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 …

Emerging mechanistic understanding of cilia function in cellular signalling

KI Hilgendorf, BR Myers, JF Reiter - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Primary cilia are solitary, immotile sensory organelles present on most cells in the body that
participate broadly in human health, physiology and disease. Cilia generate a unique …

Dysregulated cholesterol homeostasis results in resistance to ferroptosis increasing tumorigenicity and metastasis in cancer

W Liu, B Chakraborty, R Safi, D Kazmin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Hypercholesterolemia and dyslipidemia are associated with an increased risk for many
cancer types and with poor outcomes in patients with established disease. Whereas the …

Establishing and regulating the composition of cilia for signal transduction

MV Nachury, DU Mick - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
The primary cilium is a hair-like surface-exposed organelle of the eukaryotic cell that
decodes a variety of signals—such as odorants, light and Hedgehog morphogens—by …

Emerging diversity in lipid–protein interactions

V Corradi, BI Sejdiu, H Mesa-Galloso… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Membrane lipids interact with proteins in a variety of ways, ranging from providing a stable
membrane environment for proteins to being embedded in to detailed roles in complicated …

Hedgehog/GLI signaling pathway: transduction, regulation, and implications for disease

AN Sigafoos, BD Paradise, ME Fernandez-Zapico - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The Hedgehog/GLI (Hh/GLI) pathway plays a major role during
development and it is commonly dysregulated in many diseases, including cancer. This …

[HTML][HTML] The role of cholesterol metabolism in cancer

X Ding, W Zhang, S Li, H Yang - American journal of cancer …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cholesterol plays an important role in cancer development. Both clinical and experimental
studies have found that hypercholesterolemia and a high-fat high-cholesterol diet can affect …

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 …

Anionic phospholipids control mechanisms of GPCR-G protein recognition

N Thakur, AP Ray, L Sharp, B **, A Duong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are embedded in phospholipids that strongly
influence drug-stimulated signaling. Anionic lipids are particularly important for GPCR …

Smoothened stimulation by membrane sterols drives Hedgehog pathway activity

I Deshpande, J Liang, D Hedeen, KJ Roberts, Y Zhang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Hedgehog signalling is fundamental to embryonic development and postnatal tissue
regeneration. Aberrant postnatal Hedgehog signalling leads to several malignancies …