Targeting STAT3 with Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras and Next-Generation Antisense Oligonucleotides.

abstract：:Microtubule-targeting cancer drugs such as paclitaxel block cell-cycle progression at mitosis by prolonged activation of the mitotic checkpoint. Cells can spontaneously escape mitotic arrest and enter interphase without chromosome segregation by a process termed mitotic slippage that involves the degradation of cyclin...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Riffell JL,Jänicke RU,Roberge M

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:The p53 inactivation caused by aberrant expression of its major regulators (e.g., MDM2 and MDMX) contributes to the genesis of a large number of human cancers. Recent studies have shown that restoration of p53 activity by counteracting p53 repressors is a promising anticancer strategy. Although agents (e.g., nutlin-3a...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Wang H,Ma X,Ren S,Buolamwini JK,Yan C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most chemotherapy- and radiotherapy-resistant tumors. The c-Met and Hedgehog (Hh) pathways have been shown previously by our group to be key regulatory pathways in the primary tumor growth and metastases formation. Targeting both the HGF/c-Met and Hh pathways has s...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Rucki AA,Xiao Q,Muth S,Chen J,Che X,Kleponis J,Sharma R,Anders RA,Jaffee EM,Zheng L

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) are innate immune cells that potently inhibit T cells. In cancer, novel therapies aimed to activate T cells can be rendered ineffective due to the activity of MDSCs. Thus, targeted inhibition of MDSCs may greatly enhance T-cell-mediated antitumor immunity, but mechanisms remain ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Plebanek MP,Bhaumik D,Bryce PJ,Thaxton CS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) selectively kills tumor cells. However, its short half-life, poor delivery, and TRAIL-resistant tumor cells have diminished its clinical efficacy. In this study, we explored whether novel delivery methods will represent new and effective ways to treat gli...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Hingtgen S,Ren X,Terwilliger E,Classon M,Weissleder R,Shah K

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormone refractory metastatic prostate cancer is a deadly disease that currently lacks curative treatments. Conditionally replicating adenoviruses (CRAds) are promising new agents against cancer due to their innate capability to cause oncolysis of tumor cells. Their antitumor effect is determined in part by their capa...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Rajecki M,Kanerva A,Stenman UH,Tenhunen M,Kangasniemi L,Särkioja M,Ala-Opas MY,Alfthan H,Sankila A,Rintala E,Desmond RA,Hakkarainen T,Hemminki A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL are associated with treatment resistance and progression in many cancers, including prostate cancer. The objective of this study was to determine whether a novel bispecific antisense oligonucleotide targeting both Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL induces apoptosis and enhances chemosensitivity in androgen-independent...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Yamanaka K,Rocchi P,Miyake H,Fazli L,Vessella B,Zangemeister-Wittke U,Gleave ME

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：:COX-2 is upregulated in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC). However, how COX-2 promotes PDAC development is unclear. While previous studies have evaluated the efficacy of COX-2 inhibition via the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) or the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib in PDAC models, none have addres...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Hill R,Li Y,Tran LM,Dry S,Calvopina JH,Garcia A,Kim C,Wang Y,Donahue TR,Herschman HR,Wu H

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lavendamycin is a bacterially derived quinolinedione that displays significant antimicrobial and antitumor activities. However, preclinical development of lavendamycin as an anticancer agent was halted due to the poor aqueous solubility and relatively nonspecific cytotoxic activity of this compound. In this report, we...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Fang Y,Linardic CM,Richardson DA,Cai W,Behforouz M,Abraham RT

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive efforts are under way to identify antiangiogenic therapies for the treatment of human cancers. Many proposed therapeutics target vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) or the kinase insert domain receptor (KDR/VEGF receptor-2/FLK-1), the mitogenic VEGF receptor tyrosine kinase expressed by endothelial cel...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Hardwick JS,Yang Y,Zhang C,Shi B,McFall R,Koury EJ,Hill SL,Dai H,Wasserman R,Phillips RL,Weinstein EJ,Kohl NE,Severino ME,Lamb JR,Sepp-Lorenzino L

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TAS-121 is a novel orally active selective covalent inhibitor of the mutant EGFR. We performed preclinical characterization of TAS-121 and compared its efficacy and selectivity for common EGFR mutations (Ex19del and L858R), first- and second- generation EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI) resistance mutation (T7...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Ito K,Nishio M,Kato M,Murakami H,Aoyagi Y,Ohe Y,Okayama T,Hashimoto A,Ohsawa H,Tanaka G,Nonoshita K,Ito S,Matsuo K,Miyadera K

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among females. Many challenges exist in the current management of advanced stage breast cancer as there are fewer recognized therapeutic strategies, often because of therapy resistance. How breast cancer cells evade chemotherapy and the underlying mechanism r...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Sharma B,Nawandar DM,Nannuru KC,Varney ML,Singh RK

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the primary cause of cervical cancer in women. Although the HPV recombinant L1 protein was recently licensed as an available vaccine, it has numerous shortcomings. New vaccination strategies should be considered. To enable the design of a prophylactic and therapeutic low...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Bian T,Wang Y,Lu Z,Ye Z,Zhao L,Ren J,Zhang H,Ruan L,Tian H

更新日期：2008-05-01 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 anticancer actions of vitamin D and its hormonally active form, calcitriol, have been extensively documented in clinical and preclinical studies. However, the mechanisms underlying these actions have not been completely elucidated. Here, we examined the effect of dietary vitamin D and calcitriol on mouse breast tu...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Jeong Y,Swami S,Krishnan AV,Williams JD,Martin S,Horst RL,Albertelli MA,Feldman BJ,Feldman D,Diehn M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IPI-504 is a novel, highly soluble small-molecule inhibitor of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90), a protein chaperone essential for regulating homeostasis of oncoproteins and cell signaling proteins. Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2; ErbB2) oncoprotein, expressed in a subset of metastatic breast cancers, is ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Leow CC,Chesebrough J,Coffman KT,Fazenbaker CA,Gooya J,Weng D,Coats S,Jackson D,Jallal B,Chang Y

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis is the primary determinant of death in patients with diverse solid tumors and MDA-9/Syntenin (SDCBP), a pro-metastatic and pro-angiogenic gene, contributes to this process. Recently, we documented that by physically interacting with IGF-1R, MDA-9/Syntenin activates STAT3 and regulates prostate cancer pathog...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Das SK,Kegelman TP,Pradhan AK,Shen XN,Bhoopathi P,Talukdar S,Maji S,Sarkar D,Emdad L,Fisher PB

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have synthesized several new phenyl maleimide compounds, which are potent growth inhibitors of several human tumor cell lines. Among these, PM-20 was the most potent with an IC50 of 700 nmol/L for Hep3B human hepatoma cell growth. Two other derivatives, PM-26 and PM-38, did not inhibit Hep3B cell growth even at 100...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Kar S,Wang M,Yao W,Michejda CJ,Carr BI

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-protein mutations are one of the most common mutations occurring in uveal melanoma activating the protein kinase C (PKC)/mitogen-activated protein kinase and phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT pathways. In this study, we described the effect of dual pathway inhibition in uveal melanoma harboring GNAQ and GNA11 mut...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Musi E,Ambrosini G,de Stanchina E,Schwartz GK

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During camptothecin- and etoposide (VP-16)-induced apoptosis in HL-60 cells, the expression level of cell death receptor-3 (DR3), cell death receptor-4 (DR4), and FAS remained mostly unchanged, whereas the expression of silencers of death domain (SODD) and FLICE inhibitory proteins, inhibitors of the cell death recept...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Bergeron S,Beauchemin M,Bertrand R

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Near infrared photoimmunotherapy (NIR-PIT) is a new cancer treatment that combines the specificity of intravenously injected antibodies for targeting tumors with the toxicity induced by photosensitizers after exposure to near infrared (NIR) light. Herein, we evaluate the efficacy of NIR-PIT in a mouse model of dissemi...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Sato K,Hanaoka H,Watanabe R,Nakajima T,Choyke PL,Kobayashi H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raf inhibitors are under clinical investigation, specifically in patients with tumor types harboring frequent activating mutations in B-Raf. Here, we show that cell lines and tumors harboring mutant B-Raf were sensitive to a novel series of Raf inhibitors (e.g., (V600E)B-Raf A375, IC(50) on cells = 2 nmol/L; ED(50) on...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Carnahan J,Beltran PJ,Babij C,Le Q,Rose MJ,Vonderfecht S,Kim JL,Smith AL,Nagapudi K,Broome MA,Fernando M,Kha H,Belmontes B,Radinsky R,Kendall R,Burgess TL

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA repair protein O(6)-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) is known to play a role in sensitivity to temozolomide. Promoter hypermethylation of MGMT is commonly used to predict low expression levels of MGMT in gliomas, despite observed discordance between promoter methylation and protein levels. Here, we i...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Moen EL,Stark AL,Zhang W,Dolan ME,Godley LA

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:Bisperoxovanadium (bpV) compounds are irreversible protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) inhibitors with a spectrum of activity distinct from that of vanadium salts. We studied the efficacy of a panel of bpVs as antineoplastic agents in vitro and in vivo with a view to investigating phosphatases as potential antineoplast...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Scrivens PJ,Alaoui-Jamali MA,Giannini G,Wang T,Loignon M,Batist G,Sandor VA

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) easily acquires multidrug resistance after successful initial therapy. Overexpression of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters is important for the multidrug resistance. Among them, ABCB1 and ABCG2 are known to be upregulated in chemoresistant SCLC cells. We found that human epidermal g...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Minami T,Kijima T,Otani Y,Kohmo S,Takahashi R,Nagatomo I,Hirata H,Suzuki M,Inoue K,Takeda Y,Kida H,Tachibana I,Kumanogoh A

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fighting metastasis is a major challenge in cancer therapy and novel therapeutic targets and drugs are highly appreciated. Resistance of invasive cells to anoikis, a particular type of apoptosis induced by loss of cell-matrix contact, is a major prerequisite for their metastatic spread. Inducing anoikis in metastatic ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Schempp CM,von Schwarzenberg K,Schreiner L,Kubisch R,Müller R,Wagner E,Vollmar AM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00