The Wnt pathway: from signaling mechanisms to synthetic modulators

EY Rim, H Clevers, R Nusse - Annual review of biochemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The Wnt pathway is central to a host of developmental and disease-related processes. The
remarkable conservation of this intercellular signaling cascade throughout metazoan …

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 …

Mutations and mechanisms of WNT pathway tumour suppressors in cancer

JM Bugter, N Fenderico, MM Maurice - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Mutation-induced activation of WNT–β-catenin signalling is a frequent driver event in human
cancer. Sustained WNT–β-catenin pathway activation endows cancer cells with sustained …

Targeting signalling pathways and the immune microenvironment of cancer stem cells—a clinical update

JA Clara, C Monge, Y Yang, N Takebe - Nature reviews clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) have important roles in tumour development, relapse and
metastasis; the intrinsic self-renewal characteristics and tumorigenic properties of these cells …

WNT as a driver and dependency in cancer

MJ Parsons, T Tammela, LE Dow - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
The WNT signaling pathway is a critical regulator of development and adult tissue
homeostasis and becomes dysregulated in many cancer types. Although hyperactivation of …

Cancer stem cells revisited

E Batlle, H Clevers - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
The cancer stem cell (CSC) concept was proposed four decades ago, and states that tumor
growth, analogous to the renewal of healthy tissues, is fueled by small numbers of dedicated …

Integrated genomic characterization of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

BJ Raphael, RH Hruban, AJ Aguirre, RA Moffitt, JJ Yeh… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
We performed integrated genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic profiling of 150 pancreatic
ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) specimens, including samples with characteristic low …

Wnt signaling in cancer

T Zhan, N Rindtorff, M Boutros - Oncogene, 2017 - nature.com
Wnt signaling is one of the key cascades regulating development and stemness, and has
also been tightly associated with cancer. The role of Wnt signaling in carcinogenesis has …

Human pancreatic tumor organoids reveal loss of stem cell niche factor dependence during disease progression

T Seino, S Kawasaki, M Shimokawa, H Tamagawa… - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Despite recent efforts to dissect the inter-tumor heterogeneity of pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC) by determining prognosis-predictive gene expression signatures …

Whole genomes redefine the mutational landscape of pancreatic cancer

N Waddell, M Pajic, AM Patch, DK Chang, KS Kassahn… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most lethal of malignancies and a major health
burden. We performed whole-genome sequencing and copy number variation (CNV) …