Caught up in a Wnt storm: Wnt signaling in cancer

RH Giles, JH Van Es, H Clevers - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2003 - Elsevier
The Wnt signaling pathway, named for its most upstream ligands, the Wnts, is involved in
various differentiation events during embryonic development and leads to tumor formation …

Mining the Wnt pathway for cancer therapeutics

N Barker, H Clevers - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2006 - nature.com
Aberrant activation of the Wnt pathway is implicated in driving the formation of various
human cancers, particularly those of the digestive tract. Inhibition of aberrant Wnt pathway …

Fusobacterium nucleatum promotes colorectal carcinogenesis by modulating E-cadherin/β-catenin signaling via its FadA adhesin

MR Rubinstein, X Wang, W Liu, Y Hao, G Cai… - Cell host & …, 2013 - cell.com
Fusobacterium nucleatum (Fn) has been associated with colorectal cancer (CRC), but
causality and underlying mechanisms remain to be established. We demonstrate that Fn …

Recurrent somatic mutation of FAT1 in multiple human cancers leads to aberrant Wnt activation

LGT Morris, AM Kaufman, Y Gong, D Ramaswami… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Aberrant Wnt signaling can drive cancer development. In many cancer types, the genetic
basis of Wnt pathway activation remains incompletely understood. Here, we report recurrent …

Small-molecule antagonists of the oncogenic Tcf/β-catenin protein complex

M Lepourcelet, YNP Chen, DS France, H Wang… - Cancer cell, 2004 - cell.com
Key molecular lesions in colorectal and other cancers cause β-catenin-dependent
transactivation of T cell factor (Tcf)-dependent genes. Disruption of this signal represents an …

Mechanism of apoptosis induced by curcumin in colorectal cancer

NI Ismail, I Othman, F Abas, N H. Lajis… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the top three cancer with higher incident and mortality
rate worldwide. It is estimated that about over than 1.1 million of death and 2.2 million new …

Autolysosomal β‐catenin degradation regulates Wnt‐autophagy‐p62 crosstalk

KJ Petherick, AC Williams, JD Lane… - The EMBO …, 2013 - embopress.org
The Wnt/β‐catenin signalling and autophagy pathways each play important roles during
development, adult tissue homeostasis and tumorigenesis. Here we identify the Wnt/β …

Clinical Significance of CTNNB1 Mutation and Wnt Pathway Activation in Endometrioid Endometrial Carcinoma

Y Liu, L Patel, GB Mills, KH Lu, AK Sood… - Journal of the …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background Endometrioid endometrial carcinoma (EEC) is the most common form of
endometrial carcinoma. The heterogeneous clinical course of EEC is an obstacle to …

Is β-catenin a druggable target for cancer therapy?

C Cui, X Zhou, W Zhang, Y Qu, X Ke - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Mutations of canonical Wnt signaling pathway genes frequently occur in cancer and lead to
abnormal accumulation of the key effector β-catenin. Over the past decades, a number of …

Targeted disruption of the BCL9/β-catenin complex inhibits oncogenic Wnt signaling

K Takada, D Zhu, GH Bird, K Sukhdeo… - Science translational …, 2012 - science.org
Deregulated Wnt/β-catenin signaling underlies the pathogenesis of a broad range of human
cancers, yet the development of targeted therapies to disrupt the resulting aberrant …