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 signaling in cancer: therapeutic targeting of Wnt signaling beyond β-catenin and the destruction complex

YS Jung, JI Park - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Wnt/β-catenin signaling is implicated in many physiological processes, including
development, tissue homeostasis, and tissue regeneration. In human cancers, Wnt/β-catenin …

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 …

Transcriptional regulation of Wnt/β-catenin pathway in colorectal cancer

J Bian, M Dannappel, C Wan, R Firestein - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway exerts integral roles in embryogenesis and adult
homeostasis. Aberrant activation of the pathway is implicated in growth-associated diseases …

[HTML][HTML] The regulation of β-catenin activity and function in cancer: therapeutic opportunities

S Shang, F Hua, ZW Hu - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Wnt/β-catenin signaling is an evolutionarily conserved and versatile pathway that is known
to be involved in embryonic development, tissue homeostasis and a wide variety of human …

The complex world of WNT receptor signalling

C Niehrs - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2012 - nature.com
Abstract 30 years after the identification of WNTs, their signal transduction has become
increasingly complex, with the discovery of more than 15 receptors and co-receptors in …

The many faces and functions of β‐catenin

T Valenta, G Hausmann, K Basler - The EMBO journal, 2012 - embopress.org
β‐Catenin (Armadillo in Drosophila) is a multitasking and evolutionary conserved molecule
that in metazoans exerts a crucial role in a multitude of developmental and homeostatic …

[HTML][HTML] Wnt signaling through inhibition of β-catenin degradation in an intact Axin1 complex

VSW Li, SS Ng, PJ Boersema, TY Low, WR Karthaus… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Degradation of cytosolic β-catenin by the APC/Axin1 destruction complex represents the key
regulated step of the Wnt pathway. It is incompletely understood how the Axin1 complex …

Frizzled and LRP5/6 receptors for Wnt/β-catenin signaling

BT MacDonald, X He - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2012 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Frizzled and LRP5/6 are Wnt receptors that upon activation lead to stabilization of
cytoplasmic β-catenin. In this study, we review the current knowledge of these two families of …

Curcumin-Loaded Nanoparticles Potently Induce Adult Neurogenesis and Reverse Cognitive Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease Model via Canonical Wnt/β-Catenin …

SK Tiwari, S Agarwal, B Seth, A Yadav, S Nair… - ACS …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Neurogenesis, a process of generation of new neurons, is reported to be reduced in several
neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Induction of neurogenesis …