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2018-10-25 | PXD010421 | Pride
Project description:The WNT/β-catenin signaling pathway is evolutionarily conserved and controls normal embryonic development, adult tissue homeostasis, and regeneration. Aberrant activation or suppression of WNT signaling contributes to cancer initiation and progression, developmental disorders, neurodegeneration, and bone disease. Despite great need and more than 40 years of research, targeted therapies for the WNT pathway have yet to be fully realized. Kinases are exceptionally druggable and occupy key nodes within the WNT signaling network, but several pathway-relevant kinases remain understudied and ‘dark’. Here we studied the function of the CSNK1g subfamily of human kinases. miniTurbo-based proximity biotinylation and mass spectrometry analysis of CSNK1γ1, CSNK1γ2, and CSNK1γ3 revealed numerous established components of the β-catenin-dependent and independent WNT signaling pathways, as well as novel interactors. In gain-of-function experiments using a panel of transcriptional reporters, CSNK1γ3 but not CSNK1γ1 or CSNK1γ2 activated β-catenin-dependent WNT signaling, with minimal effect on other signaling pathways. Within the family, CSNK1γ3 expression uniquely induced LRP6 phosphorylation. Conversely, siRNA-mediated silencing of CSNK1γ3 alone had no impact on WNT signaling, though co-silencing of all three family members decreased WNT pathway activity. We characterized two moderately selective and potent small molecule inhibitors of the CSNK1γ family. These inhibitors and a CSNK1γ3 kinase dead mutant suppressed but did not eliminate WNT-driven LRP6 phosphorylation and β-catenin stabilization. Our data suggest that while CSNK1γ3 expression uniquely drives pathway activity, potential functional redundancy within the family necessitates loss of all three family members to suppress the WNT signaling pathway.
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2008-06-16 | E-GEOD-8818 | biostudies-arrayexpress
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2020-08-14 | PXD020478 | Pride
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2020-03-31 | GSE140963 | GEO
Project description:To determine the critical mediator of TRIB3-enhanced Wnt/beta-catenin signaling, we examined the expression profile of genes that might regulate Wnt/beta-catenin by using mRNA microarrays. Aberrant activation of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway is a major reason for the tumorigenesis of Colon cancer. However, no specific drug targeting this pathway has been in the market. Surgery combined with cytotoxic drugs are still the major therapy methods toward colon cancer. These highlighted the need for therapeutics with alternative mechanisms of action. Here we report that the elevated TRIB3 expression associates positively with Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway. TRIB3 interacts with beta-catenin and TCF4 to enhance the associations between TCF4/beta-catenin target genes’ promoters, which upregulates the transcriptional activity of beta-catenin, thus to promote the CSC stemness and colon cancer tumorigenesis.
2020-11-17 | GSE107094 | GEO
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2012-10-29 | GSE41892 | GEO
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2014-08-20 | E-GEOD-50859 | biostudies-arrayexpress