At the crossroads of polarity, proliferation and apoptosis: the use of Drosophila to unravel the multifaceted role of endocytosis in tumor suppression.

abstract：:The Prep1 homeodomain transcription factor is essential for embryonic development. 25% of hypomorphic Prep1(i/i) embryos, expressing the gene at 2% of the normal levels, survive pregnancy and live a normal-length life. Later in life, however, these mice develop spontaneous pre-tumoral lesions or solid tumors (lymphoma...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Longobardi E,Iotti G,Di Rosa P,Mejetta S,Bianchi F,Fernandez-Diaz LC,Micali N,Nuciforo P,Lenti E,Ponzoni M,Doglioni C,Caniatti M,Di Fiore PP,Blasi F

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of polypharmacology involves the interaction of drug molecules with multiple molecular targets. It provides a unique opportunity for the repurposing of already-approved drugs to target key factors involved in human diseases. Herein, we used an in silico target prediction algorithm to investigate the mechan...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Ariey-Bonnet J,Carrasco K,Le Grand M,Hoffer L,Betzi S,Feracci M,Tsvetkov P,Devred F,Collette Y,Morelli X,Ballester P,Pasquier E

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is a noncommunicable disease (NCD) with increasing incidence and therefore constitutes a major public health issue. To reduce the health and economic burden of cancer, policy-makers across the world have implemented a range of preventative interventions targeting risk factors with a known link to the disease. I...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Cheatley J,Aldea A,Lerouge A,Devaux M,Vuik S,Cecchini M

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Gain-of-function (GOF) mutants of p53 upregulate genes implicated in cell proliferation and oncogenesis. Here, we report that GOF p53 induces tumorigenicity through simultaneous activation of key oncogenic pathways including those controlling putative tumor-initiating cell functions. We determined that in cells expres...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Vaughan CA,Singh S,Grossman SR,Windle B,Deb SP,Deb S

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that different racial groups have significantly different incidence and mortality rates for certain cancers. It has been suggested that biological factors play a major role in these cancer racial disparities. Previous studies on the biological factors contributing to cancer racial disparity have gener...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Li Y,Pang X,Cui Z,Zhou Y,Mao F,Lin Y,Zhang X,Shen S,Zhu P,Zhao T,Sun Q,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Comprehensive Cancer Centres (CCCs) serve as critical drivers for improving cancer survival. In Europe, we have developed an Excellence Designation System (EDS) consisting of criteria to assess "excellence" of CCCs in translational research (bench to bedside and back), with the expectation that many European CCCs will...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Rajan A,Berns A,Ringborg U,Celis J,Ponder B,Caldas C,Livingston D,Bristow RG,Hecht TT,Tursz T,van Luenen H,Bono P,Helander T,Seamon K,Smyth JF,Louvard D,Eggermont A,van Harten WH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted toxin-based therapeutics are hindered by poor intracellular uptake, limited stability and non-specific immune stimulation. To address these problems, ligand-targeted toxins in combination with low dose saponin mixtures have been adapted and tested in vivo in the past, however, undefined saponin raw mixtures a...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Thakur M,Mergel K,Weng A,von Mallinckrodt B,Gilabert-Oriol R,Dürkop H,Melzig MF,Fuchs H

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ cell cancers (GCC) are the most frequent malignancy in young Caucasian males. GCC can consist of seminomas (SE) and non-seminomas (malignant NS: embryonal carcinoma (EC), yolk sac tumor (YS), choriocarcinoma (CH) and teratoma (TE)). Current serum-markers used for diagnosis and follow-up (AFP, hCG) are predominant...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Gillis AJ,Rijlaarsdam MA,Eini R,Dorssers LC,Biermann K,Murray MJ,Nicholson JC,Coleman N,Dieckmann KP,Belge G,Bullerdiek J,Xu T,Bernard N,Looijenga LH

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer tissue overexpresses fucosylated glycans, such as sialyl-Lewis X/A (sLeX/A ), and α-1,3/4-fucosyltransferases (FUTs) in relation to increased disease progression and metastasis. These glycans in tumor circulating cells mediate binding to vascular E-selectin, initiating tumor extravasation. However, their...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Carrascal MA,Silva M,Ramalho JS,Pen C,Martins M,Pascoal C,Amaral C,Serrano I,Oliveira MJ,Sackstein R,Videira PA

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cMet is a well-characterized oncogene that is the target of many drugs including small molecule and biologic pathway inhibitors, and, more recently, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). However, the clinical benefit from cMet-targeted therapy has been limited. We developed a novel cMet-targeted 'third-generation' ADC, TR1...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Gymnopoulos M,Betancourt O,Blot V,Fujita R,Galvan D,Lieuw V,Nguyen S,Snedden J,Stewart C,Villicana J,Wojciak J,Wong E,Pardo R,Patel N,D'Hooge F,Vijayakrishnan B,Barry C,Hartley JA,Howard PW,Newman R,Coronella J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer (BrCa) metabolism is geared toward biomass synthesis and maintenance of reductive capacity. Changes in glucose and glutamine metabolism in BrCa have been widely reported, yet the contribution of fatty acids (FAs) in BrCa biology remains to be determined. We recently reported that adipocyte coculture alte...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Balaban S,Lee LS,Varney B,Aishah A,Gao Q,Shearer RF,Saunders DN,Grewal T,Hoy AJ

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:JS-2 is a novel gene located at 5p15.2 and originally detected in primary oesophageal cancer. There is no study on the role of JS-2 in colorectal cancer. The aim of this study is to determine the gene copy number and expression of JS-2 in a large cohort of patients with colorectal tumours and correlate these to the cl...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Lam AK,Gopalan V,Nassiri MR,Kasim K,Dissanayake J,Tang JC,Smith RA

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a cell damage-induced phenotype in mammary carcinoma cells involving acquisition of enhanced migratory and metastatic properties. Induction of this state by radiation required increased activity of the Ptgs2 gene product cyclooxygenase 2 (Cox2), secretion of its bioactive lipid product prostaglandin E2 (PG...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Gong J,Lang BJ,Weng D,Eguchi T,Murshid A,Borges TJ,Doshi S,Song B,Stevenson MA,Calderwood SK

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor cells undergo senescence in response to both conventional and targeted cancer therapies. The induction of senescence in response to cancer therapy can contribute to unfavorable patient outcomes, potentially including disease relapse. This possibiliy is supported by our findings that tumor cells induced into sene...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Saleh T,Carpenter VJ,Tyutyunyk-Massey L,Murray G,Leverson JD,Souers AJ,Alotaibi MR,Faber AC,Reed J,Harada H,Gewirtz DA

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tripartite motif containing 27 (TRIM27) is highly expressed in lung cancer, including non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Here, we profiled DNA methylation of lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) tumours from 613 early-stage NSCLC patients and evaluated associations between CpG methylatio...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Ji X,Lin L,Shen S,Dong X,Chen C,Li Y,Zhu Y,Huang H,Chen J,Chen X,Wei L,He J,Duan W,Su L,Jiang Y,Fan J,Guan J,You D,Shafer A,Bjaanæs MM,Karlsson A,Planck M,Staaf J,Helland Å,Esteller M,Wei Y,Zhang R,C

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several mechanisms can be responsible for control of hematological tumors by allo-reactive T cells. Following allogeneic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT) donor T cells recognizing genetic disparities presented on recipient cells and not on donor cells are main effectors of tumor control, but also of the detrimental...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Falkenburg JH,Jedema I

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to predict responsiveness to drugs in individual patients is limited. We hypothesized that integrating molecular information from databases would yield predictions that could be experimentally tested to develop transcriptomic signatures for specific drugs. We analyzed lung adenocarcinoma patient data from ...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Tavassoly I,Hu Y,Zhao S,Mariottini C,Boran A,Chen Y,Li L,Tolentino RE,Jayaraman G,Goldfarb J,Gallo J,Iyengar R

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor growth, especially in the late stage, requires adequate nutrients and rich vasculature, in which PKM2 plays a convergent role. It has been reported that PKM2, together with FOXM1D, is upregulated in late stage colorectal cancer and associated with metastasis; however, their underlying mechanism for promoting tum...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Zhang W,Zhang X,Huang S,Chen J,Ding P,Wang Q,Li L,Lv X,Li L,Zhang P,Zhou D,Wen W,Wang Y,Lei QY,Wu J,Hu W

更新日期：2020-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Ewing sarcomas (ES) are highly malignant, osteolytic bone or soft tissue tumors, which are characterized by EWS-ETS translocations and early metastasis to lung and bone. In this study, we investigated the role of the BRICHOS chaperone domain-containing endochondral bone protein chondromodulin I (CHM1) in ES pathogenes...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： von Heyking K,Calzada-Wack J,Göllner S,Neff F,Schmidt O,Hensel T,Schirmer D,Fasan A,Esposito I,Müller-Tidow C,Sorensen PH,Burdach S,Richter GHS

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylases (HDACs), originally described as histone modifiers, have more recently been demonstrated to target a variety of other proteins unrelated to the chromatin environment. In this context, our present work demonstrates that the pharmacological or genetic abrogation of HDAC6 in primary melanoma samples ...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： M L,P PV,T K,M P,E S,J P,K V W,C L,F C,S D,M SKS,M M,A K,J PI,A S,E S,J W,E M S,A V

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene and protein expression of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) are prognostic in early breast cancer (BC), but their prognostic information is inconsistent at least in some biological subgroups. The validated prognostic gene signatures (GS) in BC are mainly based on proliferation and estrogen receptor (ER)-related g...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Zerdes I,Sifakis EG,Matikas A,Chrétien S,Tobin NP,Hartman J,Rassidakis GZ,Bergh J,Foukakis T

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elevated expression and activation of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) is associated with the unlimited proliferation of cancer cells. However, the excise mechanism of hTERT regulation during carcinogenesis is not well understood. In this study, we discovered cleavage and polyadenylation specific fac...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Chen W,Qin L,Wang S,Li M,Shi D,Tian Y,Wang J,Fu L,Li Z,Guo W,Yu W,Yuan Y,Kang T,Huang W,Deng W

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic adenocarcinomas express neurotensin receptors in up to 90% of cases, however, their role in tumor biology and as a drug target is not clear. In the present study, a stable neurotensin (NT) analog induced intracellular calcium release and intracellular alkalinization in BxPC-3 and PANC-1 pancreatic cancer ce...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Olszewski U,Hamilton G

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancers with BRCA1 germline mutation have a characteristic DNA copy number (CN) pattern. We developed a test that assigns CN profiles to be 'BRCA1-like' or 'non-BRCA1-like', which refers to resembling a BRCA1-mutated tumor or resembling a tumor without a BRCA1 mutation, respectively. Approximately one third of ...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Schouten PC,Grigoriadis A,Kuilman T,Mirza H,Watkins JA,Cooke SA,van Dyk E,Severson TM,Rueda OM,Hoogstraat M,Verhagen CV,Natrajan R,Chin SF,Lips EH,Kruizinga J,Velds A,Nieuwland M,Kerkhoven RM,Krijgsman O,Vens C,Pe

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare the distribution and prognostic effect of the breast cancer molecular subtypes in young and elderly breast cancer patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Our study population (n = 822) consisted of all early breast cancer patients primarily treated with surgery in our center between 1985 and 1996. A total of...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： de Kruijf EM,Bastiaannet E,Rubertá F,de Craen AJ,Kuppen PJ,Smit VT,van de Velde CJ,Liefers GJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) is both a risk indicator and non-obligate precursor of invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC). We sought to characterize the transcriptomic features of LCIS and ILC, with a focus on the identification of intrinsic molecular subtypes of LCIS and the changes involved in the progression ...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Andrade VP,Morrogh M,Qin LX,Olvera N,Giri D,Muhsen S,Sakr RA,Schizas M,Ng CK,Arroyo CD,Brogi E,Viale A,Morrow M,Reis-Filho JS,King TA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) plays an extremely important role in cancer initiation and development, including colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the precise upstream regulatory mechanisms of hTERT in different cancer types remain poorly understood. Here, we uncovered the candidate transcriptional fac...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Diao C,Guo P,Yang W,Sun Y,Liao Y,Yan Y,Zhao A,Cai X,Hao J,Hu S,Yu W,Chen M,Wang R,Li W,Zuo Y,Pan J,Hua C,Lu X,Fan W,Zheng Z,Deng W,Luo G,Guo W

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The let-7 microRNA (miRNA) family has been implicated in the regulation of diverse cellular processes and disease pathogenesis. In cancer, loss-of-function of let-7 miRNAs has been linked to tumorigenesis via increased expression of target oncogenes. Excessive proliferation rate of tumor cells is often associated with...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Mäki-Jouppila JH,Pruikkonen S,Tambe MB,Aure MR,Halonen T,Salmela AL,Laine L,Børresen-Dale AL,Kallio MJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenin (ANG), a 14-kDa pro-angiogenic secreted protein, has been shown to play a role in cell migration and tumor invasion, which involve proteolytic cleavage of plasminogen to generate plasmin. However, the mechanism by which ANG regulates plasmin formation and cell migration was not known. Our studies here detec...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Dutta S,Bandyopadhyay C,Bottero V,Veettil MV,Wilson L,Pins MR,Johnson KE,Warshall C,Chandran B

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FEN1 has key roles in Okazaki fragment maturation during replication, long patch base excision repair, rescue of stalled replication forks, maintenance of telomere stability and apoptosis. FEN1 may be dysregulated in breast and ovarian cancers and have clinicopathological significance in patients. We comprehensively i...

journal_title：Molecular oncology

authors： Abdel-Fatah TM,Russell R,Albarakati N,Maloney DJ,Dorjsuren D,Rueda OM,Moseley P,Mohan V,Sun H,Abbotts R,Mukherjee A,Agarwal D,Illuzzi JL,Jadhav A,Simeonov A,Ball G,Chan S,Caldas C,Ellis IO,Wilson DM 3rd,Madhusudan

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00