Directed phenotype switching as an effective antimelanoma strategy.

abstract：:In this issue of Cancer Cell, Gruber et al. report that a significant proportion of children with acute megakaryoblastic leukemia acquire a translocation that confers enhanced BMP signaling and promotes self-renewal of hematopoietic progenitors. This study presents novel therapeutic targets that may lead to improved t...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Crispino JD,Le Beau MM

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Benign neurofibromas and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors are serious complications of neurofibromatosis type 1. The epidermal growth factor receptor is not expressed by normal Schwann cells, yet is overexpressed in subpopulations of Nf1 mutant Schwann cells. We evaluated the role of EGFR in Schwann cell tumor...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Ling BC,Wu J,Miller SJ,Monk KR,Shamekh R,Rizvi TA,Decourten-Myers G,Vogel KS,DeClue JE,Ratner N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two recurrent mutations, K27M and G34R/V, within histone variant H3.3 were recently identified in ∼50% of pHGGs. Both mutations define clinically and biologically distinct subgroups of pHGGs. Here, we provide further insight about the dominant-negative effect of K27M mutant H3.3, leading to a global reduction of the r...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Bender S,Tang Y,Lindroth AM,Hovestadt V,Jones DT,Kool M,Zapatka M,Northcott PA,Sturm D,Wang W,Radlwimmer B,Højfeldt JW,Truffaux N,Castel D,Schubert S,Ryzhova M,Seker-Cin H,Gronych J,Johann PD,Stark S,Meyer J,Mil

更新日期：2013-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:TERT promoter mutations reactivate telomerase, allowing for indefinite telomere maintenance and enabling cellular immortalization. These mutations specifically recruit the multimeric ETS factor GABP, which can form two functionally independent transcription factor species: a dimer or a tetramer. We show that genetic d...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Mancini A,Xavier-Magalhães A,Woods WS,Nguyen KT,Amen AM,Hayes JL,Fellmann C,Gapinske M,McKinney AM,Hong C,Jones LE,Walsh KM,Bell RJA,Doudna JA,Costa BM,Song JS,Perez-Pinera P,Costello JF

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell engineering is a powerful means to rapidly generate anti-tumor T cells. The costimulatory properties of second-generation chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) determine the overall potency of adoptively transferred T cells. Using an in vivo "stress test" to challenge CD19-targeted T cells, we studied the functiona...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Zhao Z,Condomines M,van der Stegen SJC,Perna F,Kloss CC,Gunset G,Plotkin J,Sadelain M

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight control of the tyrosine kinase activity of c-Src is critical for regulating its oncogenic potential. In a recent issue of Molecular Cell, Oneyama et al. (2008a) report that the membrane-bound adaptor protein Cbp (also known as PAG) can suppress c-Src-mediated cell transformation and tumorigenesis by binding and ...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Resh MD

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuro-glial activation is a recently identified hallmark of growing cancers. Targeting tumor hyperinnervation in preclinical and small clinical trials has yielded promising antitumor effects, highlighting the need of systematic analysis of neural influences in cancer (NIC). Here, we outline the strategies translating ...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Demir IE,Reyes CM,Alrawashdeh W,Ceyhan GO,Deborde S,Friess H,Görgülü K,Istvanffy R,Jungwirth D,Kuner R,Maryanovich M,Na'ara S,Renders S,Saloman JL,Scheff NN,Steenfadt H,Stupakov P,Thiel V,Verma D,Yilmaz BS,White R

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Unresponsiveness to therapy is a hallmark feature of advanced metastatic melanoma. However, the discovery of BRAF-activating mutations in approximately 50% of human melanomas has provided an attractive therapeutic target. Here, we discuss two recent publications focusing on the mutant BRAF kinase inhibitor PLX4032 tha...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Vultur A,Villanueva J,Herlyn M

更新日期：2010-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Adoptive T cell immunotherapy is an evolving technology with the potential of providing a means to safely and effectively target tumor cells for destruction. ...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Ho WY,Blattman JN,Dossett ML,Yee C,Greenberg PD

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidating the determinants of aggressiveness in lethal prostate cancer may stimulate therapeutic strategies that improve clinical outcomes. We used experimental models and clinical databases to identify GATA2 as a regulator of chemotherapy resistance and tumorigenicity in this context. Mechanistically, direct upregu...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Vidal SJ,Rodriguez-Bravo V,Quinn SA,Rodriguez-Barrueco R,Lujambio A,Williams E,Sun X,de la Iglesia-Vicente J,Lee A,Readhead B,Chen X,Galsky M,Esteve B,Petrylak DP,Dudley JT,Rabadan R,Silva JM,Hoshida Y,Lowe SW,Cordo

更新日期：2015-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) recycling is of critical importance for RTK signaling and cancer, yet the process is poorly understood. In this issue, Ye et al. identify GOLM1 as a cargo adaptor that drives hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis by promoting EGFR recycling and provide insights into how this process is reg...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Hung MC,Yang R,Sun Y

更新日期：2016-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy targeting CD19 has yielded remarkable outcomes in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. To identify potential CAR targets in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), we probed the AML surfaceome for overexpressed molecules with tolerable systemic expression. We integrated large trans...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Perna F,Berman SH,Soni RK,Mansilla-Soto J,Eyquem J,Hamieh M,Hendrickson RC,Brennan CW,Sadelain M

更新日期：2017-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Cancer Cell, Tummala and colleagues demonstrate that unconventional prefoldin RPB5 interactor (URI) expression in hepatocytes leads to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development by interacting with L-tryptophan/kynurenine/nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD(+)) metabolism. The results suggest that ...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Mederacke I,Schwabe RF

更新日期：2014-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Current strategies combining anti-angiogenic drugs with chemotherapy provide clinical benefit in cancer patients. It is assumed that anti-angiogenic drugs, such as bevacizumab, transiently normalize abnormal tumor vasculature and contribute to improved delivery of subsequent chemotherapy. To investigate this concept, ...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Van der Veldt AA,Lubberink M,Bahce I,Walraven M,de Boer MP,Greuter HN,Hendrikse NH,Eriksson J,Windhorst AD,Postmus PE,Verheul HM,Serné EH,Lammertsma AA,Smit EF

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular mechanisms associated with tumor metastasis remain poorly understood. Here we report that acquired expression of periostin by colon cancer cells greatly promoted metastatic development of colon tumors. Periostin is overexpressed in more than 80% of human colon cancers examined with highest expression in meta...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Bao S,Ouyang G,Bai X,Huang Z,Ma C,Liu M,Shao R,Anderson RM,Rich JN,Wang XF

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mice, Lkb1 deletion and activation of Kras(G12D) results in lung tumors with a high penetrance of lymph node and distant metastases. We analyzed these primary and metastatic de novo lung cancers with integrated genomic and proteomic profiles, and have identified gene and phosphoprotein signatures associated with Lk...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Carretero J,Shimamura T,Rikova K,Jackson AL,Wilkerson MD,Borgman CL,Buttarazzi MS,Sanofsky BA,McNamara KL,Brandstetter KA,Walton ZE,Gu TL,Silva JC,Crosby K,Shapiro GI,Maira SM,Ji H,Castrillon DH,Kim CF,García-Echeve

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized the landscape and drug sensitivity of ERBB2 (HER2) mutations in cancers. In 11 datasets (n = 211,726), ERBB2 mutational hotspots varied across 25 tumor types. Common HER2 mutants yielded differential sensitivities to eleven EGFR/HER2 tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) in vitro, and molecular dynamics s...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Robichaux JP,Elamin YY,Vijayan RSK,Nilsson MB,Hu L,He J,Zhang F,Pisegna M,Poteete A,Sun H,Li S,Chen T,Han H,Negrao MV,Ahnert JR,Diao L,Wang J,Le X,Meric-Bernstam F,Routbort M,Roeck B,Yang Z,Raymond VM,Lanman

更新日期：2019-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic changes are the most common alterations in human cancer, but it has been difficult to sort out cause and effect from studies of human tumors. Several recent nonlethal mouse models implicate both hypomethylation and loss of imprinting (LOI) in tumor formation, including a paper in this issue of Cancer Cell s...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Feinberg AP

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 6 (eIF6) controls translation by regulating 80S subunit formation. eIF6 is overexpressed in tumors. Here, we demonstrate that eIF6 inactivation delays tumorigenesis and reduces tumor growth in vivo. eIF6(+/-) mice resist to Myc-induced lymphomagenesis and have prolonged tumor-free survival...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Miluzio A,Beugnet A,Grosso S,Brina D,Mancino M,Campaner S,Amati B,de Marco A,Biffo S

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting chromatin regulators for the treatment of malignancies has shown great promise, but also revealed significant challenges. By employing an elegant shRNA screen and a selective pharmacological inhibitor, a recent study published in Nature establishes the bromodomain protein Brd4 as novel target in acute myeloi...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Blobel GA,Kalota A,Sanchez PV,Carroll M

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer genome sequencing efforts have revealed the novel theme that chromatin modifiers are frequently mutated across a wide spectrum of cancers. Mutations in genes encoding subunits of SWI/SNF (BAF) chromatin remodeling complexes are particularly prevalent, occurring in 20% of all human cancers. As these are typicall...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Helming KC,Wang X,Roberts CWM

更新日期：2014-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of ERK-MAPK signaling by expression of dominant-negative MEK1 in the tumor vasculature suppresses angiogenesis and tumor growth. In an organotypic tissue culture angiogenesis assay, ERK-MAPK inhibition during the migratory phase results in loss of bipolarity, detachment, and cell death of isolated endotheli...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Mavria G,Vercoulen Y,Yeo M,Paterson H,Karasarides M,Marais R,Bird D,Marshall CJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:STAT3 plays many roles in tumorigenesis. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Kortylewski et al. show that in the tumor microenvironment, STAT3 enhances the expression of the protumor cytokine IL-23 in macrophages but inhibits the antitumor cytokine IL-12 in dendritic cells. STAT3 also mediates IL-23's effect of activating t...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Stewart CA,Trinchieri G

更新日期：2009-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Cancer Cell, Sonoshita et al. report that Aes/Grg5 prevents metastasis of colorectal cancer cells by sequestering and inactivating Notch transcriptional effectors in distinct nuclear foci. Loss of Aes/Grg5 in invasive cancer cells where Notch is activated by stroma-expressed ligands promotes invasion,...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Christofori G

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Activating mutations in the FLT3 receptor tyrosine kinase occur in 30% of patients with acute myeloid leukemia. Small molecule FLT3 kinase inhibitors show selective antitumor activity in preclinical models. Clinical studies are underway. ...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Sawyers CL

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer-associated chromosomal translocations create chimeric oncoproteins that contribute to aberrant growth by dominant or dominant negative mechanisms. Interestingly, genes such as MLL, RARA, and EWS are fused to multiple partners. This molecular promiscuity can provide important functional information, as specific ...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Braun BS,Shannon K

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) frequently acquire resistance to Smoothened (SMO) inhibitors through unknown mechanisms. Here we identify SMO mutations in 50% (22 of 44) of resistant BCCs and show that these mutations maintain Hedgehog signaling in the presence of SMO inhibitors. Alterations include four ligand ...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Atwood SX,Sarin KY,Whitson RJ,Li JR,Kim G,Rezaee M,Ally MS,Kim J,Yao C,Chang AL,Oro AE,Tang JY

更新日期：2015-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Defective V(D)J rearrangement of immunoglobulin heavy or light chain (IgH or IgL) or class switch recombination (CSR) can initiate chromosomal translocations. The DNA-damage kinase ATM is required for the suppression of chromosomal translocations but ATM regulation is incompletely understood. Here, we show that mice l...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Loizou JI,Sancho R,Kanu N,Bolland DJ,Yang F,Rada C,Corcoran AE,Behrens A

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A large body of evidence indicates that chronic inflammation is one of several key risk factors for cancer initiation, progression, and metastasis. However, the underlying mechanisms responsible for the contribution of inflammation and inflammatory mediators to cancer remain elusive. Here, we present genetic evidence ...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Katoh H,Wang D,Daikoku T,Sun H,Dey SK,Dubois RN

更新日期：2013-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The TIGAR protein has antioxidant activity that supports intestinal tissue repair and adenoma development. Using a pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) model, we show that reactive oxygen species (ROS) regulation by TIGAR supports premalignant tumor initiation while restricting metastasis. Increased ROS in PDAC cel...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Cheung EC,DeNicola GM,Nixon C,Blyth K,Labuschagne CF,Tuveson DA,Vousden KH

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00