Direct targeting of β‐catenin in the Wnt signaling pathway: Current progress and perspectives

Z Wang, Z Li, H Ji - Medicinal research reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aberrant activation of the Wnt/β‐catenin signaling circuit is associated with cancer
recurrence and relapse, cancer invasion and metastasis, and cancer immune evasion …

Direct measurement of protein binding energetics by isothermal titration calorimetry

S Leavitt, E Freire - Current opinion in structural biology, 2001 - Elsevier
Of all the techniques that are currently available to measure binding, isothermal titration
calorimetry is the only one capable of measuring not only the magnitude of the binding …

Mining the Wnt pathway for cancer therapeutics

N Barker, H Clevers - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2006 - nature.com
Aberrant activation of the Wnt pathway is implicated in driving the formation of various
human cancers, particularly those of the digestive tract. Inhibition of aberrant Wnt pathway …

Small-molecule antagonists of the oncogenic Tcf/β-catenin protein complex

M Lepourcelet, YNP Chen, DS France, H Wang… - Cancer cell, 2004 - cell.com
Key molecular lesions in colorectal and other cancers cause β-catenin-dependent
transactivation of T cell factor (Tcf)-dependent genes. Disruption of this signal represents an …

Features of protein–protein interactions that translate into potent inhibitors: topology, surface area and affinity

MC Smith, JE Gestwicki - Expert reviews in molecular medicine, 2012 - cambridge.org
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) control the assembly of multi-protein complexes and,
thus, these contacts have enormous potential as drug targets. However, the field has …

Preformed structural elements feature in partner recognition by intrinsically unstructured proteins

M Fuxreiter, I Simon, P Friedrich, P Tompa - Journal of molecular biology, 2004 - Elsevier
Intrinsically unstructured proteins (IUPs) are devoid of extensive structural order but often
display signs of local and limited residual structure. To explain their effective functioning, we …

Is β-catenin a druggable target for cancer therapy?

C Cui, X Zhou, W Zhang, Y Qu, X Ke - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Mutations of canonical Wnt signaling pathway genes frequently occur in cancer and lead to
abnormal accumulation of the key effector β-catenin. Over the past decades, a number of …

Heat does not come in different colours: entropy–enthalpy compensation, free energy windows, quantum confinement, pressure perturbation calorimetry, solvation …

A Cooper, CM Johnson, JH Lakey, M Nöllmann - Biophysical chemistry, 2001 - Elsevier
Modern techniques in microcalorimetry allow us to measure directly the heat changes and
associated thermodynamics for biomolecular processes in aqueous solution at reasonable …

Human transcription factors contain a high fraction of intrinsically disordered regions essential for transcriptional regulation

Y Minezaki, K Homma, AR Kinjo… - Journal of molecular …, 2006 - Elsevier
Human transcriptional regulation factors, such as activators, repressors, and enhancer-
binding factors are quite different from their prokaryotic counterparts in two respects: the …

Close encounters of the third kind: disordered domains and the interactions of proteins

P Tompa, M Fuxreiter, CJ Oldfield, I Simon… - …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Protein–protein interactions are thought to be mediated by domains, which are autonomous
folding units of proteins. Recently, a second type of interaction has been suggested …