LEF1, lymphoid enhancer binding factor 1, 51176

N. diseases: 211; N. variants: 13
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0023434
Disease: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE LEF1 is a sensitive and specific marker for CLL and is helpful in the diagnosis of diagnostically challenging small B-cell lymphomas. 28395058 2017
CUI: C0023434
Disease: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE These data support the notion that CLL can differentiate into ISC and that this triggers decreased leukemic cell survival secondary to the down regulation of LEF-1 and decreased Wnt pathway activation. 21998751 2011
CUI: C0023434
Disease: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Moreover, we identified lymphoid enhancer-binding factor 1 (LEF1), a downstream effector of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway, as a transcription repressor of CYLD in CLL. 22157808 2012
CUI: C0023434
Disease: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Additionally, due to aberrant LEF1 activity resulting in cancer progression, knockdown and inhibition treatments designed to target LEF1 have proven effective in alleviating cancer growth, migration, and invasion in CLL, CRC, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), and renal cell carcinoma (RCC). 28670499 2017
CUI: C0023434
Disease: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE This study has identified the constitutive activation and prosurvival function of LEF-1 and the Wnt pathway in CLL and uncovered a possible role for these factors in the preleukemic state of monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis. 20595513 2010
CUI: C0023434
Disease: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE However, acute myeloid leukemia and acute lymphocytic leukemia showed a significantly increased fraction of the oncogenic LEF-1 compared with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and chronic myeloid leukemia. 15756419 2005
CUI: C0023434
Disease: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE This study demonstrates that although LEF-1 mRNA is universally, highly expressed in B-CLL, expression of this gene is much lower or absent in the majority of low-grade B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). 16054689 2006
CUI: C0023434
Disease: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In CLL, cortactin positivity did correlate with LEF1 and CD200 expression, and the combined positivity for ≥2 markers strongly predicted CLL diagnosis. 30458196 2019
CUI: C0023434
Disease: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In contrast, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells show constitutionally active Wnt signaling, which is associated with upregulated levels of pathway members such as Wnt3 and lymphoid enhancer-binding factor-1. 24793644 2014
CUI: C0023434
Disease: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE A set of four genes was able to discriminate clonal BL from WM and CLL: LEF1 (WNT/beta-catenin pathway), MARCKS, ATXN1 and FMOD. 17252022 2007
CUI: C0023434
Disease: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The results of this study indicate that methylprednisolone can suppress Wnt signaling pathway by down-regulating LEF-1 protein expression, indicating a novel mechanism for HDMP therapy in CLL. 26339357 2015
CUI: C0023434
Disease: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Our results showed, for the first time, that high LEF1 expression is associated with poor survival for CLL patients. 26950276 2016
CUI: C0007102
Disease: Malignant tumor of colon
Malignant tumor of colon
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Bioinformatic analyses were utilized to define the expression of MYC-regulated genes in human colon cancer and metabolomics analyses were used to identify pathways regulated by LEF1 in MYC expressing cells. 31623618 2019
CUI: C0007102
Disease: Malignant tumor of colon
Malignant tumor of colon
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Nr-CAM and LEF-1 expression was elevated in human colon cancer tissue and cell lines and in human malignant melanoma cell lines but not in melanocytes or normal colon tissue. 12183361 2002
CUI: C0007102
Disease: Malignant tumor of colon
Malignant tumor of colon
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE We report here that LEF1 is a new type of target gene ectopically activated in colon cancer. 11326276 2001
CUI: C0007102
Disease: Malignant tumor of colon
Malignant tumor of colon
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE A deeper understanding of these processes might improve the targeted therapies for colon cancer by regulating the expression of LEF-1. 22639890 2012
CUI: C0007102
Disease: Malignant tumor of colon
Malignant tumor of colon
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE We demonstrate that miR26b expression is a potent inhibitor of colon cancer cell proliferation and significantly decreases LEF1 expression. 24785257 2014
CUI: C0007102
Disease: Malignant tumor of colon
Malignant tumor of colon
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE A total of 106 colon cancer and matched paratumorous normal tissues were used to assess LEF1 expression using immunohistochemistry and qRT-PCR. 24098538 2013
CUI: C0007102
Disease: Malignant tumor of colon
Malignant tumor of colon
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Our findings identify LEF-1 as key regulator of beta-catenin nuclear localization and stability and suggest that overexpression of LEF-1 in colon cancer and melanoma cells may contribute to the accumulation of oncogenic beta-catenin in the nucleus. 11986304 2002
CUI: C0007102
Disease: Malignant tumor of colon
Malignant tumor of colon
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Recent implications for beta-catenin signaling in cancer prompted us to examine colon cancer cell lines for the expression of LEF-1, a transcription factor that binds to beta-catenin. 9419974 1997
CUI: C0007102
Disease: Malignant tumor of colon
Malignant tumor of colon
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Here we characterize the biological activity of a hairpin polyamide 1 that inhibits binding of the minor-groove transcription factor LEF-1, constitutively expressed in colon cancers. 12144926 2002
CUI: C0007102
Disease: Malignant tumor of colon
Malignant tumor of colon
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The LEF1 gene is aberrantly transcribed in colon cancers because promoter 1 (P1) is a Wnt target gene and is activated by TCF-β-catenin complexes. 20525792 2010
CUI: C0007102
Disease: Malignant tumor of colon
Malignant tumor of colon
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Here we show that the regulation of the expression of this enzyme in a colon cancer cell line, and in patients, is associated with overexpression of the Wnt pathway-associated proteins, Pontin52/TIP49a and LEF-1. 14675489 2003
CUI: C0007102
Disease: Malignant tumor of colon
Malignant tumor of colon
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE We conclude that the biological outcome of aberrant LEF1 activation in colon cancer is directed by differential promoter activation and repression. 16809766 2006
CUI: C0007102
Disease: Malignant tumor of colon
Malignant tumor of colon
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Recently, alterations of LEF-1 isoforms distribution have been described in colon cancer. 15756419 2005