Wnt/β-catenin signaling in colorectal cancer: Is therapeutic targeting even possible?

C Disoma, Y Zhou, S Li, J Peng, Z Xia - Biochimie, 2022 - Elsevier
The Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway has been implicated as the central mechanism that
drives colorectal carcinogenesis. Its activation is historically due to mutation on APC …

Small-molecule inhibitors of tankyrases as prospective therapeutics for cancer

M Yu, Y Yang, M Sykes, S Wang - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Tankyrases are multifunctional poly (adenosine diphosphate-ribose) polymerases that
regulate diverse biological processes including telomere maintenance and cellular …

Single-keratinocyte transcriptomic analyses identify different clonal types and proliferative potential mediated by FOXM1 in human epidermal stem cells

E Enzo, A Secone Seconetti, M Forcato… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Autologous epidermal cultures restore a functional epidermis on burned patients.
Transgenic epidermal grafts do so also in genetic skin diseases such as Junctional …

APC/PIK3CA mutations and β-catenin status predict tankyrase inhibitor sensitivity of patient-derived colorectal cancer cells

M Chen, T Mashima, T Oishi, Y Muramatsu… - British Journal of …, 2024 - nature.com
Background Aberrant WNT/β-catenin signaling drives carcinogenesis. Tankyrases poly
(ADP-ribosyl) ate and destabilize AXINs, β-catenin repressors. Tankyrase inhibitors block …

Therapeutic targeting of cancer stem cells prevents resistance of colorectal cancer cells to MEK inhibition

A Lamichhane, P Shahi Thakuri, S Singh… - ACS Pharmacology & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Drug resistance is a leading cause for the failure of cancer treatments. Plasticity of cancer
cells to acquire stem cell-like properties enables them to escape drug toxicity through …

Complex roles of Hippo-YAP/TAZ signaling in hepatocellular carcinoma

H Shi, Y Zou, W Zhong, Z Li, X Wang, Y Yin, D Li… - Journal of Cancer …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background The Hippo signaling pathway is an evolutionarily conserved signaling
module that controls organ size in different species, and the disorder of the Hippo pathway …

A small-molecule tankyrase inhibitor reduces glioma stem cell proliferation and sphere formation

KS Kierulf-Vieira, CJ Sandberg, J Waaler, K Lund… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Evidence suggests that the growth and therapeutic resistance of glioblastoma (GBM) may be
enabled by a population of glioma stem cells (GSCs) that are regulated by typical stem cell …

Long-term retinal protection by MEK inhibition in Pax6 haploinsufficiency mice

JD Cole, KM McHaney, B Rabiee, J Gao… - Experimental eye …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aniridia is a panocular condition characterized by impaired eye development and vision,
which is mainly due to the haploinsufficiency of the paired-box-6 (PAX6) gene. Like what is …

Study of the mechanism by which Xiaoyan decoction combined with E7449 regulates tumorigenesis in lung adenocarcinoma

X Zheng, Y Han, L Gu, S Gao, Y Lv… - Journal of Cellular and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
TNKS is a new target for the treatment of lung adenocarcinoma, the synergistic effects of the
TCM compound Xiaoyan decoction and the TNKS inhibitor E7449 in the intervention on …

A small molecule promoting neural differentiation suppresses cancer stem cells in colorectal cancer

JK Choi, IS Kwak, SB Yoon, H Cho, BS Moon - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a tumor cell subpopulation that drives tumor progression and
metastasis, leading to a poor overall survival of patients. In colorectal cancer (CRC), the …