Molecular and immune targets for Merkel cell carcinoma therapy and prevention.

abstract：:Dishevelled-3 (Dvl-3) and p120-catenin (p120ctn) have abnormal expression in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), which is associated with poor prognosis. Dvl-3 upregulates p120ctn transcription in NSCLC cells, but the mechanism is unknown. Here we transiently transfected Dvl-3 cDNA to NSCLC cells. Dvl-3 transfection i...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Zhao H,Zhao Y,Jiang G,Zhang X,Zhang Y,Dong Q,Luan L,Papavassiliou P,Wang E,Wang E

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is a highly malignant neoplasm and represents the leading cause of cancer death in Chilean women. In order to determine the potential role of promoter methylation in gallbladder carcinogenesis, we investigated the frequency of this epigenetic mechanism by methylation-specific polymerase cha...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： García P,Manterola C,Araya JC,Villaseca M,Guzmán P,Sanhueza A,Thomas M,Alvarez H,Roa JC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pi-class glutathione S-transferase (GSTP1) actively protect cells from carcinogens and electrophilic compounds. Loss of GSTP1 expression via promoter hypermethylation is the most common epigenetic alteration observed in human prostate cancer. Silencing of GSTP1 can increase generation of reactive oxygen species (R...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Kanwal R,Pandey M,Bhaskaran N,Maclennan GT,Fu P,Ponsky LE,Gupta S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies show that elevated insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) levels are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer; however, mechanisms through which IGF-1 promotes mammary tumorigenesis in vivo have not been fully elucidated. To assess the possible involvement of COX-2 signaling in the pro-tumorigenic effe...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Tian J,Lambertz I,Berton TR,Rundhaug JE,Kiguchi K,Shirley SH,Digiovanni J,Conti CJ,Fischer SM,Fuchs-Young R

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angelica gigas Nakai (AGN) root ethanol extract exerts anti-cancer activity in several allograft and xenograft models. Here we examined its chemopreventive efficacy through gavage administration against primary carcinogenesis in the transgenic adenocarcinoma of mouse prostate (TRAMP) model. Male C57BL/6 TRAMP mice and...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Zhang J,Wang L,Zhang Y,Li L,Tang S,Xing C,Kim SH,Jiang C,Lü J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer (PCa) patients' mortality is mainly attributed to complications caused by metastasis of the tumor cells to organs critical for survival, such as bone. We hypothesized that PCa cell-bone interactions would promote paracrine signaling. A panel of PCa cell lines were cocultured with hydroxyapatite ([HA]; ...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Henderson VM,Hawsawi O,Burton LJ,Campbell T,Trice K,Dougan J,Howard SM,Odero-Marah VA

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:Increasing evidence from recent research suggests a connection between cancer and a deranged equilibrium of histone acetylation, which is maintained by two competing enzymatic activities, histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs). It is our hypothesis that a significant proportion of leukemias...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Mahlknecht U,Ottmann OG,Hoelzer D

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, bone marrow (BM) failure syndromes, both constitutional and acquired, predispose to myeloid malignancies. We have modeled acquired immune aplastic anemia, the paradigmatic disease of these syndromes, in the mouse by infusing lymph node cells from specific pathogen-free (SPF) CD45.1 congenic C57BL/6 (B6) don...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Li J,Dubois W,Thovarai V,Wu Z,Feng X,Peat T,Zhang S,Sen SK,Trinchieri G,Chen J,Mock BA,Young NS

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge about the role of calcium-regulated pathways in cancer cell growth and differentiation could be useful for the development of new therapeutic approaches to diminish its mortality. The ATP2A genes encode for SERCA pumps, which modulate cytosolic Ca2+ concentration, regulating various cellular processes in...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Meneses-Morales I,Izquierdo-Torres E,Flores-Peredo L,Rodríguez G,Hernández-Oliveras A,Zarain-Herzberg Á

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:Potassium chromate induced the formation of DNA-protein complexes in cultured Chinese hamster ovary cells. The DNA-protein complexes were isolated by ultracentrifugal sedimentation in the presence of 2% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and 5 M urea. Two-dimensional SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis of the ch...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Miller CA 3rd,Costa M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrin alpha6beta4 is altered in many neoplastic cells, but no data exist to show this happens in esophageal neoplasms. To examine the expression of this integrin in rat esophageal tumorigenesis induced by N-nitrosomethylbenzylamine (NMBA), (alpha6 and beta4 expression was evaluated in normal esophageal epithelium, ...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Khare L,Sabourin CL,DeYoung BR,Wagner BA,Stoner GD

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of neoplastic transformation by the combination of SV40 large T antigen (LT), SV40 small T antigen (ST), oncogenic Ras, and human telomerase reverse trasncriptase subunit (hTERT) has become established and replicated in primary human fibroblasts, however, there is no report on human hepatocytes. Here we use ce...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Sun B,Chen M,Hawks C,Hornsby PJ,Wang X

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotoxicity tests indicate methanol (MeOH) is not mutagenic, but a rodent study has suggested carcinogenic potential, which could result from free radical-initiated oxidative DNA damage. To investigate this possibility we treated male CD-1 mice, New Zealand white rabbits, and cynomolgus monkeys with MeOH (2.0 g/kg ip...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： McCallum GP,Siu M,Ondovcik SL,Sweeting JN,Wells PG

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP) is the most abundant mutagenic heterocyclic amine in cooked foods. Two mouse tumor cell lines, BMT11 and FM3A, were exposed to its proximate form, 2-hydroxyamino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (N-OH-PhIP). Fifty-six subclones of BMT11 and 39 subclones of ...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Kitazawa T,Kominami R,Tanaka R,Wakabayashi K,Nagao M

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (IQ) and 2-amino-3,8-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoxaline (MelQx) are carcinogens found in cooked meats that form DNA adducts upon metabolic activation. Purified DNA from Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells was reacted in vitro with the active metabolites N-acetoxy-IQ or N-acetoxy-Me...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Nouso K,Bohr VA,Schut HA,Snyderwine EG

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serially transplantable rat mammary tumor (RMT) cells are not dependent on exogenous epidermal growth factor (EGF) and insulin-like growth factor-I for continuous growth in serum-free medium. Previously, we found that conditioned medium obtained from these cells contained EGF-like mitogenic activity and stimulated tyr...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Ethier SP,Langton BC,Dilts CA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regions of genomic DNA containing repetitive nucleotide sequences can adopt a number of different structures in addition to the canonical B-DNA form: many of these non-B DNA structures are causative factors in genetic instability and human disease. Although chromosomal DNA replication through such repetitive sequences...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Wang G,Vasquez KM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there are extensive studies on the genetics of bladder cancer, several questions remain unanswered. One of the pathways which are altered in bladder cancer is the mTOR signaling pathway. In the present study, we analyzed the expression of Rheb gene and genetic alterations in the LKB1 gene which are the key co...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Tigli H,Seven D,Tunc M,Sanli O,Basaran S,Ulutin T,Buyru N

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To perform a comprehensive genomic analysis of colorectal cancer (CRC) tumor to detect genetic variants and identify novel resistant mutations associated with cetuximab-resistance in CRC patients. A retrospective study was performed using whole exome sequencing (WES) to identify common genetic factors from 22 cetuxima...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Jing C,Wang T,Ma R,Cao H,Wang Z,Liu S,Chen D,Zhang J,Wu Y,Zhang Y,Wu J,Feng J

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastoma, the most common extracranial solid tumor in children, arises from precursors of the sympathetic nervous system. Neuroblastoma cell lines are responsive to the differentiation agent retinoic acid, which induces its effects by altering transcription rates of specific target genes. We identified autotaxin ...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Dufner-Beattie J,Lemons RS,Thorburn A

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that the A allele of the ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) gene is a genetic risk factor for prostate cancer. ODC is a target gene of the highly polymorphic androgen receptor (AR) gene, short alleles of which have been associated in some studies with increased prostate cancer risk. We determined O...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： O'Brien TG,Guo Y,Visvanathan K,Sciulli J,McLaine M,Helzlsouer KJ,Watkins-Bruner D

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：:There is an unmet need to develop new agents or strategies against therapy resistant pancreatic cancer (PanCA). Recent studies from our laboratory showed that STAT3 negatively regulates NF-κB and that inhibition of this crosstalk using Nexrutine® (Nx) reduces transcriptional activity of COX-2. Inhibition of these mole...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Gong J,Muñoz AR,Pingali S,Payton-Stewart F,Chan DE,Freeman JW,Ghosh R,Kumar AP

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a cellular energy sensor that is conserved in eukaryotes. Although AMPK is traditionally thought to play a major role in the regulation of cellular lipid and protein metabolism, recent discoveries reveal that AMPK inhibits mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling and connec...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Tong X,Smith KA,Pelling JC

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promoter hypermethylation is gaining strength as one of the main mechanisms through which tumor suppressor genes are silenced during tumor progression. Three tumor suppressor genes are frequently found methylated in their promoter, in concordance with absence of expression, RASSF1A, SLIT2, and WIF1. In addition, a pre...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Alvarez C,Tapia T,Cornejo V,Fernandez W,Muñoz A,Camus M,Alvarez M,Devoto L,Carvallo P

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is a prerequisite for progression of cancers. The number of genes linked to angiogenesis suggests the existence of complex gene-networks, which remain to be elucidated. To identify angiogenesis genes deregulated in carcinomas, we performed a meta-profiling analysis of published gene expression microarray ...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Anders M,Fehlker M,Wang Q,Wissmann C,Pilarsky C,Kemmner W,Höcker M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver tumor initiating cells (TICs), a small subset cells in tumor bulk, are responsible for liver tumor initiation, metastasis, and relapse. However, the regulatory mechanism of liver TICs remains largely unknown. Here we found a long noncoding RNA lncAPC, locating near from APC locus, was highly expressed in liver c...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Fu X,Lin J,Qin F,Yang Z,Ding Y,Zhang Y,Han L,Zhu X,Zhang Q

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer cells mainly rely on glycolysis for energetic needs, and mitochondrial ATP production is almost inactive. However, cancer cells require the integrity of mitochondrial functions for their survival, such as the maintenance of the internal membrane potential gradient (DeltaPsim). It thus may be predicted that Delt...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Loiseau D,Morvan D,Chevrollier A,Demidem A,Douay O,Reynier P,Stepien G

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00