Lysophosphatidic acid signaling in cancer cells: what makes LPA so special?

P Balijepalli, CC Sitton, KE Meier - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) refers to a family of simple phospholipids that act as ligands for
G protein-coupled receptors. While LPA exerts effects throughout the body in normal …

Lysophosphatidic acid and its receptors: pharmacology and therapeutic potential in atherosclerosis and vascular disease

Y Zhou, PJ Little, HT Ta, S Xu, D Kamato - Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2019 - Elsevier
Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) is a collective name for a set of bioactive lipid species. Via six
widely distributed G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), LPA elicits a plethora of biological …

β-Arrestin/Ral signaling regulates lysophosphatidic acid–mediated migration and invasion of human breast tumor cells

TT Li, M Alemayehu, AI Aziziyeh, C Pape… - Molecular Cancer …, 2009 - AACR
The lipid mediator lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) plays a role in cancer progression and
signals via specific G protein–coupled receptors, LPA1-3. LPA has been shown to enhance …

An endocytic-secretory cycle participates in Toxoplasma gondii in motility

S Gras, E Jimenez-Ruiz, CM Klinger, K Schneider… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Apicomplexan parasites invade host cells in an active process involving their ability to move
by gliding motility. While the acto-myosin system of the parasite plays a crucial role in the …

Endocytosis of murine norovirus 1 into murine macrophages is dependent on dynamin II and cholesterol

JW Perry, CE Wobus - Journal of virology, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Although noroviruses cause the vast majority of nonbacterial gastroenteritis in humans, little
is known about their life cycle, including viral entry. Murine norovirus (MNV) is the only …

Japanese encephalitis virus enters rat neuroblastoma cells via a pH-dependent, dynamin and caveola-mediated endocytosis pathway

YZ Zhu, QQ Xu, DG Wu, H Ren, P Zhao… - Journal of …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus and one of the most
common agents of viral encephalitis. The infectious entry process of JEV into host cells …

Statin-Induced Chronic Cholesterol Depletion Switches GPCR Endocytosis and Trafficking: Insights from the Serotonin1A Receptor

GA Kumar, A Chattopadhyay - ACS chemical neuroscience, 2019 - ACS Publications
Endocytosis is a key regulatory mechanism adopted by G protein-coupled receptors
(GPCRs) to modulate downstream signaling responses within a stringent spatiotemporal …

Membrane cholesterol regulates endocytosis and trafficking of the serotonin1A receptor: insights from acute cholesterol depletion

GA Kumar, A Chattopadhyay - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular and Cell …, 2021 - Elsevier
Endocytosis and intracellular trafficking constitute important regulatory features associated
with G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) function. GPCR endocytosis involves several …

LPA receptor 1 (LPAR1) is a novel interaction partner of Filamin A that promotes Filamin A phosphorylation, MRTF-A transcriptional activity and oncogene-induced …

A Konopa, MA Meier, MJ Franz, E Bernardinelli… - Oncogenesis, 2022 - nature.com
Myocardin-related transcription factors A and B (MRTFs) are coactivators of Serum
Response Factor (SRF), which controls fundamental biological processes such as cell …

β-Arrestin2 Regulates Lysophosphatidic Acid-Induced Human Breast Tumor Cell Migration and Invasion via Rap1 and IQGAP1

M Alemayehu, M Dragan, C Pape, I Siddiqui… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
β-arrestins play critical roles in chemotaxis and cytoskeletal reorganization downstream of
several receptor types, including G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), which are targets for …