Inadequate uterine receptivity is responsible for two-third of implanting failures. Aim of the study was to investigate the role of epithelial adherence and tight-junction molecules expressed by human endometrium in predicting womens' fertility outcome.
1The Wnt/beta-catenin pathway is often found deregulated incancer. The aberrant accumulation of beta-catenin in the cellnucleus results in the development of various malignancies. Specific drugs against this signaling pathway for clinical treat-ments have not been approved yet. Herein we report inhibitorsof beta-catenin signaling of potential therapeutic value asanticancer agents.
Nuclear activated β-catenin plays a causative role in colorectal cancers (CRC) but remains an elusive therapeutic target. Using human CRC cells harboring different Wnt/β-catenin pathway mutations in APC/KRAS or β-catenin/KRAS genes, and both genetic and pharmacological knockdown approaches, we show that oncogenic β-catenin signaling negatively regulates the expression of NHERF1 (Na+/H+ exchanger 3 regulating factor 1), a PDZ-adaptor protein that is usually lost or downregulated in early dysplastic adenomas to exacerbate nuclear β-catenin activity.
LDL receptor–related proteins 6 (LRP6) is a type I transmembrane receptor (C-terminus in cytosol), which appears to be essential in numerous biological processes, since it is an essential co-receptor of Wnt ligands for canonical β-catenin dependent signal transduction. It was shown that tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), physically interacting with LRP6, induces protein phosphorylation, which may have large implication in the regulation of neural processes.
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