Wnt signal transduction pathways

Y Komiya, R Habas - Organogenesis, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The Wnt signaling pathway is an ancient and evolutionarily conserved pathway that
regulates crucial aspects of cell fate determination, cell migration, cell polarity, neural …

A second canon: functions and mechanisms of β-catenin-independent Wnt signaling

MT Veeman, JD Axelrod, RT Moon - Developmental cell, 2003 - cell.com
More is becoming known about so-called noncanonical Wnt pathways that signal
independently of β-catenin. Here we review recent developments in both the functions and …

A cytosine deaminase for programmable single-base RNA editing

OO Abudayyeh, JS Gootenberg, B Franklin, J Koob… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Programmable RNA editing enables reversible recoding of RNA information for research
and disease treatment. Previously, we developed a programmable adenosine-to-inosine (A …

[HTML][HTML] Dual-specificity RNA aptamers enable manipulation of target-specific O-GlcNAcylation and unveil functions of O-GlcNAc on β-catenin

Y Zhu, GW Hart - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
O-GlcNAc is a dynamic post-translational modification (PTM) that regulates protein functions.
In studying the regulatory roles of O-GlcNAc, a major roadblock is the inability to change O …

Exosomes mediate stromal mobilization of autocrine Wnt-PCP signaling in breast cancer cell migration

V Luga, L Zhang, AM Viloria-Petit, AA Ogunjimi… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Stroma in the tumor microenvironment plays a critical role in cancer progression, but how it
promotes metastasis is poorly understood. Exosomes are small vesicles secreted by many …

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 …

Cross-kingdom inhibition of breast cancer growth by plant miR159

AR Chin, MY Fong, G Somlo, J Wu, P Swiderski, X Wu… - Cell research, 2016 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are critical regulators of gene expression, and exert extensive impacts
on development, physiology, and disease of eukaryotes. A high degree of parallelism is …

R-spondins function as ligands of the orphan receptors LGR4 and LGR5 to regulate Wnt/β-catenin signaling

KS Carmon, X Gong, Q Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The Wnt/β-catenin signaling system plays essential roles in embryonic development and in
the self-renewal and maintenance of adult stem cells. R-spondins (RSPOs) are a group of …

Widespread intronic polyadenylation inactivates tumour suppressor genes in leukaemia

SH Lee, I Singh, S Tisdale, O Abdel-Wahab, CS Leslie… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
DNA mutations are known cancer drivers. Here we investigated whether mRNA events that
are upregulated in cancer can functionally mimic the outcome of genetic alterations. RNA …

[HTML][HTML] Paracrine and autocrine signals induce and maintain mesenchymal and stem cell states in the breast

C Scheel, EN Eaton, SHJ Li, CL Chaffer, F Reinhardt… - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) has been associated with the acquisition of
motility, invasiveness, and self-renewal traits. During both normal development and tumor …