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The Role of Smoothened in Cancer [PDF]

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020
Smoothened (SMO) belongs to the Hedgehog (HH) signaling pathway, which regulates cell growth, migration, invasion and stem cells in cancer. The HH signaling pathway includes both canonical and noncanonical pathways. The canonical HH pathway functions through major HH molecules such as HH ligands, PTCH, SMO and GLI, whereas the noncanonical HH pathway ...
Kuo-Shyang Jeng, Ping-Hui Tseng, Chuen-Miin Leu   +2 more
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Mechanisms of Smoothened Regulation in Hedgehog Signaling

Cells, 2021
The seven-transmembrane protein, Smoothened (SMO), has shown to be critical for the hedgehog (HH) signal transduction on the cell membrane (and the cilium in vertebrates).
Zulong Liu, Jianhang Jia, Jia Jianhang   +2 more
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Targeting the Oncoprotein Smoothened by Small Molecules: Focus on Novel Acylguanidine Derivatives as Potent Smoothened Inhibitors

Cells, 2018
Hedgehog-GLI (HH) signaling was originally identified as a critical morphogenetic pathway in embryonic development. Since its discovery, a multitude of studies have reported that HH signaling also plays key roles in a variety of cancer types and in ...
Silvia Pietrobono, Barbara Stecca, Pietrobono Silvia   +2 more
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Cilia-Associated Oxysterols Activate Smoothened [PDF]

Molecular Cell, 2018
Primary cilia are required for Smoothened to transduce vertebrate Hedgehog signals, but how Smoothened accumulates in cilia and is activated is incompletely understood. Here, we identify cilia-associated oxysterols that promote Smoothened accumulation in cilia and activate the Hedgehog pathway.
Alexis Leigh Krup, Eamon F X Byrne, Kelly M Hines   +2 more
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Contributions of Noncanonical Smoothened Signaling During Embryonic Development

Journal of Developmental Biology, 2017
The Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling pathway is active during embryonic development in metazoans, and provides instructional cues necessary for proper tissue patterning.
Stacey K Ogden, Ogden Stacey K
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Patched 1 reduces the accessibility of cholesterol in the outer leaflet of membranes

eLife, 2021
A long-standing mystery in vertebrate Hedgehog signaling is how Patched 1 (PTCH1), the receptor for Hedgehog ligands, inhibits the activity of Smoothened, the protein that transmits the signal across the membrane. We previously proposed (Kinnebrew et al.,
Maia Kinnebrew, Giovanni Luchetti, Ria Sircar, Sara Frigui, Lucrezia Vittoria Viti, Tomoki Naito, Francis Beckert, Yasunori Saheki, Christian Siebold, Arun Radhakrishnan, Rajat Rohatgi   +10 more
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Hedgehog signalling controls sinoatrial node development and atrioventricular cushion formation

Open Biology, 2021
Smoothened is a key receptor of the hedgehog pathway, but the roles of Smoothened in cardiac development remain incompletely understood. In this study, we found that the conditional knockout of Smoothened from the mesoderm impaired the development of the
Chaohui Zhang, Yuxin Li, Jiaheng Cao, Beibei Yu, Kaiyue Zhang, Ke Li, Xinhui Xu, Zhikun Guo, Yinming Liang, Xiao Yang, Zhongzhou Yang, Yunfu Sun, Vesa Kaartinen, Keyue Ding, Jikui Wang   +14 more
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High hedgehog signaling is transduced by a multikinase-dependent switch controlling the apico-basal distribution of the GPCR smoothened

eLife, 2022
The oncogenic G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) Smoothened (SMO) is a key transducer of the hedgehog (HH) morphogen, which plays an essential role in the patterning of epithelial structures.
Marina Gonçalves Antunes, Matthieu Sanial, Vincent Contremoulins, Sandra Carvalho, Anne Plessis, Isabelle Becam   +5 more
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Increasing Ciliary ARL13B Expression Drives Active and Inhibitor-Resistant Smoothened and GLI into Glioma Primary Cilia

Cells, 2023
ADP-ribosylation factor-like protein 13B (ARL13B), a regulatory GTPase and guanine exchange factor (GEF), enriches in primary cilia and promotes tumorigenesis in part by regulating Smoothened (SMO), GLI, and Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) signaling.
Ping Shi, Jia Tian, Julianne C. Mallinger, Dahao Ling, Loic P. Deleyrolle, Jeremy C. McIntyre, Tamara Caspary, Joshua J. Breunig, Matthew R. Sarkisian   +8 more
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Identification of a potent antagonist of smoothened in hedgehog signaling

Cell & Bioscience, 2021
Background Hedgehog signaling is essential to the regulation of embryonic development, tissue homeostasis, and stem cell self-renewal, making it a prime target for developing cancer therapeutics.
Junwan Fan, Haowen Li, Lun Kuang, Zichen Zhao, Wenyan He, Chen Liu, Yongjun Wang, Steven Y. Cheng, Wei Chen   +8 more
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