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 …

New routes in GPCR/β-arrestin-driven signaling in cancer progression and metastasis

A Bagnato, L Rosanò - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Tumor cells acquire invasive and metastatic behavior by sensing changes in the localization
and activation of signaling pathways, which in turn determine changes in actin cytoskeleton …

Smoking-mediated upregulation of the androgen pathway leads to increased SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility

J Chakladar, N Shende, WT Li, M Rajasekaran… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic is marked by a wide range of clinical disease courses, ranging
from asymptomatic to deadly. There have been many studies seeking to explore the …

Inhibition of BMI1 induces autophagy-mediated necroptosis

A Dey, SB Mustafi, S Saha, S Kumar Dhar Dwivedi… - Autophagy, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The clonal self-renewal property conferred by BMI1 is instrumental in maintenance of not
only normal stem cells but also cancer-initiating cells from several different malignancies …

β-arrestin1/YAP/mutant p53 complexes orchestrate the endothelin A receptor signaling in high-grade serous ovarian cancer

P Tocci, R Cianfrocca, V Di Castro, L Rosanò… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The limited clinical response observed in high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HG-SOC) with
high frequency of TP53 mutations (mutp53) might be related to mutp53-driven oncogenic …

β-Arrestins: multitask scaffolds orchestrating the where and when in cell signalling

SA Laporte, MGH Scott - Beta-Arrestins: Methods and Protocols, 2019 - Springer
The β-arrestins (β-arrs) were initially appreciated for the roles they play in the
desensitization and endocytosis of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). They are now also …

β-arrestin1 at the cross-road of endothelin-1 signaling in cancer

L Rosanò, A Bagnato - Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer …, 2016 - Springer
The advent of targeted therapeutics in human cancer has begun to find novel druggable
targets and, in this context, the endothelin-1 receptor (ET-1R), namely ET A receptor (ET AR) …

Minireview: Role of intracellular scaffolding proteins in the regulation of endocrine G protein-coupled receptor signaling

C Walther, SSG Ferguson - Molecular Endocrinology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The majority of hormones stimulates and mediates their signal transduction via G protein-
coupled receptors (GPCRs). The signal is transmitted into the cell due to the association of …

Role of ARRB1 in prognosis and immunotherapy: A Pan-Cancer analysis

Y Ye, H Jiang, Y Wu, G Wang, Y Huang… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background: β-arrestin1 (ARRB1), was originally identified as a multifunctional adaptor
protein. Although ARRB1 has recently been shown to also play an important role in tumor …

ARRB2 promotes colorectal cancer growth through triggering WTAP

H Liang, Z Lin, Y Ye, R Luo… - Acta biochimica et …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most lethal cancers worldwide. The expression of β-
arrestin2 (β-Arr2, ARRB2) in CRC has been well investigated; however, its exact mechanism …