Wnt/β-catenin signalling: function, biological mechanisms, and therapeutic opportunities

J Liu, Q Xiao, J Xiao, C Niu, Y Li, X Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The Wnt/β-catenin pathway comprises a family of proteins that play critical roles in
embryonic development and adult tissue homeostasis. The deregulation of Wnt/β-catenin …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Wnt/β-catenin signaling, disease, and emerging therapeutic modalities

R Nusse, H Clevers - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The WNT signal transduction cascade is a main regulator of development throughout the
animal kingdom. Wnts are also key drivers of most types of tissue stem cells in adult …

Wnt signaling in breast cancer: biological mechanisms, challenges and opportunities

X Xu, M Zhang, F Xu, S Jiang - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Wnt signaling is a highly conserved signaling pathway that plays a critical role in controlling
embryonic and organ development, as well as cancer progression. Genome-wide …

Wnt signaling in development and tissue homeostasis

Z Steinhart, S Angers - Development, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
The Wnt-β-catenin signaling pathway is an evolutionarily conserved cell-cell communication
system that is important for stem cell renewal, cell proliferation and cell differentiation both …

Engineered Wnt ligands enable blood-brain barrier repair in neurological disorders

M Martin, S Vermeiren, N Bostaille, M Eubelen… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) protects the central nervous system (CNS) from harmful blood-
borne factors. Although BBB dysfunction is a hallmark of several neurological disorders …

Cell biology of canonical Wnt signaling

LV Albrecht, N Tejeda-Muñoz… - Annual review of cell …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Wnt signaling has multiple functions beyond the transcriptional effects of β-catenin
stabilization. We review recent investigations that uncover new cell physiological effects …

Protein lipidation: occurrence, mechanisms, biological functions, and enabling technologies

H Jiang, X Zhang, X Chen, P Aramsangtienchai… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Protein lipidation, including cysteine prenylation, N-terminal glycine myristoylation, cysteine
palmitoylation, and serine and lysine fatty acylation, occurs in many proteins in eukaryotic …

The medicinal chemistry of caffeine

G Faudone, S Arifi, D Merk - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
The purine alkaloid caffeine is the most widely consumed psychostimulant drug in the world
and has multiple beneficial pharmacological activities, for example, in neurodegenerative …

Targeting Wnt signaling in colorectal cancer. A review in the theme: cell signaling: proteins, pathways and mechanisms

L Novellasdemunt, P Antas… - American Journal of …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
The evolutionarily conserved Wnt signaling pathway plays essential roles during embryonic
development and tissue homeostasis. Notably, comprehensive genetic studies in …