Article
Proteolytic cleavage of Notch: "HIT and RUN".
Current molecular medicine - 1 Jun 2011
van Tetering G, Vooijs M
Abstract excerpt
The Notch pathway is a highly conserved signaling pathway in multicellular eukaryotes essential in controlling spatial patterning, morphogenesis and homeostasis in embryonic and adult tissues. Notch proteins coordinate cell-cell communication through receptor-ligand interactions between adjacent cells. Notch signaling is frequently deregulated by oncogenic mutation or overexpression in many cancer types. Notch...
Topics
- ADAM Proteins
- Amyloid Precursor Protein Secretases
- Animals
- Cell Communication
- Embryonic Development
- Eukaryota
- Furin
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Homeostasis
- Humans
- Morphogenesis
- Mutation
- Neoplasms
- Oligopeptides
- Presenilins
- Receptors, Notch
- Signal Transduction
- Species Specificity
