1,1-Bis(3'-indolyl)-1-(p-substituted phenyl)methanes inhibit colon cancer cell and tumor growth through PPARgamma-dependent and PPARgamma-independent pathways.

abstract：:Penta-1,2,3,4,6-O-galloyl-beta-D-glucose (PGG) is a naturally occurring gallotannin from some Oriental herbs. Several cell culture studies suggested a potential for PGG as a novel agent for the chemoprevention and treatment of cancer. Here, we investigated the cell death signaling mechanisms induced by PGG in human pr...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Hu H,Lee HJ,Jiang C,Zhang J,Wang L,Zhao Y,Xiang Q,Lee EO,Kim SH,Lü J

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleoside phosphonates are widely used therapeutic agents with a broad spectrum of antiviral activity. However, only a few of them are reported to have antitumor activity. In this study, we show that a tetrahydrofuran phosphonate analogue of guanosine, (-)-2-R-dihydroxyphosphinoyl-5-(S)-(guanin-9'-ylmethyl) tetrahydr...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Leblond L,Attardo G,Hamelin B,Bouffard DY,Nguyen-Ba N,Gourdeau H

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) are the most cytotoxic lesions induced by topoisomerase II poisons. Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) is a major pathway for DSB repair and requires DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) activity. DNA-PK catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs) is structurally similar to PI-3K, which promotes cell su...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Munck JM,Batey MA,Zhao Y,Jenkins H,Richardson CJ,Cano C,Tavecchio M,Barbeau J,Bardos J,Cornell L,Griffin RJ,Menear K,Slade A,Thommes P,Martin NM,Newell DR,Smith GC,Curtin NJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human antigen R (HuR) is an RNA-binding protein that posttranscriptionally regulates many cancer-trait genes. CDC6, a central regulator of DNA replication, is regulated by HuR. In this study, we investigated the role of HuR in colorectal cancer tumorigenesis and oxaliplatin (L-OHP) resistance, as well as the underlyin...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Cai J,Wang H,Jiao X,Huang R,Qin Q,Zhang J,Chen H,Feng D,Tian X,Wang H

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tivantinib (ARQ197) was first reported as a highly selective inhibitor of c-MET and is currently being investigated in a phase III clinical trial. However, as recently reported by us and another group, tivantinib showed cytotoxic activity independent of cellular c-MET status and also disrupted microtubule dynamics. To...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Aoyama A,Katayama R,Oh-Hara T,Sato S,Okuno Y,Fujita N

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uveal melanoma is a rare and aggressive cancer that originates in the eye. Currently, there are no approved targeted therapies and very few effective treatments for this cancer. Although activating mutations in the G protein alpha subunits, GNAQ and GNA11, are key genetic drivers of the disease, few additional drug ta...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Rago F,Elliott G,Li A,Sprouffske K,Kerr G,Desplat A,Abramowski D,Chen JT,Farsidjani A,Xiang KX,Bushold G,Feng Y,Shirley MD,Bric A,Vattay A,Möbitz H,Nakajima K,Adair CD,Mathieu S,Ntaganda R,Smith T,Papillon JPN,

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral and synthetic single-stranded RNAs are the ligands for Toll-like receptors 7 and 8 (TLR7 and TLR8). We have reported a novel class of synthetic oligoribonucleotides, referred to as stabilized immune-modulatory RNA compounds, which act as agonists of TLR7, TLR8, or both TLR7 and TLR8 depending on the sequence com...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Wang D,Precopio M,Lan T,Yu D,Tang JX,Kandimalla ER,Agrawal S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recent studies showed that antisense oligodeoxynucleotide targeting antiapoptotic gene, clusterin, enhanced apoptosis induced by conventional therapeutic modalities using several prostate cancer models. In this study, to establish a more effective therapeutic strategy against prostate cancer, we investigated the e...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Yamanaka K,Gleave ME,Hara I,Muramaki M,Miyake H

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulated evidence indicates that CCAT1 functions as an oncogene in the progression of a variety of tumors. However, little is known as to how CCAT1 impacts tumorigenesis in human prostate cancer. In this study, we found from The Cancer Genome Atlas and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center database that CCAT1 is h...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： You Z,Liu C,Wang C,Ling Z,Wang Y,Wang Y,Zhang M,Chen S,Xu B,Guan H,Chen M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upregulation of HER2 is a hallmark of 20% to 30% of invasive breast cancers, rendering this receptor an attractive target for cancer therapy. Although HER2-targeting agents have provided substantial clinical benefit as cancer therapeutics, there is a need for the development of new agents aiming at circumventing anti-...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Brack S,Attinger-Toller I,Schade B,Mourlane F,Klupsch K,Woods R,Hachemi H,von der Bey U,Koenig-Friedrich S,Bertschinger J,Grabulovski D

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone metastases occur in more than one-third of patients with advanced lung cancer and are difficult to treat. We showed previously the therapeutic effect of a third-generation bisphosphonate, minodronate, and anti-parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) neutralizing antibody on bone metastases induced by the huma...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Yamada T,Muguruma H,Yano S,Ikuta K,Ogino H,Kakiuchi S,Hanibuchi M,Uehara H,Nishioka Y,Sone S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor (TGF)-β contributes to the malignant phenotype of glioblastoma by promoting invasiveness and angiogenesis and creating an immunosuppressive microenvironment. So far, TGF-β1 and TGF-β2 isoforms have been considered to act in a similar fashion without isoform-specific function in glioblastoma....

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Seystahl K,Papachristodoulou A,Burghardt I,Schneider H,Hasenbach K,Janicot M,Roth P,Weller M

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hallmark of cancer cells is their adaptation to rely upon an altered metabolic scheme that includes changes in the glycolytic pathway, known as the Warburg effect, and elevated glutamine metabolism. Glutaminase, a mitochondrial enzyme, plays a key role in the metabolism of glutamine in cancer cells, and its inhibi...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Katt WP,Ramachandran S,Erickson JW,Cerione RA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Farnesyl transferase inhibitors (FTI) exhibit anticancer activity as a single agent in preclinical studies and show promise in combination with other therapeutics in clinical trials. Previous studies show that FTIs arrest cancer cells in mitosis; however, the mechanism by which this occurs is unclear. Here, we observe...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Schafer-Hales K,Iaconelli J,Snyder JP,Prussia A,Nettles JH,El-Naggar A,Khuri FR,Giannakakou P,Marcus AI

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D,L-Sulforaphane (SFN), a synthetic analogue of cruciferous vegetable-derived L-isomer, inhibits the growth of human prostate cancer cells in culture and in vivo and retards cancer development in a transgenic mouse model of prostate cancer. We now show that SFN treatment causes transcriptional repression of androgen r...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Kim SH,Singh SV

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic efficiency of anticancer nucleoside analogues (NA) strongly depends on their intracellular accumulation and conversion into 5'-triphosphates. Because active NATP cannot be directly administrated due to instability, we present here a strategy of nanoencapsulation of these active drugs for efficient deli...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Galmarini CM,Warren G,Kohli E,Zeman A,Mitin A,Vinogradov SV

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone modification has emerged as a promising approach to cancer therapy. We explored the efficacy of a novel class of histone deacetylase inhibitors in the treatment of malignant gliomas. Treatment of glioma cell lines with two butyric acid derivatives, pivaloylomethyl butyrate (AN-9) and butyroyloxymethyl butyrate...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Entin-Meer M,Rephaeli A,Yang X,Nudelman A,VandenBerg SR,Haas-Kogan DA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-specific tissue-penetrating peptides deliver drugs into extravascular tumor tissue by increasing tumor vascular permeability through interaction with neuropilin (NRP). Here, we report that a prototypic tumor-penetrating peptide iRGD (amino acid sequence: CRGDKGPDC) potently inhibits spontaneous metastasis in mic...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Sugahara KN,Braun GB,de Mendoza TH,Kotamraju VR,French RP,Lowy AM,Teesalu T,Ruoslahti E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NF-κB transcription factor functions as a crucial regulator of cell survival and chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer. Recent studies suggest that tocotrienols, which are the unsaturated forms of vitamin E, are a promising class of anticancer compounds that inhibit the growth and survival of many cancer cells, inc...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Husain K,Francois RA,Yamauchi T,Perez M,Sebti SM,Malafa MP

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a common cancer in Southern China and EBV is the most important pathogenesis. In this study, we explore the potential that a recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) carrying a fusing gene containing heat shock protein as an adjuvant, EBV latent membrane proteins (LMP1 and LMP2) CTL ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Pan J,Zhang Q,Zhou J,Ma D,Xiao X,Wang DW

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gefitinib (Iressa, ZD1839), a quinazoline tyrosine kinase inhibitor that targets the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), is approved for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in several countries including Japan. However, the mechanism of drug sensitivity to gefitinib is not fully understood. ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Ono M,Hirata A,Kometani T,Miyagawa M,Ueda S,Kinoshita H,Fujii T,Kuwano M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-HER2 monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have been shown to reduce tumor size and increase survival in patients with breast cancer, but they are ineffective against brain metastases due to poor brain penetration. In previous studies, we identified a peptide, known as Angiopep-2 (An2), which crosses the blood-brain barrie...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Regina A,Demeule M,Tripathy S,Lord-Dufour S,Currie JC,Iddir M,Annabi B,Castaigne JP,Lachowicz JE

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL), a member of the tumor necrosis factor superfamily, is in clinical trials for cancer therapy, but its anticancer potential is limited by the development of resistance. We investigated the ability of tocotrienol (T3), an unsaturated vitamin E present in pa...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Kannappan R,Ravindran J,Prasad S,Sung B,Yadav VR,Reuter S,Chaturvedi MM,Aggarwal BB

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:The challenge of developing effective pharmacodynamic biomarkers for preclinical and clinical testing of FGFR signaling inhibition is significant. Assays that rely on the measurement of phospho-protein epitopes can be limited by the availability of effective antibody detection reagents. Transcript profiling enables ac...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Delpuech O,Rooney C,Mooney L,Baker D,Shaw R,Dymond M,Wang D,Zhang P,Cross S,Veldman-Jones M,Wilson J,Davies BR,Dry JR,Kilgour E,Smith PD

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple roles within mitosis have been assigned to Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1), making it an attractive candidate for mitotic targeting of cancer cells. We have employed chimeric antisense oligonucleotides to investigate the molecular alterations after targeted interference with Plk1 in RKO human colon adenocarcinoma a...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Schmidt M,Hofmann HP,Sanders K,Sczakiel G,Beckers TL,Gekeler V

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) has been observed in many malignant tumors and its constitutive signal transduction facilitates the proliferation of tumors. EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitors, such as gefitinib, are widely used as a molecular-targeting agent for the inactivation of EGFR signalin...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Saito K,Takigawa N,Ohtani N,Iioka H,Tomita Y,Ueda R,Fukuoka J,Kuwahara K,Ichihara E,Kiura K,Kondo E

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocrine therapy is important for management of patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer; however, positive ER staining does not reliably predict therapy response. We assessed the potential to improve prediction of response to endocrine treatment of a novel test that quantifies functional ER pathwa...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Inda MA,Blok EJ,Kuppen PJK,Charehbili A,den Biezen-Timmermans EC,van Brussel A,Fruytier SE,Meershoek-Klein Kranenbarg E,Kloet S,van der Burg B,Martens JWM,Sims AH,Turnbull AK,Dixon JM,Verhaegh W,Kroep JR,van de Velde CJH

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor resistance to antitubulin drugs resulting from P-glycoprotein (Pgp) drug-efflux activity, increased expression of the βIII tubulin isotype, and alterations in the drug-binding sites are major obstacles in cancer therapy. Consequently, novel antitubulin drugs that overcome these challenges are of substantial inte...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Nguyen TL,Cera MR,Pinto A,Lo Presti L,Hamel E,Conti P,Gussio R,De Wulf P

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascofuranone has been shown to have antitumor activity, but the precise molecular mechanism by which it inhibits the proliferation of cancer cells remains unclear. Here, we study the effects of ascofuranone on cell cycle progression in human cancer cells and find that ascofuranone induces G(1) arrest without cytoxicit...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Jeong JH,Kang SS,Park KK,Chang HW,Magae J,Chang YC

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00