Phycocyanin-mediated apoptosis in AK-5 tumor cells involves down-regulation of Bcl-2 and generation of ROS.

abstract：:Because proliferation of eukaryotic cells requires cell cycle-regulated chromatid separation by the mitotic spindle, it is subject to regulation by mitotic checkpoints. To determine the mechanism of the antiproliferative activity of the flavoprotein-specific inhibitor diphenyleneiodonium (DPI), I have examined its eff...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Scaife RM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) activate the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and mediate EGFR-independent signaling pathways to promote the growth of a variety of cancers, including head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Identification of the common signaling mechanisms involved in GPCR-induced EGFR...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Bhola NE,Freilino ML,Joyce SC,Sen M,Thomas SM,Sahu A,Cassell A,Chen CS,Grandis JR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of both the de novo (DNP) and salvage (NSP) pathways of nucleoside synthesis has been demonstrated to impair leukemia cells. We endeavored to determine whether this approach would be efficacious in glioblastoma. To diminish nucleoside biosynthesis, we utilized compound DI-39, which selectively targets NSP, ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Laks DR,Ta L,Crisman TJ,Gao F,Coppola G,Radu CG,Nathanson DA,Kornblum HI

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of new drugs against cancer requires established cell lines. They are needed for in vitro studies to identify candidate drugs and in xenograft models to measure drug efficacy in vivo. Specific criteria need to be fulfilled by cell lines used in the evaluation of potential novel therapeutic agents. It i...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Kees UR,Ford J,Watson M,Murch A,Ringńer M,Walker RL,Meltzer P

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivin, an inhibitor of apoptosis protein, is highly expressed in most cancers and associated with chemotherapy resistance, increased tumor recurrence, and shorter patient survival, making antisurvivin therapy an attractive cancer treatment strategy. However, growing evidence indicates that survivin is expressed in ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Fukuda S,Pelus LM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma is highly chemoresistant, and ATP-binding cassette subfamily G member 2 (ABCG2) is thought to play a critical role in this drug resistance. The present study aims to develop effective therapeutic strategies to decrease ABCG2 expression level and to surmount drug resistance in hepatocellular ca...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Hou H,Sun H,Lu P,Ge C,Zhang L,Li H,Zhao F,Tian H,Zhang L,Chen T,Yao M,Li J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA repair protein O(6)-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) is known to play a role in sensitivity to temozolomide. Promoter hypermethylation of MGMT is commonly used to predict low expression levels of MGMT in gliomas, despite observed discordance between promoter methylation and protein levels. Here, we i...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Moen EL,Stark AL,Zhang W,Dolan ME,Godley LA

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current treatments for castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) largely fall into two classes: androgen receptor (AR)-targeted therapies such as the next-generation antiandrogen therapies (NGAT), enzalutamide and abiraterone, and taxanes such as docetaxel and cabazitaxel. Despite improvements in outcomes, patients ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Lombard AP,Liu L,Cucchiara V,Liu C,Armstrong CM,Zhao R,Yang JC,Lou W,Evans CP,Gao AC

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In breast and certain other cancers, receptor tyrosine kinases, including the insulin-like growth factor I receptor (IGF-IR), play an important role in promoting the oncogenic process. The IGF-IR is therefore an important target for developing new anti-breast cancer therapies. An initial screening of a chemical librar...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Gable KL,Maddux BA,Penaranda C,Zavodovskaya M,Campbell MJ,Lobo M,Robinson L,Schow S,Kerner JA,Goldfine ID,Youngren JF

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antioxidants, such as vitamin E, are being investigated for efficacy in prostate cancer prevention. In this study, we show that the antioxidant moiety of vitamin E, 2,2,5,7,8-pentamethyl-6-chromanol (PMCol), has antiandrogen activity in prostate carcinoma cells. In the presence of PMCol, the androgen-stimulated biphas...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Thompson TA,Wilding G

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At later stages of tumor progression, epithelial carcinogenesis is associated with transition to a mesenchymal phenotype, which may contribute to the more aggressive properties of cancer cells and may be stimulated by growth factors such as epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor-beta. Previously, we fo...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Paccione RJ,Miyazaki H,Patel V,Waseem A,Gutkind JS,Zehner ZE,Yeudall WA

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway is known to be activated by radiation. The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is downstream of Akt, and we investigated the effects of radiation on Akt/mTOR signaling in breast cancer cell models. RAD001 (everolimus), a potent derivative of the mTOR inhibitor rapa...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Albert JM,Kim KW,Cao C,Lu B

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During camptothecin- and etoposide (VP-16)-induced apoptosis in HL-60 cells, the expression level of cell death receptor-3 (DR3), cell death receptor-4 (DR4), and FAS remained mostly unchanged, whereas the expression of silencers of death domain (SODD) and FLICE inhibitory proteins, inhibitors of the cell death recept...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Bergeron S,Beauchemin M,Bertrand R

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported previously a significant increase in survival of nude rats harboring orthotopic A549 human non-small cell lung cancer tumors after treatment with a combination of exisulind (Sulindac Sulfone) and docetaxel (D. C. Chan, Clin. Cancer Res., 8: 904-912, 2002). The purpose of the current study was to determine ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Whitehead CM,Earle KA,Fetter J,Xu S,Hartman T,Chan DC,Zhao TL,Piazza G,Klein-Szanto AJ,Pamukcu R,Alila H,Bunn PA Jr,Thompson WJ

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional maximum dose density chemotherapy renders the tumor patients not only the tumor remission but the chemotherapy resistance and more adverse side effects. According to the widely positive expression of Toll-like receptor (TLR)-3 in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) patients (n = 166), we here provided ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Ding L,Ren J,Zhang D,Li Y,Huang X,Ji J,Hu Q,Wang H,Ni Y,Hou Y

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PI3K is frequently mutated in cancer and plays an important role in cell growth and survival. Heregulin (HRG)-mediated autocrine or paracrine signaling through the receptor tyrosine kinase ErbB3 potently activates the PI3K/AKT pathway and has been shown to mediate resistance to a wide variety of anticancer agents. Alt...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Yarar D,Lahdenranta J,Kubasek W,Nielsen UB,MacBeath G

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiotherapy, a frequent mode of cancer treatment, is often restricted by dose-related toxicity and development of therapeutic resistance. To develop a novel and selective radiosensitizer, we studied the radiosensitizing effects and associated mechanisms of silibinin in prostate cancer. The radiosensitizing effect of ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Nambiar DK,Rajamani P,Deep G,Jain AK,Agarwal R,Singh RP

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft-tissue sarcomas (STS) represent a heterogeneous group of rare, malignant tumors of mesenchymal origin. Reliable in vivo sarcoma research models are scarce. We aimed to establish and characterize histologically and molecularly stable patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models from a broad variety of STS subtypes. A to...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Cornillie J,Wozniak A,Li H,Wang Y,Boeckx B,Gebreyohannes YK,Wellens J,Vanleeuw U,Hompes D,Stas M,Sinnaeve F,Wafa H,Lambrechts D,Debiec-Rychter M,Sciot R,Schöffski P

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deregulation of the cell cycle has long been recognized as an essential driver of tumorigenesis, and agents that selectively target key cell cycle components continue to hold promise as potential therapeutics. We have developed AZD5438, a 4-(1-isopropyl-2-methylimidazol-5-yl)-2-(4-methylsulphonylanilino) pyrimidine, a...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Byth KF,Thomas A,Hughes G,Forder C,McGregor A,Geh C,Oakes S,Green C,Walker M,Newcombe N,Green S,Growcott J,Barker A,Wilkinson RW

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhancer of zester homolog 2 (EZH2), a histone lysine methyltransferase and the catalytic component of polycomb repressive complex 2, has been extensively investigated as a chromatin regulator and a transcriptional suppressor by methylating H3 at lysine 27 (H3K27). EZH2 is upregulated or mutated in most cancers, and i...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Li Q,Liu KY,Liu Q,Wang G,Jiang W,Meng Q,Yi Y,Yang Y,Wang R,Zhu S,Li C,Wu L,Zhao D,Yan L,Zhang L,Kim JS,Zu X,Kozielski AJ,Qian W,Chang JC,Patnaik A,Chen K,Cao Q

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Expression of the type 1 insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGF1R) confers adverse prognosis in clear cell renal cell cancer (CC-RCC). We recently showed that IGF1R expression is inhibited by the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor, and the IGF1R is up-regulated in CC-RCC, in which VHL is frequently inac...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Yuen JS,Akkaya E,Wang Y,Takiguchi M,Peak S,Sullivan M,Protheroe AS,Macaulay VM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a deadly malignancy that frequently metastasizes and that overexpresses transforming growth factor-beta s (TGF-beta s). To determine whether TGF-beta s can act to enhance the metastatic potential of PDAC, PANC-1 human pancreatic cancer cells were transfected with an expressio...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Rowland-Goldsmith MA,Maruyama H,Matsuda K,Idezawa T,Ralli M,Ralli S,Korc M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) with activating mutations in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) initially respond well to the EGFR inhibitors erlotinib and gefitinib. However, all patients relapse because of the emergence of drug-resistant mutations, with T790M mutations accounting for approxi...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Tjin Tham Sjin R,Lee K,Walter AO,Dubrovskiy A,Sheets M,Martin TS,Labenski MT,Zhu Z,Tester R,Karp R,Medikonda A,Chaturvedi P,Ren Y,Haringsma H,Etter J,Raponi M,Simmons AD,Harding TC,Niu D,Nacht M,Westlin WF,Pette

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 is increased in human cancers including cholangiocarcinoma. This study was designed to evaluate the effect and mechanisms of the selective COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib in the growth control of human cholangiocarcinoma cells. Immunohistochemical analysis using human cholangiocarcin...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Wu T,Leng J,Han C,Demetris AJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B-Raf is an important mediator of cell proliferation and survival signals transduced via the Ras-Raf-MEK-ERK cascade. BRAF mutations have been detected in several tumors, including papillary thyroid carcinoma, but the precise role of B-Raf as a therapeutic target for thyroid carcinoma is still under investigation. We ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Mitsiades CS,Negri J,McMullan C,McMillin DW,Sozopoulos E,Fanourakis G,Voutsinas G,Tseleni-Balafouta S,Poulaki V,Batt D,Mitsiades N

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA damage repair capacity is required for cells to survive catastrophic DNA damage and proliferate under conditions of intratumoral stress. The ability of the minor histone protein H2AX to serve as a hub for the assembly of a productive DNA damage repair complex is a necessary step in preventing DNA damage-induced ce...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Wang Y,Pandey RN,Riffle S,Chintala H,Wikenheiser-Brokamp KA,Hegde RS

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RX-5902 is a first-in-class anticancer agent targeting phosphorylated-p68 and attenuating nuclear shuttling of β-catenin. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of RX-5902 in preclinical models of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and to explore effects on β-catenin expression. A panel of 18 TNBC ce...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Capasso A,Bagby SM,Dailey KL,Currimjee N,Yacob BW,Ionkina A,Frank JG,Kim DJ,George C,Lee YB,Benaim E,Gittleman B,Hartman SJ,Tan AC,Kim J,Pitts TM,Eckhardt SG,Tentler JJ,Diamond JR

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple myeloma remains incurable and the majority of patients die within 5 years of diagnosis. Reolysin, the infusible form of human reovirus (RV), is a novel viral oncolytic therapy associated with antitumor activity likely resulting from direct oncolysis and a virus-mediated antitumor immune response. Results from...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Stiff A,Caserta E,Sborov DW,Nuovo GJ,Mo X,Schlotter SY,Canella A,Smith E,Badway J,Old M,Jaime-Ramirez AC,Yan P,Benson DM,Byrd JC,Baiocchi R,Kaur B,Hofmeister CC,Pichiorri F

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wee1 is a critical component of the G(2)-M cell-cycle checkpoint control and mediates cell-cycle arrest by regulating the phosphorylation of CDC2. Inhibition of Wee1 by a selective small molecule inhibitor MK1775 can abrogate G(2)-M checkpoint, resulting in premature mitotic entry and cell death. MK1775 has recently b...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Kreahling JM,Gemmer JY,Reed D,Letson D,Bui M,Altiok S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular pH of tumor tissue is significantly lower than the extracellular pH of normal tissue, whereas the intracellular pH of both tissues is similar. In principle, extracellular acidity may be expected to enhance the intracellular uptake and cytotoxicity of weak acid chemotherapeutics that are membrane perm...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Gerweck LE,Vijayappa S,Kozin S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00