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 …

The Wnt signaling pathway in cancer

Y Duchartre, YM Kim, M Kahn - Critical reviews in oncology/hematology, 2016 - Elsevier
The Wnt signaling pathway is critically involved in both the development and homeostasis of
tissues via regulation of their endogenous stem cells. Aberrant Wnt signaling has been …

Logic-gated ROR1 chimeric antigen receptor expression rescues T cell-mediated toxicity to normal tissues and enables selective tumor targeting

S Srivastava, AI Salter, D Liggitt, S Yechan-Gunja… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Many potential targets for CAR-T cells in solid tumors are expressed in some normal tissues,
raising concern for off-tumor toxicity. Following lymphodepletion, CAR-T cells targeting the …

ROR1: an orphan becomes apparent

TJ Kipps - Blood, The Journal of the American Society of …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
Since its initial identification in 1992 as a possible class 1 cell-surface receptor without a
known parent ligand, receptor tyrosine kinase–like orphan receptor 1 (ROR1) has stimulated …

The affinity of antigen-binding domain on the antitumor efficacy of CAR T cells: Moderate is better

R Mao, W Kong, Y He - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The overall efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor modified T cells (CARTs) remain limited in
solid tumors despite intensive studies that aim at targeting multiple antigens, enhancing …

The WNT/ROR pathway in cancer: from signaling to therapeutic intervention

K Menck, S Heinrichs, C Baden, A Bleckmann - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
The WNT pathway is one of the major signaling cascades frequently deregulated in human
cancer. While research had initially focused on signal transduction centered on β-catenin as …

Zilovertamab vedotin targeting of ROR1 as therapy for lymphoid cancers

ML Wang, JC Barrientos, RR Furman, M Mei… - NEJM …, 2022 - evidence.nejm.org
Background Receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 1 (ROR1) is an oncofetal protein
present on many cancers. Zilovertamab vedotin (ZV) is an antibody–drug conjugate …

Analysis of ROR1 protein expression in human cancer and normal tissues

A Balakrishnan, T Goodpaster… - Clinical Cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Purpose: This study examines cell surface ROR1 expression in human tumors and normal
tissues. ROR1 is considered a promising target for cancer therapy due to putative tumor …

Phase I trial: cirmtuzumab inhibits ROR1 signaling and stemness signatures in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia

MY Choi, GF Widhopf, EM Ghia, RL Kidwell, MK Hasan… - Cell Stem Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Cirmtuzumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody (mAb) that targets ROR1, an
oncoembryonic orphan receptor for Wnt5a found on cancer stem cells (CSCs). Aberrant …

ROR1 targeting with the antibody-drug conjugate VLS-101 is effective in Richter syndrome patient–derived xenograft mouse models

T Vaisitti, F Arruga, N Vitale, TT Lee… - Blood, The Journal …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
Richter syndrome (RS) represents the transformation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL),
typically to an aggressive lymphoma. Treatment options for RS are limited and the disease is …