Mcl-1 is an important determinant of the apoptotic response to the BH3-mimetic molecule HA14-1 in cisplatin-resistant ovarian carcinoma cells.

abstract：:Several antiangiogenic drugs targeting VEGF/VEGF receptor (VEGFR) that were approved by the Food and Drug Administration for many cancer types, including colorectal and lung cancer, can effectively reduce tumor growth. However, targeting the VEGF signaling pathway will probably influence the normal function of endothe...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Chen CT,Yamaguchi H,Lee HJ,Du Y,Lee HH,Xia W,Yu WH,Hsu JL,Yen CJ,Sun HL,Wang Y,Yeh ET,Hortobagyi GN,Hung MC

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activin receptor-like kinase-1 (ALK1) is a type I, endothelial cell-specific member of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily of receptors known to play an essential role in modulating angiogenesis and vessel maintenance. In the present study, we sought to examine the angiogenic and tumorigenic effects mediat...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Mitchell D,Pobre EG,Mulivor AW,Grinberg AV,Castonguay R,Monnell TE,Solban N,Ucran JA,Pearsall RS,Underwood KW,Seehra J,Kumar R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Betulinic acid (BA), a pentacyclic triterpene isolated from birch bark and other plants, selectively inhibits the growth of human cancer cell lines. However, the poor potency of BA hinders its clinical development, despite a lack of toxicity in animal studies even at high concentrations. Here, we describe six BA deriv...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Liby K,Honda T,Williams CR,Risingsong R,Royce DB,Suh N,Dinkova-Kostova AT,Stephenson KK,Talalay P,Sundararajan C,Gribble GW,Sporn MB

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown a statistically significant correlation between human carcinomas and monoclonal antibody detection of a Mycoplasma hyorhinis-encoded protein known as p37. A potential mechanism of p37 is that it might promote invasion and metastasis. Recombinant p37 enhanced the invasiveness of two prostate...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Ketcham CM,Anai S,Reutzel R,Sheng S,Schuster SM,Brenes RB,Agbandje-McKenna M,McKenna R,Rosser CJ,Boehlein SK

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histopathologic grading of astrocytic tumors based on current WHO criteria offers a valuable but simplified representation of oncologic reality and is often insufficient to predict clinical outcome. In this study, we report a new astrocytic tumor microarray gene expression data set (n = 65). We have used a simple arti...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Petalidis LP,Oulas A,Backlund M,Wayland MT,Liu L,Plant K,Happerfield L,Freeman TC,Poirazi P,Collins VP

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:Chemopreventive agents in colorectal cancer possess either antiproliferative or anti-inflammatory actions. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) and cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors have shown promise, but are compromised by side effects. Nitric oxide donor NSAIDs are organic nitrates conjugated via a labile linker ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Hagos GK,Carroll RE,Kouznetsova T,Li Q,Toader V,Fernandez PA,Swanson SM,Thatcher GR

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:STAT3 has been strongly implicated in human malignancies, and constitutive activation of STAT3 serves a crucial role in cell survival, angiogenesis, immune evasion, and inflammation. In this study, we showed that nitidine chloride, a natural phytochemical alkaloid derived from Zanthoxylum nitidum (Roxb) DC, exerts pot...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Chen J,Wang J,Lin L,He L,Wu Y,Zhang L,Yi Z,Chen Y,Pang X,Liu M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) is an important transcription factor that modulates lipid metabolism and inflammation. However, it remains unclear whether PPARγ is involved in modulation of estrogen (E2)-induced inflammation, thus affecting apoptosis of E2-deprived breast cancer cells, MCF-7:5C an...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Fan P,Abderrahman B,Chai TS,Yerrum S,Jordan VC

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies from our laboratory have identified several endothelial cell-associated marker genes implicated in human melanoma metastasis via tumor vasculogenic mimicry. In this study, we used dual model systems composed of melanoma cell lines and clinical melanoma samples to validate the importance of insulin-lik...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Xi Y,Nakajima G,Hamil T,Fodstad O,Riker A,Ju J

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:Several studies have shown antitumor activities of the melanoma differentiation-associated gene 7 (mda-7) and the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug sulindac when used as a monotherapies against a wide variety of human cancers. However, the combined effects of mda-7 and sulindac have not previously been tested. There...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Oida Y,Gopalan B,Miyahara R,Inoue S,Branch CD,Mhashilkar AM,Lin E,Bekele BN,Roth JA,Chada S,Ramesh R

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical circumvention of multidrug resistance (MDR) is a Sisyphian task faced in the treatment of many cancers. Identification of several mechanisms of acquired MDR has led to the development of chemosensitizing agents that counter specific mechanisms of MDR. Initial successes in therapy using "chemosensitizers" ofte...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Shain KH,Dalton WS

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zoledronic acid (ZOL) has been shown to reduce osteolysis in bone metastasis. Its efficacy in osteosarcoma has not been convincingly proved in a clinically relevant model for the disease. In vitro, ZOL decreased osteosarcoma cell proliferation, mainly due to an increase in apoptosis in a dose-dependent fashion. There ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Dass CR,Choong PF

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have shown the prognostic significance of disseminated tumor cells (DTC) in bone marrow of patients with colorectal cancer. However, the molecular characteristics of DTCs, including their miRNA expression profiles, remain mostly unknown. In this study, we analyzed the miRNA expression of DTCs in bone marrow. E...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Takeyama H,Yamamoto H,Yamashita S,Wu X,Takahashi H,Nishimura J,Haraguchi N,Miyake Y,Suzuki R,Murata K,Ohue M,Kato T,Takemasa I,Mizushima T,Ishii H,Mimori K,Doki Y,Mori M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a membrane-bound glutamate carboxypeptidase that is highly expressed in nearly all prostate cancers with the highest expression in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). The prevalence of increased surface expression and constitutive internalization of PSM...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Cho S,Zammarchi F,Williams DG,Havenith CEG,Monks NR,Tyrer P,D'Hooge F,Fleming R,Vashisht K,Dimasi N,Bertelli F,Corbett S,Adams L,Reinert HW,Dissanayake S,Britten CE,King W,Dacosta K,Tammali R,Schifferli K,Strout P

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to explore whether E545K, the most common hotspot mutation of PIK3CA in cervical cancer, confers radioresistance to cervical cancer cells, to demonstrate the underling mechanism, and to develop the effective targets. SiHa and MS751 cells with PIK3CA-WT and PIK3CA-E545K were established by lentiviral tr...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Jiang W,Wu Y,He T,Zhu H,Ke G,Xiang L,Yang H

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway, which is aberrantly stimulated in many cancer cells, has emerged as a target for therapy. However, mTORC1/S6K also mediates negative feedback loops that attenuate upstream signaling. Suppression of these feedback loops opposes the growth-suppressive effects of mTOR inhibitors and leads to dr...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Soares HP,Ming M,Mellon M,Young SH,Han L,Sinnet-Smith J,Rozengurt E

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer exhibits a propensity to metastasize to bone, resulting in debilitating skeletal complications associated with significant morbidity and poor prognosis. The cross-talk between metastatic cancer cells and bone is critical to the development and progression of bone metastases. We have shown the involvement...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Previdi S,Abbadessa G,Dalò F,France DS,Broggini M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With current techniques, it remains a challenge to assess coregulator binding of nuclear receptors, for example, the estrogen receptor alpha (ERα). ERα is critical in many breast tumors and is inhibited by antiestrogens such as tamoxifen in cancer therapy. ERα is also modified by acetylation and phosphorylation that a...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Houtman R,de Leeuw R,Rondaij M,Melchers D,Verwoerd D,Ruijtenbeek R,Martens JW,Neefjes J,Michalides R

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:Genotoxic stress such as ionizing radiation halts entry into mitosis by activation of the G(2) DNA damage checkpoint. The CHK1 inhibitor 7-hydroxystaurosporine (UCN-01) can bypass the checkpoint and induce unscheduled mitosis in irradiated cells. Precisely, how cells behave following checkpoint abrogation remains to b...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： On KF,Chen Y,Ma HT,Chow JP,Poon RY

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of approved antiangiogenic drugs is constantly growing and emphasizes the need for predictive biomarkers. The aim of this study was to analyze the predictive value of epidermal growth factor-like domain 7 (EGFL7) and microRNA-126 (miR126) to first-line chemotherapy combined with bevacizumab, in patients wit...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Hansen TF,Nielsen BS,Sørensen FB,Johnsson A,Jakobsen A

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific delivery to tumors and efficient cellular uptake of nucleic acids remain major challenges for gene-targeted cancer therapies. Here we report the use of a designed ankyrin repeat protein (DARPin) specific for the epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) as a carrier for small interfering RNA (siRNA) complemen...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Winkler J,Martin-Killias P,Plückthun A,Zangemeister-Wittke U

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated integrin-linked kinase (ILK), a focal adhesion serine-threonine protein kinase, as a new molecular target for treating anaplastic thyroid cancer. ILK mediates cell growth and survival signals and is overexpressed in a number of cancers. Therefore, we hypothesized that inhibition of ILK leads to growth ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Younes MN,Kim S,Yigitbasi OG,Mandal M,Jasser SA,Dakak Yazici Y,Schiff BA,El-Naggar A,Bekele BN,Mills GB,Myers JN

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine kinase inhibitors exhibit impressive activity against advanced renal cell carcinoma. However, recent clinical studies have shown an equivocal response to sunitinib in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer. The tumor suppressor PTEN acts as a gatekeeper of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Makhov PB,Golovine K,Kutikov A,Teper E,Canter DJ,Simhan J,Uzzo RG,Kolenko VM

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant mesothelioma is an aggressive tumor of the serosal surfaces of the lungs, heart, and abdomen. Survival rates are poor and effective treatments are not available. However, recent therapeutic regimens targeting thymidylate synthase (TS) in malignant mesothelioma patients have shown promise. We have reported th...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Flynn J,Berg RW,Wong T,van Aken M,Vincent MD,Fukushima M,Koropatnick J

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ewing's sarcoma is a pediatric cancer of the bone that is characterized by the expression of the chimeric transcription factor EWS-FLI1 that confers a highly malignant phenotype and results from the chromosomal translocation t(11;22)(q24;q12). Poor overall survival and pronounced long-term side effects associated with...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Winter GE,Rix U,Lissat A,Stukalov A,Müllner MK,Bennett KL,Colinge J,Nijman SM,Kubicek S,Kovar H,Kontny U,Superti-Furga G

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the "one-bead one-peptide" combinatorial technology, a library of random cyclic octapeptides and nonapeptides, consisting of natural and unnatural amino acids, was synthesized on polystyrene beads. This library was used to screen for peptides that promoted attachment and proliferation of bronchioloalveolar carci...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Mikawa M,Wang H,Guo L,Liu R,Marik J,Takada Y,Lam K,Lau D

更新日期：2004-10-01 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