Wnt/β-catenin signaling in cancers and targeted therapies

F Yu, C Yu, F Li, Y Zuo, Y Wang, L Yao, C Wu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Wnt/β-catenin signaling has been broadly implicated in human cancers and experimental
cancer models of animals. Aberrant activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling is tightly linked with …

WNT signaling in cardiac and vascular disease

S Foulquier, EP Daskalopoulos, G Lluri… - Pharmacological …, 2018 - Elsevier
WNT signaling is an elaborate and complex collection of signal transduction pathways
mediated by multiple signaling molecules. WNT signaling is critically important for …

Surrogate Wnt agonists that phenocopy canonical Wnt and β-catenin signalling

CY Janda, LT Dang, C You, J Chang, W De Lau… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Wnt proteins modulate cell proliferation and differentiation and the self-renewal of stem cells
by inducing β-catenin-dependent signalling through the Wnt receptor frizzled (FZD) and the …

Structural basis of Wnt recognition by Frizzled

CY Janda, D Waghray, AM Levin, C Thomas… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Wnts are lipid-modified morphogens that play critical roles in development principally
through engagement of Frizzled receptors. The 3.25 angstrom structure of Xenopus Wnt8 …

Frizzled and LRP5/6 receptors for Wnt/β-catenin signaling

BT MacDonald, X He - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2012 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Frizzled and LRP5/6 are Wnt receptors that upon activation lead to stabilization of
cytoplasmic β-catenin. In this study, we review the current knowledge of these two families of …

Wnt signaling in triple-negative breast cancer

SÖG Pohl, N Brook, M Agostino, F Arfuso, AP Kumar… - Oncogenesis, 2017 - nature.com
Wnt signaling regulates a variety of cellular processes, including cell fate, differentiation,
proliferation and stem cell pluripotency. Aberrant Wnt signaling is a hallmark of many …

Three decades of Wnts: a personal perspective on how a scientific field developed

R Nusse, H Varmus - The EMBO journal, 2012 - embopress.org
Wnt genes and components of Wnt signalling pathways have been implicated in a wide
spectrum of important biological phenomena, ranging from early organismal development to …

A bispecific antibody targeting sclerostin and DKK-1 promotes bone mass accrual and fracture repair

M Florio, K Gunasekaran, M Stolina, X Li, L Liu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Inhibition of the Wnt antagonist sclerostin increases bone mass in patients with osteoporosis
and in preclinical animal models. Here we show increased levels of the Wnt antagonist …

Complement C1q activates canonical Wnt signaling and promotes aging-related phenotypes

AT Naito, T Sumida, S Nomura, ML Liu, T Higo… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Wnt signaling plays critical roles in development of various organs and pathogenesis of
many diseases, and augmented Wnt signaling has recently been implicated in mammalian …

Structures of LRP2 reveal a molecular machine for endocytosis

A Beenken, G Cerutti, J Brasch, Y Guo, Z Sheng… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor-related protein 2 (LRP2 or megalin) is
representative of the phylogenetically conserved subfamily of giant LDL receptor-related …