Wnt signaling in cancer: therapeutic targeting of Wnt signaling beyond β-catenin and the destruction complex

YS Jung, JI Park - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Wnt/β-catenin signaling is implicated in many physiological processes, including
development, tissue homeostasis, and tissue regeneration. In human cancers, Wnt/β-catenin …

Wnt signaling in cancer

T Zhan, N Rindtorff, M Boutros - Oncogene, 2017 - nature.com
Wnt signaling is one of the key cascades regulating development and stemness, and has
also been tightly associated with cancer. The role of Wnt signaling in carcinogenesis has …

Transcriptional regulation of Wnt/β-catenin pathway in colorectal cancer

J Bian, M Dannappel, C Wan, R Firestein - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway exerts integral roles in embryogenesis and adult
homeostasis. Aberrant activation of the pathway is implicated in growth-associated diseases …

Targeting EZH2 in cancer

KH Kim, CWM Roberts - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Recent genomic studies have resulted in an emerging understanding of the role of
chromatin regulators in the development of cancer. EZH2, a histone methyl transferase …

Long noncoding RNA MALAT1 promotes aggressive renal cell carcinoma through Ezh2 and interacts with miR-205

H Hirata, Y Hinoda, V Shahryari, G Deng, K Nakajima… - Cancer research, 2015 - AACR
Recently, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNA) have emerged as new gene regulators and
prognostic markers in several cancers, including renal cell carcinoma (RCC). In this study …

Epigenetic regulation of cancer progression by EZH2: from biological insights to therapeutic potential

L Gan, Y Yang, Q Li, Y Feng, T Liu, W Guo - Biomarker research, 2018 - Springer
Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2), a histone methyltransferase and a catalytic
component of PRC2, catalyzes tri-methylation of histone H3 at Lys 27 (H3K27me3) to …

Design and synthesis of EZH2-based PROTACs to degrade the PRC2 complex for targeting the noncatalytic activity of EZH2

Z Liu, X Hu, Q Wang, X Wu, Q Zhang… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
EZH2 mediates both PRC2-dependent gene silencing via catalyzing H3K27me3 and PRC2-
independent transcriptional activation in various cancers. Given its oncogenic role in …

Blocking non-enzymatic functions by PROTAC-mediated targeted protein degradation

D Sun, J Zhang, G Dong, S He… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The non-enzymatic functions of target proteins play key roles in the regulation of various cell
signaling pathways and are closely related to numerous human diseases. However …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation and role of EZH2 in cancer

H Yamaguchi, MC Hung - Cancer research and treatment …, 2014 - synapse.koreamed.org
Abstract Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is the epigenetic regulator that induces
histone H3 lysine 27 methylation (H3K27me3) and silences specific gene transcription …

Wnt signaling in cancer stem cell biology

F De Sousa e Melo, L Vermeulen - Cancers, 2016 - mdpi.com
Aberrant regulation of Wnt signaling is a common theme seen across many tumor types.
Decades of research have unraveled the epigenetic and genetic alterations that result in …