Hsp90 inhibitors promote p53-dependent apoptosis through PUMA and Bax.

abstract：:The present studies have determined whether interactions between the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor flavopiridol and the histone deacetylase inhibitor suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA; vorinostat; Zolinza) occur in breast cancer cells. MDA-MB-231 and MCF7 cells were treated with flavopiridol (25-100 nmol/L) an...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Mitchell C,Park MA,Zhang G,Yacoub A,Curiel DT,Fisher PB,Roberts JD,Grant S,Dent P

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) can arise from chronic inflammation due to viral infection, organ damage, drug toxicity, or alcohol abuse. Moreover, gene desensitization via aberrant CpG island methylation is a frequent epigenetic defect in HCC. However, the details of how inflammation is linked with epigenetic-mediate...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Li CF,Tsai HH,Ko CY,Pan YC,Yen CJ,Lai HY,Yuh CH,Wu WC,Wang JM

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:The protein kinase family represents an enormous opportunity for drug development. However, the current limitation in structural diversity of kinase inhibitors has complicated efforts to identify effective treatments of diseases that involve protein kinase signaling pathways. We have identified a new structural class ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Hamdouchi C,Keyser H,Collins E,Jaramillo C,De Diego JE,Spencer CD,Dempsey JA,Anderson BD,Leggett T,Stamm NB,Schultz RM,Watkins SA,Cocke K,Lemke S,Burke TF,Beckmann RP,Dixon JT,Gurganus TM,Rankl NB,Houck KA,Zhang F

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bladder cancer is a common human malignancy. Conventional ultrasound and white-light cystoscopy are often used for bladder cancer diagnosis and resection, but insufficient specificity results in a high bladder cancer recurrence rate. New strategies for the diagnosis and resection of bladder cancer are needed. In this ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Peng L,Shang W,Guo P,He K,Wang H,Han Z,Jiang H,Tian J,Wang K,Xu W

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is widely overexpressed in cancer cells and necessary for maintenance of malignant phenotypes. Hsp90 inhibition induces tumor cell death through degradation of its client oncoproteins and has shown promises in preclinical studies. However, the mechanism by which Hsp90 inhibitors kill tumo...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Tong J,Tan S,Nikolovska-Coleska Z,Yu J,Zou F,Zhang L

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonselective inhibitors of human histone deacetylases (HDAC) are known to have antitumor activity in mice in vivo, and several of them are under clinical investigation. The first of these, Vorinostat (SAHA), has been approved for treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Questions remain concerning which HDAC isotype(s)...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Fournel M,Bonfils C,Hou Y,Yan PT,Trachy-Bourget MC,Kalita A,Liu J,Lu AH,Zhou NZ,Robert MF,Gillespie J,Wang JJ,Ste-Croix H,Rahil J,Lefebvre S,Moradei O,Delorme D,Macleod AR,Besterman JM,Li Z

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GA101 is a novel glycoengineered Type II CD20 monoclonal antibody. When compared with rituximab, it mediates less complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC). As expected for a Type II antibody, GA101 appears not to act through CDC and is more potent than the Type I antibody rituximab in inducing cell death via nonclassic...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Dalle S,Reslan L,Besseyre de Horts T,Herveau S,Herting F,Plesa A,Friess T,Umana P,Klein C,Dumontet C

更新日期：2011-01-01 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

abstract：:Many malignant human tumors, including melanomas, are auxotrophic for arginine due to reduced expression of argininosuccinate synthetase-1 (ASS1), the rate-limiting enzyme for arginine biosynthesis. Pegylated arginine deiminase (ADI-PEG20), which degrades extracellular arginine, resulting in arginine deprivation, has ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Long Y,Tsai WB,Wangpaichitr M,Tsukamoto T,Savaraj N,Feun LG,Kuo MT

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mps1 is a dual specificity protein kinase that is essential for the bipolar attachment of chromosomes to the mitotic spindle and for maintaining the spindle assembly checkpoint until all chromosomes are properly attached. Mps1 is expressed at high levels during mitosis and is abundantly expressed in cancer cells. Disr...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Tardif KD,Rogers A,Cassiano J,Roth BL,Cimbora DM,McKinnon R,Peterson A,Douce TB,Robinson R,Dorweiler I,Davis T,Hess MA,Ostanin K,Papac DI,Baichwal V,McAlexander I,Willardsen JA,Saunders M,Christophe H,Kumar DV,Wet

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting of epigenetic regulators as the chromatin remodeler SWI/SNF is proving to be a promising therapeutic strategy for individualized treatment of cancer patients. Here, we tested whether targeting one of the two mutually exclusive subdomains of the SWI/SNF complex BRM/SMARCA2 can sensitize specifically non-small...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Zernickel E,Sak A,Riaz A,Klein D,Groneberg M,Stuschke M

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MET receptor tyrosine kinase, the receptor for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), has been implicated in cancer growth, invasion, migration, angiogenesis, and metastasis in a broad variety of human cancers, including human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Recently, MET was suggested to be a potential target for the pe...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Jo JC,Choi EK,Shin JS,Moon JH,Hong SW,Lee HR,Kim SM,Jung SA,Lee DH,Jung SH,Lee SH,Kim JE,Kim KP,Hong YS,Suh YA,Jang SJ,Choi EK,Lee JS,Jin DH,Kim TW

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytosine analogue decitabine alters hematopoietic differentiation. For example, decitabine treatment increases self-renewal of normal hematopoietic stem cells. The mechanisms underlying decitabine-induced shifts in differentiation are poorly understood, but likely relate to the ability of decitabine to deplete the...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Hu Z,Negrotto S,Gu X,Mahfouz R,Ng KP,Ebrahem Q,Copelan E,Singh H,Maciejewski JP,Saunthararajah Y

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiestrogens are effective therapies for the management of many estrogen receptor-alpha (ER)-positive breast cancers. Nonetheless, both de novo and acquired resistance occur and remain major problems in the clinical setting. IFNgamma is an inflammatory cytokine that induces the expression and function of IFN regulato...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Ning Y,Riggins RB,Mulla JE,Chung H,Zwart A,Clarke R

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CC-RCC) is a devastating disease with limited therapeutic options available for advanced stages. The objective of this study was to investigate HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, also known as statins, as potential therapeutics for CC-RCC. Importantly, treatment with statins was found to be...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Thompson JM,Alvarez A,Singha MK,Pavesic MW,Nguyen QH,Nelson LJ,Fruman DA,Razorenova OV

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer death in North America. Gemcitabine improves the quality of life of patients but fails to significantly reduce mortality. Our laboratory has demonstrated previously that the phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase inhibitor wortmannin promotes gemcitabine antitumor activit...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Ng SS,Tsao MS,Nicklee T,Hedley DW

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor protein p53 is a potent inducer of apoptosis in transformed cells. Hdm2 is an ubiquitin ligase (E3) that acts as a major regulator of p53 by promoting its ubiquitylation and proteasomal degradation. For this reason, inhibiting the E3 activity of Hdm2 has been proposed as a therapeutic approach for...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Kitagaki J,Agama KK,Pommier Y,Yang Y,Weissman AM

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:miR34a is a tumor-suppressor miRNA that functions within the p53 pathway to regulate cell-cycle progression and apoptosis. With apparent roles in metastasis and cancer stem cell development, miR34a provides an interesting opportunity for therapeutic development. A mimic of miR34a was complexed with an amphoteric lipos...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Daige CL,Wiggins JF,Priddy L,Nelligan-Davis T,Zhao J,Brown D

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measles viruses (MV) are rapidly inactivated by anti-measles neutralizing antibodies, which has limited their clinical performance as oncolytic agents. Here, by substituting the H and F surface glycoproteins of MV with those from the homologous canine distemper virus (CDV) and engineering the CDV H attachment protein ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Bah ES,Nace RA,Peng KW,Muñoz-Alía MÁ,Russell SJ

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary mechanism of antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) is targeted delivery of a cytotoxic payload to tumor cells via cancer-associated membrane receptors. However, the tumor microenvironment likely plays a role in ADC penetration, distribution, and processing and thus impacts the overall antitumor activity. Here, we...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Li F,Ulrich M,Jonas M,Stone IJ,Linares G,Zhang X,Westendorf L,Benjamin DR,Law CL

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-associated urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) is a critical marker of invasion and metastasis, has strong prognostic relevance, and is thus a potential therapeutic target. Experimental data published to date has established the proof-of-principle of uPA targeting by (213)Bi-labeled plasminogen activator inhib...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Stutchbury TK,Al-Ejeh F,Stillfried GE,Croucher DR,Andrews J,Irving D,Links M,Ranson M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have identified silibinin as an anticarcinogenic agent. Recently, we showed that silibinin inhibits cell growth via G1 arrest, leading to differentiation of androgen-dependent human prostate carcinoma LNCaP cells (X. Zi and R. Agarwal, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 96: 7490-7495,1999). Here, we extend th...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Tyagi A,Agarwal C,Agarwal R

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) is a tumor-specific protease highly expressed in several types of solid tumors and rarely present on normal cells under physiologic conditions. Due to its high expression on metastatic tumors, several different strategies have been used to target the urokinase system. These have m...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Abi-Habib RJ,Singh R,Liu S,Bugge TH,Leppla SH,Frankel AE

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospho-sulindac is a sulindac derivative with promising anticancer activity in lung cancer, but its limited metabolic stability presents a major challenge for systemic therapy. We reasoned that inhalation delivery of phospho-sulindac might overcome first-pass metabolism and produce high levels of intact drug in lung ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Cheng KW,Wong CC,Alston N,Mackenzie GG,Huang L,Ouyang N,Xie G,Wiedmann T,Rigas B

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cannabinoid 1 (CB(1)) and cannabinoid 2 (CB(2)) receptor agonist Delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) has been shown to be a broad-range inhibitor of cancer in culture and in vivo, and is currently being used in a clinical trial for the treatment of glioblastoma. It has been suggested that other plant-derived canna...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Marcu JP,Christian RT,Lau D,Zielinski AJ,Horowitz MP,Lee J,Pakdel A,Allison J,Limbad C,Moore DH,Yount GL,Desprez PY,McAllister SD

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rac1 GTPase regulates a variety of signaling pathways that are implicated in malignant phenotypes. Here, we show that selective inhibition of Rac1 activity by the pharmacologic inhibitor NSC23766 suppressed cell growth in a panel of human breast cancer cell lines, whereas it had little toxicity to normal mammary epith...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Yoshida T,Zhang Y,Rivera Rosado LA,Chen J,Khan T,Moon SY,Zhang B

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oncoprotein Eps8 facilitates proliferation in fibroblasts and colon cancer cells. However, its role in human cervical cancer is unclear. By immunohistochemical staining and Western blotting, aberrant Eps8 expression was observed in cervical carcinoma compared with normal cervical epithelial cells. Clinicopathologi...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Chen YJ,Shen MR,Chen YJ,Maa MC,Leu TH

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite significant advances in combinations of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, altered fractionation schedules and image-guided radiotherapy, many cancer patients fail to benefit from radiation. A prevailing hypothesis is that targeting repair of DNA double strand breaks (DSB) can enhance radiation effects in the tumo...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Efimova EV,Ricco N,Labay E,Mauceri HJ,Flor AC,Ramamurthy A,Sutton HG,Weichselbaum RR,Kron SJ

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00