ReviewNature chemical biology2020
Cholesterol access in cellular membranes controls Hedgehog signaling.
Review in Nature chemical biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 94 papers.
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- The GPCR Smoothened on cholinergic interneurons modulates dopamine-associated acetylcholine dynamics, learning, and effort management.iScience · 2026Article
- Visualization of the interaction between sphingomyelin and cholesterol in lipid bilayer membranes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Sphingosine-1-phosphate induces pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell proliferation, migration and pulmonary arterial remodeling by modulating sonic hedgehog signaling effector FoxM1.Chinese medical journal · 2026Article
- Pathophysiological significance of cholesterol in ciliopathies.Fujita medical journal · 2026Article
- Effects of fatty acids and cholesterol on functions and behavior of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells.iScience · 2026Review
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- The Role of the Hedgehog Pathway in Alcohol-Induced Birth Defects.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- Oncogenic B-Raf proto-oncogene, serine/threonine kinase-mediated hedgehog signalling in the pathogenesis and targeted therapy of melanoma.World journal of clinical oncology · 2025Review
- Plasma membrane accessible cholesterol is regulated by ACC1 and lipid droplets.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Association of Lipid Profile With Cardiovascular Diseases and All-Cause Death: A 2-Decade Follow-Up of the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Lysosomal glucocerebrosidase is needed for ciliary Hedgehog signaling: A convergent pathway contributing to Parkinson's disease.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Multifaceted roles of sonic hedgehog signaling in mammalian inner ear development.Developmental biology · 2025Review
- Tetraspanin-enriched membrane domains regulate vascular leakage by altering membrane cholesterol accessibility to balance antagonistic GTPases.Nature cardiovascular research · 2025Article
- Advances in mass spectrometry of lipids for the investigation of Niemann-pick type C disease.Lipids in health and disease · 2025Review
- Hedgehog pathway, cell cycle, and primary cilium.Cell death discovery · 2025Review
- Dysregulation of cholesterol homeostasis in cancer pathogenesis.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025Review
- Cholesterol ensures ciliary polycystin-2 localization to prevent polycystic kidney disease.Life science alliance · 2025Article
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Abstract
The Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway coordinates cell-cell communication in development and regeneration. Defects in this pathway underlie diseases ranging from birth defects to cancer. Hh signals are transmitted across the plasma membrane by two proteins, Patched 1 (PTCH1) and Smoothened (SMO). PTCH1, a transporter-like tumor-suppressor protein, binds to Hh ligands, but SMO, a G-protein-coupled-receptor family oncoprotein, transmits the Hh signal across the membrane. Recent structural, biochemical and cell-biological studies have converged at the surprising model that a specific pool of plasma membrane cholesterol, termed accessible cholesterol, functions as a second messenger that conveys the signal between PTCH1 and SMO. Beyond solving a central puzzle in Hh signaling, these studies are revealing new principles in membrane biology: how proteins respond to and remodel cholesterol accessibility in membranes and how the cholesterol composition of organelle membranes is used to regulate protein function.
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