptors: structure-and function-based drug discovery

D Yang, Q Zhou, V Labroska, S Qin… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
As one of the most successful therapeutic target families, G protein-coupled receptors
(GPCRs) have experienced a transformation from random ligand screening to knowledge …

Impact of GPCR structures on drug discovery

M Congreve, C de Graaf, NA Swain, CG Tate - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Structures of 70 unique G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have been determined, with
over 370 structures in total bound to different ligands and the receptors in various …

Targeted therapy for head and neck cancer: signaling pathways and clinical studies

Q Li, Y Tie, A Alu, X Ma, H Shi - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Head and neck cancer (HNC) is malignant, genetically complex and difficult to treat and is
the sixth most frequent cancer, with tobacco, alcohol and human papillomavirus being major …

Structure, function and drug discovery of GPCR signaling

L Cheng, F **a, Z Li, C Shen, Z Yang, H Hou… - Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are versatile and vital proteins involved in a wide
array of physiological processes and responses, such as sensory perception (eg, vision …

Wnt signaling in heart development and regeneration

D Li, J Sun, TP Zhong - Current Cardiology Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death
worldwide, largely due to the limited regenerative capacity of the adult human heart. In …

Structure of human Frizzled5 by fiducial-assisted cryo-EM supports a heterodimeric mechanism of canonical Wnt signaling

N Tsutsumi, S Mukherjee, D Waghray, CY Janda… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Frizzleds (Fzd) are the primary receptors for Wnt morphogens, which are essential
regulators of stem cell biology, yet the structural basis of Wnt signaling through Fzd remains …

Structural and biophysical mechanisms of class CG protein-coupled receptor function

A Ellaithy, J Gonzalez-Maeso, DA Logothetis… - Trends in biochemical …, 2020 - cell.com
Groundbreaking structural and spectroscopic studies of class AG protein-coupled receptors
(GPCRs), such as rhodopsin and the β 2 adrenergic receptor, have provided a picture of …

Lipid-dependent regulation of ion channels and G protein–coupled receptors: insights from structures and simulations

AL Duncan, W Song… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Ion channels and G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) are regulated by lipids in their
membrane environment. Structural studies combined with biophysical and molecular …

Genomic testing, tumor microenvironment and targeted therapy of Hedgehog-related human cancers

M Katoh - Clinical Science, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Hedgehog signals are transduced through Patched receptors to the Smoothened (SMO)-
SUFU-GLI and SMO-Gi-RhoA signaling cascades. MTOR-S6K1 and MEK-ERK signals are …