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Mechanism and ultrasensitivity in Hedgehog signaling revealed by Patched1 disease mutations.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 9 Feb 2021
Petrov Kostadin, de Almeida Magalhaes Taciani, Salic Adrian
Abstract excerpt
Hedgehog signaling is fundamental in animal embryogenesis, and its dysregulation causes cancer and birth defects. The pathway is triggered when the Hedgehog ligand inhibits the Patched1 membrane receptor, relieving repression that Patched1 exerts on the GPCR-like protein Smoothened. While it is clear how loss-of-function Patched1 mutations cause hyperactive Hedgehog signaling and cancer, how other Patched1...
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