Non-canonical hedgehog signaling pathway in cancer: activation of GLI transcription factors beyond smoothened

S Pietrobono, S Gagliardi, B Stecca - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Hedgehog-GLI (HH-GLI) pathway is a highly conserved signaling that plays a critical
role in controlling cell specification, cell–cell interaction and tissue patterning during …

Gli proteins in development and disease

C Hui, S Angers - Annual review of cell and developmental …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Gli zinc-finger proteins are transcription factors involved in the intracellular signal
transduction controlled by the Hedgehog family of secreted molecules. They are frequently …

Hedgehog: functions and mechanisms

M Varjosalo, J Taipale - Genes & development, 2008 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The Hedgehog (Hh) family of proteins control cell growth, survival, and fate, and pattern
almost every aspect of the vertebrate body plan. The use of a single morphogen for such a …

Gli proteins: regulation in development and cancer

P Niewiadomski, SM Niedziółka, Ł Markiewicz… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Gli proteins are transcriptional effectors of the Hedgehog signaling pathway. They play key
roles in the development of many organs and tissues, and are deregulated in birth defects …

Histone deacetylase and Cullin3–RENKCTD11 ubiquitin ligase interplay regulates Hedgehog signalling through Gli acetylation

G Canettieri, L Di Marcotullio, A Greco, S Coni… - Nature cell …, 2010 - nature.com
Hedgehog signalling is crucial for development and is deregulated in several tumours,
including medulloblastoma. Regulation of the transcriptional activity of Gli (glioma …

Signaling from Smo to Ci/Gli: conservation and divergence of Hedgehog pathways from Drosophila to vertebrates

D Huangfu, KV Anderson - 2006 - journals.biologists.com
Although the framework of the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway is evolutionarily
conserved, recent studies indicate that fundamental differences exist between Drosophila …

Ski and SnoN, potent negative regulators of TGF-β signaling

J Deheuninck, K Luo - Cell research, 2009 - nature.com
Ski and the closely related SnoN were discovered as oncogenes by their ability to transform
chicken embryo fibroblasts upon overexpression. While elevated expressions of Ski and …

Genomic characterization of Gli-activator targets in sonic hedgehog-mediated neural patterning

SA Vokes, H Ji, S McCuine, T Tenzen, S Giles, S Zhong… - 2007 - journals.biologists.com
Sonic hedgehog (Shh) acts as a morphogen to mediate the specification of distinct cell
identities in the ventral neural tube through a Gli-mediated (Gli1-3) transcriptional network …

The relationship between sonic Hedgehog signaling, cilia, and neural tube defects

JN Murdoch, AJ Copp - Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The Hedgehog signaling pathway is essential for many aspects of normal embryonic
development, including formation and patterning of the neural tube. Absence of the sonic …

Transcriptional cofactors Ski and SnoN are major regulators of the TGF-β/Smad signaling pathway in health and disease

AC Tecalco-Cruz, DG Ríos-López… - Signal transduction and …, 2018 - nature.com
The transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) family plays major pleiotropic roles by regulating
many physiological processes in development and tissue homeostasis. The TGF-β signaling …