The WNT/β‐catenin dependent transcription: A tissue‐specific business

S Söderholm, C Cantù - WIREs Mechanisms of Disease, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract β‐catenin‐mediated Wnt signaling is an ancient cell‐communication pathway in
which β‐catenin drives the expression of certain genes as a consequence of the trigger …

Pharmacological interventions in the Wnt pathway: inhibition of Wnt secretion versus disrupting the protein–protein interfaces of nuclear factors

D Zimmerli, G Hausmann, C Cantù… - British Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Mutations in components of the Wnt pathways are a frequent cause of many human
diseases, particularly cancer. Despite the fact that a causative link between aberrant Wnt …

BCL9L dysfunction impairs caspase-2 expression permitting aneuploidy tolerance in colorectal cancer

C López-García, L Sansregret, E Domingo… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Chromosomal instability (CIN) contributes to cancer evolution, intratumor heterogeneity, and
drug resistance. CIN is driven by chromosome segregation errors and a tolerance …

Identification of in vivo DNA-binding mechanisms of Pax6 and reconstruction of Pax6-dependent gene regulatory networks during forebrain and lens development

J Sun, S Rockowitz, Q Xie, R Ashery-Padan… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The transcription factor Pax6 is comprised of the paired domain (PD) and homeodomain
(HD). In the developing forebrain, Pax6 is expressed in ventricular zone precursor cells and …

The interactions of Bcl9/Bcl9L with β-catenin and Pygopus promote breast cancer growth, invasion, and metastasis

V Vafaizadeh, D Buechel, N Rubinstein, RKR Kalathur… - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
Canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling is an established regulator of cellular state and its critical
contributions to tumor initiation, malignant tumor progression and metastasis formation have …

TBX3 acts as tissue-specific component of the Wnt/β-catenin transcriptional complex

D Zimmerli, C Borrelli, A Jauregi-Miguel, S Söderholm… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
BCL9 and PYGO are β-catenin cofactors that enhance the transcription of Wnt target genes.
They have been proposed as therapeutic targets to diminish Wnt signaling output in …

Hypoxia-inducible factor 1α induces osteo/odontoblast differentiation of human dental pulp stem cells via Wnt/β-catenin transcriptional cofactor BCL9

S Orikasa, N Kawashima, K Tazawa, K Hashimoto… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Accelerated dental pulp mineralization is a common complication in avulsed/luxated teeth,
although the mechanisms underlying this remain unclear. We hypothesized that hypoxia …

A cytoplasmic role of Wnt/β-catenin transcriptional cofactors Bcl9, Bcl9l, and Pygopus in tooth enamel formation

C Cantù, P Pagella, TD Shajiei, D Zimmerli… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Wnt-stimulated β-catenin transcriptional regulation is necessary for the development of most
organs, including teeth. Bcl9 and Bcl9l are tissue-specific transcriptional cofactors that …

BCL9 provides multi-cellular communication properties in colorectal cancer by interacting with paraspeckle proteins

M Jiang, Y Kang, T Sewastianik, J Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer, which despite recent
advances in treatment, remains incurable due to molecular heterogeneity of tumor cells. The …

BCL9/9L-β-catenin signaling is associated with poor outcome in colorectal cancer

AE Moor, P Anderle, C Cantù, P Rodriguez… - …, 2015 - thelancet.com
BCL9/9L proteins enhance the transcriptional output of the β-catenin/TCF transcriptional
complex and contribute critically to upholding the high WNT signaling level required for …