At the crossroads of SUMO and NF-kappaB.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Taurine upregulated gene1 (TUG1) as a 7.1-kb lncRNA, has been shown to play an oncogenic role in various cancers. However, the biological functions of lncRNA TUG1 in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) remain unknown. The aim of this study is to explore the roles of TUG1 in cell growth and chemoresistance of SCLC ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Niu Y,Ma F,Huang W,Fang S,Li M,Wei T,Guo L

更新日期：2017-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Methionine aminopeptidase 2 (MetAP2) is a bifunctional protein that plays a critical role in the regulation of post-translational processing and protein synthesis. MetAP2 is overexpressed in human colon cancer. In this report we screened various MetAP2 inhibitors and treated HT29 cells with various concentrations of c...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Selvakumar P,Lakshmikuttyamma A,Das U,Pati HN,Dimmock JR,Sharma RK

更新日期：2009-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sema4D, also known as CD100, is a protein belonging to class IV semaphorin. Its physiologic roles in the immune and nervous systems have been extensively explored. However, the roles of Sema4D have extended beyond these traditionally studied territories. Via interaction with its high affinity receptor Plexin-B1, Sema4...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Ch'ng ES,Kumanogoh A

更新日期：2010-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most lethal malignant diseases worldwide. It is refractory to conventional treatments, and consequently has a documented 5-year survival rate as low as 7%. Increasing evidence indicates that activated pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs), one of the stromal components ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Fu Y,Liu S,Zeng S,Shen H

更新日期：2018-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer precursor/progenitor cells may initiate and sustain the growth of tumors, but evidence for their existence in human disease is indirect, relying on their in vitro properties and animal models. More directly, specific elimination of these rare cells from cancer patients should produce a delayed but progressive d...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Foster AE,Okur FV,Biagi E,Lu A,Dotti G,Yvon E,Savoldo B,Carrum G,Andreeff M,Goodell MA,Heslop HE,Brenner MK

更新日期：2009-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are emerging as central players in shaping the biology of the Tumor Microenvironment (TME). They do so both by modulating their expression levels within the different cells of the TME and by being shuttled among different cell populations within exosomes and other extracellular vesicles. This review...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Frediani JN,Fabbri M

更新日期：2016-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ambiguity in malignant transformation of glioma has made prognostic diagnosis very challenging. Tumor malignant transformation is closely correlated with specific alterations of the metabolic profile. Exploration of the underlying metabolic alterations in glioma cells of different malignant degree is therefo...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Shao W,Gu J,Huang C,Liu D,Huang H,Huang Z,Lin Z,Yang W,Liu K,Lin D,Ji T

更新日期：2014-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antisense (AS) induced down-regulation of uPAR in ACCS adenoid-cyctic carcinoma cells decreased the cellular adhesion and invasion on various extracellular matrices. Additionally, ACCS-AS cells showed an increased EGFR expression and other behavioral similarities to NA-SCC, a typical highly proliferative but...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Abu-Ali S,Fotovati A,Shirasuna K

更新日期：2008-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epigenetic regulators play a critical role in the maintenance of specific chromatin domains in an active or repressed state. Disruption of epigenetic regulatory mechanisms is widespread in cancer cells and largely contributes to the transformation process through active repression of tumor suppressor genes. ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Yeh CH,Bai XT,Moles R,Ratner L,Waldmann TA,Watanabe T,Nicot C

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amplifications at 6p22.3 are prevalent in advanced stage bladder cancer (TCC). Previous studies have identified SOX4, CDKAL, and E2F3 as targets of this amplification and therefore potential oncogenes, but the more telomeric DEK gene too has been reported as overexpressed and amplified. We have therefore inv...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Wu Q,Hoffmann MJ,Hartmann FH,Schulz WA

更新日期：2005-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many human cancer cells express filamin A (FLNA), an actin-binding structural protein that interacts with a diverse set of cell signaling proteins, but little is known about the biological importance of FLNA in tumor development. FLNA is also expressed in endothelial cells, which may be important for tumor a...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Nallapalli RK,Ibrahim MX,Zhou AX,Bandaru S,Sunkara SN,Redfors B,Pazooki D,Zhang Y,Borén J,Cao Y,Bergo MO,Akyürek LM

更新日期：2012-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As an important means of communication, exosomes play an important role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS:Bioinformatics analysis, dual-luciferase reporter assays, methylation-specific quantitative PCR, and ChIP-PCR analysis were used to gain insight into the underlying mechanism...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Cao LQ,Yang XW,Chen YB,Zhang DW,Jiang XF,Xue P

更新日期：2019-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Because circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) have drawn a great deal of attention as promising novel cancer diagnostics and prognostic biomarkers, we sought to identify serum miRNAs significantly associated with outcome in glioblastoma patients. To do this, we performed global miRNA profiling in serum samples from 106 prima...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Zhao H,Shen J,Hodges TR,Song R,Fuller GN,Heimberger AB

更新日期：2017-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing evidence supports the role of small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) as master gene regulators at the epigenetic modification level. However, the underlying mechanism of these functional ncRNAs in colorectal cancer (CRC) has not been well investigated. METHODS:The dysre...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Wu H,Qin W,Lu S,Wang X,Zhang J,Sun T,Hu X,Li Y,Chen Q,Wang Y,Zhao H,Piao H,Zhang R,Wei M

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sigma-2 receptors are over-expressed in proliferating cancer cells, making an attractive target for the targeted treatment of pancreatic cancer. In this study, we investigated the role of the novel sigma-2 receptor ligand SW43 to induce apoptosis and augment standard chemotherapy. RESULTS:The binding affini...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Hornick JR,Xu J,Vangveravong S,Tu Z,Mitchem JB,Spitzer D,Goedegebuure P,Mach RH,Hawkins WG

更新日期：2010-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteopontin (OPN) has been shown to play many roles in the progression of cancer. We have recently demonstrated the activation of Akt by OPN. Integrin-linked kinase and PI3-kinase are integral proteins in OPN/AKT pathway in PC3 cells. To investigate the role of the extracellular receptors in OPN signaling, w...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Robertson BW,Bonsal L,Chellaiah MA

更新日期：2010-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) is a member of the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily and is highly expressed in many human tumors including breast cancer. PPARgamma has been identified as a potential target for breast cancer therapy based on the fact that its activation by syn...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Zaytseva YY,Wang X,Southard RC,Wallis NK,Kilgore MW

更新日期：2008-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CD95 is a death receptor controlling not only apoptotic pathways but also activating mechanisms promoting tumor growth. During the acquisition of chemoresistance to oxaliplatin there is a progressive loss of CD95 expression in colon cancer cells and a decreased ability of this receptor to induce cell death. ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Ametller E,García-Recio S,Costamagna D,Mayordomo C,Fernández-Nogueira P,Carbó N,Pastor-Arroyo EM,Gascón P,Almendro V

更新日期：2010-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive malignant primary tumor in the central nervous system. One of the most widely used chemotherapeutic drugs for GBM is temozolomide, which is a DNA-alkylating agent and its efficacy is dependent on MGMT methylation status. Little progress in improving the p...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Zhao HF,Wang J,Shao W,Wu CP,Chen ZP,To ST,Li WP

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The influence of natural regulatory T cells (nTregs) on the patients with colon cancer is unclear. Demethylated status of the Treg-specific demethylated region (TSDR) of the FOXP3 gene was reported to be a potential biomarker for the identification of nTregs. METHODS:The demethylation rate of the TSDR (TSDR...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Zhuo C,Li Z,Xu Y,Wang Y,Li Q,Peng J,Zheng H,Wu P,Li B,Cai S

更新日期：2014-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High expression of the long non-coding RNA nuclear-enriched abundant transcript 1 (NEAT1) in whole blood has been reported in colorectal cancer patients; however, its' clinical significance and origin are unclear. We evaluated the diagnostic and prognostic value, and origin of whole blood NEAT1 in colorectal...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Wu Y,Yang L,Zhao J,Li C,Nie J,Liu F,Zhuo C,Zheng Y,Li B,Wang Z,Xu Y

更新日期：2015-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Salivary Adenoid cystic carcinoma (SACC) patients with local invasion and lung metastasis are often resistant to conventional therapy such as operation, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. To explore the underling mechanisms, we studied the roles of miRNA in regulating invasiveness of SACC cells. METHODS:MicroRN...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Sun L,Liu B,Lin Z,Yao Y,Chen Y,Li Y,Chen J,Yu D,Tang Z,Wang B,Zeng S,Fan S,Wang Y,Li Y,Song E,Li J

更新日期：2015-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aberrant accumulation of beta-catenin plays an important role in a variety of human neoplasms. We recently reported accumulation of beta-catenin in parathyroid adenomas from patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT). In CTNNB1 exon 3, we detected a stabilizing mutation (S37A) in 3 out of 20 analyzed a...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Björklund P,Lindberg D,Akerström G,Westin G

更新日期：2008-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies and the major cause of cancer-related death in women. Although the importance of PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) in cancer has been increasingly recognized, few studies have been explored the functional mechanism of piRNAs in breast cancer development and p...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Tan L,Mai D,Zhang B,Jiang X,Zhang J,Bai R,Ye Y,Li M,Pan L,Su J,Zheng Y,Liu Z,Zuo Z,Zhao Q,Li X,Huang X,Yang J,Tan W,Zheng J,Lin D

更新日期：2019-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although chemotherapy represents a predominant anti-cancer therapeutic modality, drug treatment efficacy is often limited due to the development of resistant tumor cells. The pregnane X receptor (PXR) affects chemotherapeutic effects by regulating targets involved in drug metabolism and transportation, but t...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Dong Y,Wang Z,Xie GF,Li C,Zuo WW,Meng G,Xu CP,Li JJ

更新日期：2017-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancers represent approximately two-thirds of all breast cancers and have a sustained risk of late disease recurrence. Cyclin-dependent kinase 4 and 6 (CDK4/6) inhibitors have shown significant efficacy in ER+ breast cancer. However, their effects are still limited by ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Jin X,Ge LP,Li DQ,Shao ZM,Di GH,Xu XE,Jiang YZ

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lung cancer in nonsmokers tends to be driven by a single somatic mutation or a gene fusion. KIF5B-RET fusion is an oncogene identified in non-small cell lung cancers. In this study, we verified the oncogenic activity of KIF5B-RET fusion and investigated how KIF5B-RET activates the specific signaling pathways...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Qian Y,Chai S,Liang Z,Wang Y,Zhou Y,Xu X,Zhang C,Zhang M,Si J,Huang F,Huang Z,Hong W,Wang K

更新日期：2014-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (ALCL), are forms of malignant lymphoma defined by unique morphologic, immunophenotypic, genotypic, and clinical characteristics, but both overexpress CD30. We used sub-megabase resolution tiling (SMRT) array-based comparative genomic hybridization to ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Fadlelmola FM,Zhou M,de Leeuw RJ,Dosanjh NS,Harmer K,Huntsman D,Lam WL,Banerjee D

更新日期：2008-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zebrafish have been used as a vertebrate model to study human cancers such as melanoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, liver cancer, and leukemia as well as for high-throughput screening of small molecules of therapeutic value. However, they are just emerging as a model for human brain tumors, which are among the most de...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Ju B,Chen W,Orr BA,Spitsbergen JM,Jia S,Eden CJ,Henson HE,Taylor MR

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interferon Regulatory Factor 5 is a transcription factor that regulates the expression of genes involved in the response to viral infection and in the stimulation of the immune system. Moreover, multiple studies have demonstrated that it negatively regulates cell growth and oncogenesis, favoring cell differe...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Massimino M,Vigneri P,Fallica M,Fidilio A,Aloisi A,Frasca F,Manzella L

更新日期：2012-04-16 00:00:00