Notch signaling pathway: architecture, disease, and therapeutics

B Zhou, W Lin, Y Long, Y Yang, H Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The NOTCH gene was identified approximately 110 years ago. Classical studies have
revealed that NOTCH signaling is an evolutionarily conserved pathway. NOTCH receptors …

Notch as a tumour suppressor

CS Nowell, F Radtke - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
The Notch signalling cascade is an evolutionarily conserved pathway that has a crucial role
in regulating development and homeostasis in various tissues. The cellular processes and …

CODA: quantitative 3D reconstruction of large tissues at cellular resolution

AL Kiemen, AM Braxton, MP Grahn, KS Han, JM Babu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A central challenge in biology is obtaining high-content, high-resolution information while
analyzing tissue samples at volumes relevant to disease progression. We address this here …

Phase I clinical trial repurposing all-trans retinoic acid as a stromal targeting agent for pancreatic cancer

HM Kocher, B Basu, FEM Froeling, D Sarker… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Pre-clinical models have shown that targeting pancreatic stellate cells with all-trans-retinoic-
acid (ATRA) reprograms pancreatic stroma to suppress pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma …

Identification of Sox9-dependent acinar-to-ductal reprogramming as the principal mechanism for initiation of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

JL Kopp, G von Figura, E Mayes, FF Liu, CL Dubois… - Cancer cell, 2012 - cell.com
Tumors are largely classified by histologic appearance, yet morphologic features do not
necessarily predict cellular origin. To determine the origin of pancreatic ductal …

Notch signalling in solid tumours: a little bit of everything but not all the time

P Ranganathan, KL Weaver, AJ Capobianco - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2011 - nature.com
The discovery of Notch in Drosophila melanogaster nearly a century ago opened the door to
an ever-widening understanding of cellular processes that are controlled or influenced by …

To differentiate or not—routes towards metastasis

T Brabletz - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2012 - nature.com
Why are many metastases differentiated? Invading and disseminating carcinoma cells can
undergo an epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT), which is associated with a gain of …

From fly wings to targeted cancer therapies: a centennial for notch signaling

P Ntziachristos, JS Lim, J Sage, I Aifantis - Cancer cell, 2014 - cell.com
Since Notch phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster were first identified 100 years ago,
Notch signaling has been extensively characterized as a regulator of cell-fate decisions in a …

[HTML][HTML] EGF receptor signaling is essential for k-ras oncogene-driven pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

C Navas, I Hernández-Porras, AJ Schuhmacher… - Cancer cell, 2012 - cell.com
Clinical evidence indicates that mutation/activation of EGF receptors (EGFRs) is mutually
exclusive with the presence of K-RAS oncogenes in lung and colon tumors. We have …

DCLK1 marks a morphologically distinct subpopulation of cells with stem cell properties in preinvasive pancreatic cancer

JM Bailey, J Alsina, ZA Rasheed, FM McAllister, YY Fu… - Gastroenterology, 2014 - Elsevier
Background & Aims As in other tumor types, progression of pancreatic cancer may require a
functionally unique population of cancer stem cells. Although such cells have been identified …