2003
The hedgehog pathway and developmental disorders
Bale A. The hedgehog pathway and developmental disorders. 2003, 258-272. DOI: 10.4324/9780203450420-14.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHedgehog signal transduction pathwaySignal transduction pathwaysDrosophila melanogasterDevelopmental biologistsN-terminal fragmentTransduction pathwaysActive N-terminal fragmentFruit flyTissue specificityAutocatalytic cleavageHuman diseasesWnt pathwayHedgehog pathwayDownstream membersPathwayHedgehogTwo-hit modelVariety of tumorsMutationsGermline mutationsAutosomal dominant disorderBirth defectsMelanogasterDominant disorderEmbryogenesis
1999
The hedgehog signalling pathway in tumorigenesis and development
Wicking C, Smyth I, Bale A. The hedgehog signalling pathway in tumorigenesis and development. Oncogene 1999, 18: 7844-7851. PMID: 10630637, DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1203282.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDownstream targetsNovel downstream targetTumor formationEmbryonic patterningDysregulation of hedgehogResponsive genesHuman patched geneRange of tissuesHedgehog signalingConstitutive activationMolecular processesTumorigenesis resultsCell typesHedgehogCell surfaceReceptor complexPatched genePathwayGenesKey membersTumorigenesisSporadic formsDysregulationSignalingTumor types
1996
A Mammalian patched Homolog Is Expressed in Target Tissues of sonic hedgehog and Maps to a Region Associated with Developmental Abnormalities (∗)
Hahn H, Christiansen J, Wicking C, Zaphiropoulos P, Chidambaram A, Gerrard B, Vorechovsky I, Bale A, Toftgard R, Dean M, Wainwright B. A Mammalian patched Homolog Is Expressed in Target Tissues of sonic hedgehog and Maps to a Region Associated with Developmental Abnormalities (∗). Journal Of Biological Chemistry 1996, 271: 12125-12128. PMID: 8647801, DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.21.12125.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLimb budSonic hedgehogSegment polarity genesIntegral membrane proteinsVentral neural tubePolarity genesHydropathy analysisPatched proteinCorrect patterningPutative proteinImaginal discsMembrane proteinsDrosophila hedgehogHuman PatchedCDNA sequencePosterior ectodermMurine homologPatched expressionMouse embryosClose functional relationshipNeural tubeLarval segmentsRegion AssociatedAmino acidsHedgehog