Is there a Role for Epigenetic Enhancement of Immunomodulatory Approaches to Cancer Treatment?

abstract：:Gastrointestinal (GI) tumors are among the leading cause of death in cancer patients worldwide. Particularly, gastric cancer (GC) is the third cause of cancer deaths, whereas esophageal neoplasm is the eighth leading most common cancer worldwide and its incidence, especially adenocarcinoma type, is continuously increa...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Berretta M,Romano C,Di Francia R,De Diviitis C,Canzonieri V,Caraglia M,Facchini G,Nasti G

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The solute carrier family 7 (SLC7) can be categorically divided into two subfamilies, the L-type amino acid transporters (LATs) including SLC7A5-13, and SLC7A15, and the cationic amino acid transporters (CATs) including SLC7A1-4 and SLC7A14. Members of the CAT family transport predominantly cationic amino ac...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Lu X

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNA (miRNA) therapy, which was widely considered to treat a series of cancer, has been confronted with numerous obstacles to being delivered into target cells because of its easy biodegradation and instability. METHODS:In this research, we successfully constructed 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid modified go...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Yan LJ,Guo XH,Wang WP,Hu YR,Duan SF,Liu Y,Sun Z,Huang SN,Li HL

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncolytic viruses can selectively replicate in and lead to tumor cell lysis with minimal infection/replication potential in adjoining non-neoplastic tissue. Because of paramount safety concerns, first-generation oncolytic viruses were designed to be significantly attenuated in their lytic potential. Results from recen...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Hardcastle J,Kurozumi K,Chiocca EA,Kaur B

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With increasing incidence of cancer at most of the sites, and growing economic burden and associated psychological and emotional trauma, it is becoming clearer that more efforts are needed for cancer cure. Since most of the chemotherapeutic drugs are non-selective because they are also toxic to the normal cells, new a...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Kaur M,Agarwal R

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection of treatment options for clinically localized prostate cancer is based on a host of factors including the patient's age, overall health status, potential complications, clinical tumor stage and Gleason score. It is widely acknowledged that androgen independent disease remains the main obstacle to improving t...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Garrison JB,Kyprianou N

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitin system controls protein stability and function. F-box proteins form SCF (SKP1-Cullin1-F-box protein)-type ubiquitin (E3) ligases to selectively target their substrates for degradation via the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Here, we review F-box proteins associated with cancer development. S-phase kinase-a...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Kitagawa K,Kitagawa M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The integrin family of cell surface receptors integrates cell-extracellular matrix interactions with the cell cytoskeleton and signalling across the cell membrane, resulting in an important role in cell adhesion, mobility and migration, proliferation, and survival. Changes in the number and identity of integrin recept...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Sheldrake HM,Patterson LH

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polysialic acid (polySia) is a carbohydrate polymer critical for neuronal cell migration and axon pathfinding in embryonic development. Besides brain regions requiring persistent neuronal plasticity, polySia is essentially absent from the adult body. However, polySia is aberrantly re-expressed on many tumours, where i...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Falconer RA,Errington RJ,Shnyder SD,Smith PJ,Patterson LH

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (Ang II), a main effector peptide of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS), mediates a hormonal action in the maintenance of blood pressure and electrolyte levels, and thus fluid homeostasis. Ang II also mediates paracrine, autocrine and/or intracrine actions in the control of various specific functions of...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Lau ST,Leung PS

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of advanced non � small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) increasingly involves the use of molecularly targeted therapy with activity against either the tumor directly, or indirectly, through activity against host-derived mechanisms of tumor support such as angiogenesis. The most well studied signaling pathway as...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Kono SA,Heasley LE,Doebele RC,Camidge DR

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AKT is a central signaling molecule in regulating cell survival, proliferation, tumor growth and angiogenesis. Upstream components of AKT signaling pathway such as PI3K, PTEN, and Ras are commonly mutated in many human cancers. Recently it is found that AKT plays an important role in regulating normal vascularization ...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Jiang BH,Liu LZ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the challenges of cancer therapeutics is to discover targets unique to the tumor cell population. Constitutively activated tyrosine kinases play a role in the malignant phenotype in a number of different cancers. While the kinases may be present in the normal cell, the cancer cell is often dependent upon the ac...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Ritchie E,Nichols G

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this early phase of the new era of molecularly targeted patient friendly cancer chemotherapy, there is a need for novel viable anticancer molecular targets. The MDM2 oncoprotein has been validated as a potential target for cancer drug development. MDM2 amplification and/or overexpression occur in a wide variety of ...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Buolamwini JK,Addo J,Kamath S,Patil S,Mason D,Ores M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic characterization of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) by DNA sequencing has illuminated subclasses of the disease, with distinct driver mutations, that might be responsive to targeted therapies. Approximately 15-23% of AML genomes harbor mutations in one of two isoforms of isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH1 or IDH2...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Becker JS,Fathi AT

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is a critical enzyme implicated in chronic inflammation-associated cancer development. Our studies have shown that the exposure of Beas-2B cells, a human bronchial epithelial cell line, to lung carcinogenic nickel compounds results in increased COX-2 expression. However, the signaling pathways...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Cai T,Li X,Ding J,Luo W,Li J,Huang C

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membranous Met is classically identified with its role in cancer metastases, while nuclear Met is associated with a more invasive, aggressive and proliferative form of cancer. Full-length Met or N-terminal transmembrane domain cleaved Met can translocate into nucleus in a cell growth and pH dependent but both ligand-d...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Xie Y,Istayeva S,Chen Z,Tokay T,Zhumadilov Z,Wu D,Hortelano G,Zhang J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant expression of the RON receptor tyrosine kinase contributes to breast cancer malignancy. Although clinical trials of RON targeting are underway, the intriguing issue is the diversity of RON expression as evident by cancer cells expressing different variants including oncogenic RON160. The current study determi...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Yao HP,Zhuang CM,Zhou YQ,Zeng JY,Zhang RW,Wang MH

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi) belong to a novel class of drugs able to act on the epigenome, indirectly remodeling the spatial conformation of the chromatin: by increasing histone acetylation these drugs ultimately promote the detachment of the DNA from the nucleosome octamer, therefore allowing the access of...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Rodriguez-Menendez V,Tremolizzo L,Cavaletti G

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intestinal β-glucuronidase enzyme has a significant importance in colorectal carcinogenesis. Specific inhibition of the enzyme helps prevent immune reactivation of the glucuronide- carcinogens, thus protecting the intestine from ROS (Reactive Oxidative Species) mediatedcarcinogenesis. OBJECTIVES:Advancement...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Yousuf M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the crucial reasons of breast cancer therapy failure is an impairment of mechanisms responsible for metabolism and cellular homeostasis, which makes it difficult to foresee the response to the treatment. Targeted therapy in breast cancer is dictated by the expression of specific molecules such as growth factor ...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Lisiak N,Toton E,Rybczynska M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) system (uPAS) consists of the uPA, its cognate receptor (uPAR) and two specific inhibitors, the plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) and 2 (PAI-2). The uPA converts the proenzyme plasminogen in the serine protease plasmin, involved in a number of physiopathological proces...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Ulisse S,Baldini E,Sorrenti S,D'Armiento M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Wilms' tumor gene WT1 is expressed at high levels not only in most of acute myelocytic, acute lymphocytic, and chronic myelocytic leukemia, but also in various types of solid tumors including lung cancer. We tested the ability of the gene product (WT1) to serve as a target antigen for tumor specific immunot...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Oka Y,Tsuboi A,Elisseeva OA,Udaka K,Sugiyama H

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of the FHIT and TP53 genes is frequently observed in primary non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) and cell lines and may contribute to resistance to apoptotic stimuli elicited by various anti-tumor drugs. To evaluate a possible relationship between FHIT and TP53 status and response to platinum-analogue reg...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Cortinovis DL,Andriani F,Livio A,Fabbri A,Perrone F,Marcomini B,Pilotti S,Mariani L,Bidoli P,Bajetta E,Roz L,Sozzi G

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cetuximab (IMC-C225, Erbitux ImClone Systems Inc, New York, NY) is a recombinant, human/mouse chimeric monoclonal antibody (MAb) that binds specifically to the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) on both normal and tumor cells, and competitively inhibits the binding of epidermal g...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Vincenzi B,Zoccoli A,Pantano F,Venditti O,Galluzzo S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cathepsin D (CATD), one of the aspartyl endoproteinase involved in different physiological processes and signaling pathways, is accountable for metabolic breakdown of intracellular proteins, the activation of growth factors, hormones, and precursors of enzyme, the processing of antigens, enzyme inhibitors an...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Dubey V,Luqman S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histone deacetylase inhibitors are a new class of cytostatic agents that inhibit the proliferation of tumor cells in culture and in vivo by inducing cell cycle arrest, differentiation and/or apoptosis. Histone acetylation and deacetylation play important roles in the modulation of chromatin topology and the regula...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Vigushin DM,Coombes RC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), considered to be one of the most lethal cancers with almost > 1 million deaths reported annually worldwide, remains a devastating disease with no known effective cure. Hence, chemopreventive strategies come into play, offering an effective and safe mode of treatment, ideal to ward off p...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Thoppil RJ,Bhatia D,Barnes KF,Haznagy-Radnai E,Hohmann J,Darvesh AS,Bishayee A

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improving poorly soluble drugs into druggability was a major problem faced by pharmaceutists. Nanosuspension can improve the druggability of insoluble drugs by improving the solubility, chemical stability and reducing the use of additives, which provided a new approach for the development and application of ...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Cao Y,Wei Z,Li M,Wang H,Yin L,Chen D,Wang Y,Chen Y,Yuan Q,Pu X,Zong L,Duan S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The resistance of tumors to a number of structurally and functionally unrelated chemotherapeutic drugs has been a major obstacle for successful cancer chemotherapy. An important mechanism leading to multidrug resistance (MDR) is the overexpression of the 170 kDa P-glycoprotein (P-gp), which is a member of the ATP-bind...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Santos SA,Paulo A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00