Wnt signaling pathway: A comprehensive review

R Hayat, M Manzoor, A Hussain - Cell biology international, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wnt signaling is an evolutionary cell‐to‐cell coordination mechanism and it is highly critical
for a variety of physiological processes of an organism's body, including stem cell …

Wnt/β-catenin signaling: components, mechanisms, and diseases

BT MacDonald, K Tamai, X He - Developmental cell, 2009 - cell.com
Signaling by the Wnt family of secreted glycolipoproteins via the transcriptional coactivator β-
catenin controls embryonic development and adult homeostasis. Here we review recent …

[HTML][HTML] Humanized mouse liver reveals endothelial control of essential hepatic metabolic functions

E Kaffe, M Roulis, J Zhao, R Qu, E Sefik, H Mirza… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Hepatocytes, the major metabolic hub of the body, execute functions that are human-
specific, altered in human disease, and currently thought to be regulated through endocrine …

Osteoblast-derived WNT16 represses osteoclastogenesis and prevents cortical bone fragility fractures

S Movérare-Skrtic, P Henning, X Liu, K Nagano… - Nature medicine, 2014 - nature.com
The WNT16 locus is a major determinant of cortical bone thickness and nonvertebral
fracture risk in humans. The disability, mortality and costs caused by osteoporosis-induced …

Active and water-soluble form of lipidated Wnt protein is maintained by a serum glycoprotein afamin/α-albumin

E Mihara, H Hirai, H Yamamoto, K Tamura-Kawakami… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Wnt plays important role during development and in various diseases. Because Wnts are
lipidated and highly hydrophobic, they can only be purified in the presence of detergents …

Wnt signaling and injury repair

JL Whyte, AA Smith, JA Helms - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2012 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Wnt signaling is activated by wounding and participates in every subsequent stage of the
healing process from the control of inflammation and programmed cell death, to the …

Stem cell proliferation is induced by apoptotic bodies from dying cells during epithelial tissue maintenance

CK Brock, ST Wallin, OE Ruiz, KM Samms… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Epithelial tissues require the removal and replacement of damaged cells to sustain a
functional barrier. Dying cells provide instructive cues that can influence surrounding cells to …

International union of basic and clinical pharmacology. LXXX. The class Frizzled receptors

G Schulte - Pharmacological reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
The receptor class Frizzled, which has recently been categorized as a separate group of G
protein-coupled receptors by the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology …

Wnt proteins promote bone regeneration

S Minear, P Leucht, J Jiang, B Liu, A Zeng… - Science translational …, 2010 - science.org
The Wnt signaling pathway plays a central role in bone development and homeostasis. In
most cases, Wnt ligands promote bone growth, which has led to speculation that Wnt factors …

Reconstitution of a Frizzled8· Wnt3a· LRP6 signaling complex reveals multiple Wnt and Dkk1 binding sites on LRP6

E Bourhis, C Tam, Y Franke, JF Bazan, J Ernst… - Journal of Biological …, 2010 - ASBMB
Wnt/β-catenin signaling is initiated at the cell surface by association of secreted Wnt with its
receptors Frizzled (Fz) and low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 5/6 (LRP5/6). The …