Loss of heterozygosity at 13q14 correlates with RB1 gene underexpression in human breast cancer.

abstract：:We examined whether betulin, a naturally abundant compound, has anticancer functions in human cancer cells. The results showed that betulin significantly inhibited cell viability in cervix carcinoma HeLa cells, hepatoma HepG2 cells, lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells, and breast cancer MCF-7 cells with IC(50) values rangi...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Li Y,He K,Huang Y,Zheng D,Gao C,Cui L,Jin YH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DPC4/SMAD4 is a candidate tumor suppressor gene with a strikingly high frequency of gene alterations in pancreatic cancer that suggests a discrete role for DPC4 in these tumors. DPC4 tumor-suppressive function has been implicated to mediate the transforming growth factor-beta (TGFbeta)-suppressive pathway; however, in...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Dai JL,Schutte M,Bansal RK,Wilentz RE,Sugar AY,Kern SE

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal order of replication of several genes was studied in 10T1/2 cells synchronized by release from confluence-induced arrest of proliferation followed by treatment with 2 micrograms/mL aphidicolin for 24 h. DNA subjected to bromodeoxyuridine substitution for 1- or 2-h intervals spanning the S phase was separa...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Doggett NA,Cordeiro-Stone M,Chae CB,Kaufman DG

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have shown that E-cadherin expression is lost during malignant transformation. We hypothesized that CpG methylation in the promoter region may inactivate the expression of the E-cadherin gene in human bladder cancer. Normal and bladder cancer samples from 51 patients were compared in terms of E-cadheri...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Ribeiro-Filho LA,Franks J,Sasaki M,Shiina H,Li LC,Nojima D,Arap S,Carroll P,Enokida H,Nakagawa M,Yonezawa S,Dahiya R

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deregulation of insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) and focal adhesion kinase (FAK) signaling pathways plays an important role in cancer cell proliferation and metastasis. In pancreatic cancer cells, the crosstalk and compensatory mechanisms between these two pathways reduce the efficacy of the treatments t...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Zheng D,Golubovskaya V,Kurenova E,Wood C,Massoll NA,Ostrov D,Cance WG,Hochwald SN

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear factor kappa B (NFkappaB) is a central participant in the metastasis and chemoresistance of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, it is not fully understood to what extent NFkappaB contributes to induction of the metastasis-associated matrix metalloprotease-9 (MMP-9) gene and sensitivity to the commonly used chemo...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Fukuyama R,Ng KP,Cicek M,Kelleher C,Niculaita R,Casey G,Sizemore N

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In human lung cancers, alterations of both a dominant oncogene (ras) and a tumor suppressor gene (p53) have been identified. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis of mRNA was used to amplify the c-Ki-ras-2 and p53 genes from Syrian golden hamsters. The PCR products were confirmed by predicted-size analysis, probing...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Oreffo VI,Lin HW,Gumerlock PH,Kraegel SA,Witschi H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intratumoral hypoxia promotes the distant metastasis of cancer subclones. The clinical expression level of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) reflects the prognosis of a variety of cancers, especially breast cancer. Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors can target HIF-1α protein due to von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) protei...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Wei Z,Shan Y,Tao L,Liu Y,Zhu Z,Liu Z,Wu Y,Chen W,Wang A,Lu Y

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone cells are a prime target for the biological function of the fos/jun (activating protein-1 (AP-1)) transcription factor complex. Deregulated expression of c-fos or v-fos in bone cells induces tumorigenicity and the formation of non-metastatic osteosarcomas. In contrast, fos oncogenes transform fibroblasts to an in...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Rupp B,Lorenz U,Schmidt J,Werenskiold AK

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both ultraviolet irradiation and oxidation of DNA produce a variety of pyrimidine base damages. A human endonuclease recognizes such altered bases on these DNA substrates. This human endonuclease incises ultraviolet-irradiated DNA exclusively at sites of photochemically modified cytosines. The precise sites of incisio...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Gallagher PE,Weiss RB,Brent TP,Duker NJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite considerable knowledge of viral pathogenesis, the pathophysiological changes related to the multifactorial, multistep process of hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development remains unclear. Longitudinal metabolomics study can reveal biological process for disease progression. We ...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Huang BY,Tsai MR,Hsu JK,Lin CY,Lin CL,Hu JT,Huang YW,Liu CJ,Wu WJ,Wu CF,Sung FY,Chen PJ,Liang HJ,Lin SM,Yu MW

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the prognostic significance of the three most frequently amplified oncogenes in breast cancer (c-myc, int-2/FGF3, and c-erbB-2/neu) is still unclear, and as the amplification of these genes appears to be mutually exclusive, we investigated the prognostic significance of oncogene amplification per se by multivariate...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Champème MH,Bièche I,Hacène K,Lidereau R

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to cisplatin-based chemotherapy is responsible for the majority of deaths from head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). In this study, using genome-wide gene expression analysis to investigate potential molecular mediators of HNSCC chemoresistance, we identified SERPINB2, a known inhibitor of extracel...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Huang Z,Li H,Huang Q,Chen D,Han J,Wang L,Pan C,Chen W,House MG,Nephew KP,Guo Z

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is an embryonic program that is reactivated in cancer and regulates the invasion and metastasis of tumor cells. Zinc finger E-box binding homeobox 2 (ZEB2) induces EMT by upregulating matrix metalloproteinases (MMP), yet MMP genes lack ZEB2 binding motif in their promoters. Rece...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Yalim-Camci I,Balcik-Ercin P,Cetin M,Odabas G,Tokay N,Sayan AE,Yagci T

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia is a critical event in solid tumor development, invasion, and metastasis. Cellular adaptation to hypoxic microenvironment is essential for tumor progression and is largely mediated by hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) through coordinated regulation of hypoxia-responsive genes. In this study, we found that m...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Zhu S,Zhou Y,Wang L,Zhang J,Wu H,Xiong J,Zhang J,Tian Y,Wang C,Wu H

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sel-1-like (SEL1L) is a putative tumor suppressor gene that is significantly downregulated in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA). The mechanism of the downregulation is unclear. Here, we investigated whether aberrantly upregulated microRNAs (miRNAs) repressed the expression of SEL1L. From reported miRNA micr...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Liu Q,Chen J,Wang J,Amos C,Killary AM,Sen S,Wei C,Frazier ML

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have implicated a role for midkine (MK) in cancer progression. This is based upon its structural homology with pleiotrophin, an angiogenic growth factor, and its ability to enhance fibrinolytic activity of bovine endothelial cells. To investigate whether MK plays a role in breast cancer, we examined MK ...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Chen Y,McKenzie KE,Aldaz CM,Sukumar S

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that caffeine significantly inhibited epidermal growth factor (EGF)- and 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-induced cell transformation in the JB6 mouse epidermal cell line. The tumor promoter-induced cell transformation was also blocked by treatment with an adenosine A1 receptor antagonist, 8-phenylt...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Nomura M,Ichimatsu D,Moritani S,Koyama I,Dong Z,Yokogawa K,Miyamoto K

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenocarcinoma accounts for ∼40% of lung cancer, equating to ∼88 500 new patients in 2015, most of who will succumb to this disease, thus, the public health burden is evident. Unfortunately, few early biomarkers as well as effective therapies exist, hence the need for novel targets in lung cancer treatment. We previou...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Bauer AK,Velmurugan K,Xiong KN,Alexander CM,Xiong J,Brooks R

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA hypermethylation is associated with decreased expression of tumor suppressor genes. We previously observed decreased Fhit expression and Fhit promoter region hypermethylation in rodent tumors induced by various carcinogens, and noted that the 5' regulatory regions in the promoter, exon 1, and intron 1 were differe...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Guler G,Iliopoulos D,Han SY,Fong LY,Lubet RA,Grubbs CJ,Huebner K

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance (MDR) is one of the most important factors leading to chemotherapeutic failure in patients with breast cancer. The invasive/metastatic ability of MDR cells is strengthened compared with their parental cells. However, the mechanisms underlying MDR have not been fully elucidated. We found that CD44 ...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Cheng Y,Tao L,Xu J,Li Q,Yu J,Jin Y,Chen Q,Xu Z,Zou Q,Liu X

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work describes the use of the infant (4-wk-old) mouse as an animal model for the study of DNA damage-induced G(1) checkpoint response, changes in p53 protein levels, and multiple gene expression changes after DNA damage has been induced in the liver. Hepatocytes in the infant B6C3F1 mouse had a proliferati...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Reynolds R,Witherspoon S,Fox T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary prevention is a cost-efficient strategy to reduce the risk of human cancers. More than 85% breast cancers are sporadic and attributable to long-term exposure to environmental carcinogens through a multistep and multiyear disease process. We used our chronically induced cellular carcinogenesis model as a target...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Choudhary S,Sood S,Wang HC

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphisms in metabolic and DNA repair genes may alter protein function, consequently affecting patients' response to chemo/radiotherapy. We retrospectively assessed whether polymorphisms of glutathione-S-transferase genes GSTM1 (deletion), GSTT1 (deletion), GSTP1 (Ile105Val, rs1695), and DNA repair genes hOGG1 (Se...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Mahimkar MB,Samant TA,Kannan S,Tulsulkar J,Pai PS,Anantharaman D

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse benign keratinocyte cell line 308 was previously shown to have less AP-1 DNA binding and transactivation ability than its malignant variant 10Gy5. Because elevated AP-1 activity in 10Gy5 appears to be critical for its malignant phenotype, we were interested in examining the molecular mechanisms that regulate...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Joseloff E,Bowden GT

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DIXDC1 (Dishevelled-Axin domain containing 1) is a DIX (Dishevelled-Axin) domain-possessing protein that promotes colon cancer cell proliferation and increases the invasion and migration ability of non-small-cell lung cancer via the PI3K pathway. As a positive regulator of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway, the biological rol...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Tan C,Qiao F,Wei P,Chi Y,Wang W,Ni S,Wang Q,Chen T,Sheng W,Du X,Wang L

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of matrix metalloproteinase3 (MMP3) promoter in the development and progression of gastric cancer of whole stomach has never been investigated in any population. We conducted a hospital-based case-control study to explore the MMP3 SNPs and their haplotypes with the risk of gastri...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Dey S,Stalin S,Gupta A,Saha D,Kesh K,Swarnakar S

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusion between HeLa cells and normal human fibroblasts results in the suppression of tumorigenicity. Under prolonged culture conditions, rare tumorigenic segregants arise and have been shown to reexpress a cell surface antigen, p75, which is also present in the HeLa parent but not in the fibroblast parent or in the no...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Gross MM,Janiaud P,Stanbridge EJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apc mutations cause intestinal tumorigenesis through Tcf4 activation. However, direct techniques for studying Tcf4 activation in vivo are limited. Here, we describe the development of a Tcf4-GFP reporter mouse model for directly studying Tcf4 activation. We first developed a GFP reporter construct (Tcf4-GFP) and trans...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Boman B,Kopelovich L,Siracusa LD,Zhang T,Henderson K,Cofer Z,Buchberg AM,Fields JZ,Otevrel T

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Methoxyestradiol (2-ME), an endogenous metabolite of 17beta-estradiol, is present in human blood and urine. Here we show for the first time that 2-ME significantly inhibited the growth of normal prostate epithelial cells and androgen-dependent LNCaP and androgen-independent DU145 prostate cancer cells. This growth i...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Kumar AP,Garcia GE,Slaga TJ

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00