The Hedgehog signalling pathway and its role in cancer (original) (raw)

2001

Abstract

The Hedgehog signalling pathway and its role in cancer Gerald Saldanha Mutations in Hedgehog (Hh) pathway genes such as Patched1 are of established importance in Basal cell carcinoma (BCC). However, BCC is unusual because it has indolent behaviour and rarely metastasises. Hh pathway gene mutations are rare in cancers with more typical malignant behaviour, leading to the hypothesis that the pathway plays an important role in BCC but has limited importance in cancers with typical malignant behaviour. This has been addressed in three ways. First, evidence that superficial BCC is a clonal proliferation driven by alterations at the Patched1 locus was sought. Second, evidence of Wnt pathway activation in BCC was sought by looking for nuclear accumulation of p-catenin, because Wnt is a putative Hedgehog pathway target gene. Third, to determine whether the Hh pathway was important in a cancer with typical malignant behaviour, breast cancer was studied. In superficial BCC, microdissection of...

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