abstract：:Rhabdomyosarcoma is a soft-tissue sarcoma with molecular and cellular features of developing skeletal muscle. Rhabdomyosarcoma has two major histologic subtypes, embryonal and alveolar, each with distinct clinical, molecular, and genetic features. Genomic analysis shows that embryonal tumors have more structural and c...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Chen X,Stewart E,Shelat AA,Qu C,Bahrami A,Hatley M,Wu G,Bradley C,McEvoy J,Pappo A,Spunt S,Valentine MB,Valentine V,Krafcik F,Lang WH,Wierdl M,Tsurkan L,Tolleman V,Federico SM,Morton C,Lu C,Ding L,Easton J,R

更新日期：2013-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Two recurrent mutations, K27M and G34R/V, within histone variant H3.3 were recently identified in ∼50% of pHGGs. Both mutations define clinically and biologically distinct subgroups of pHGGs. Here, we provide further insight about the dominant-negative effect of K27M mutant H3.3, leading to a global reduction of the r...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Bender S,Tang Y,Lindroth AM,Hovestadt V,Jones DT,Kool M,Zapatka M,Northcott PA,Sturm D,Wang W,Radlwimmer B,Højfeldt JW,Truffaux N,Castel D,Schubert S,Ryzhova M,Seker-Cin H,Gronych J,Johann PD,Stark S,Meyer J,Mil

更新日期：2013-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A large body of evidence indicates that chronic inflammation is one of several key risk factors for cancer initiation, progression, and metastasis. However, the underlying mechanisms responsible for the contribution of inflammation and inflammatory mediators to cancer remain elusive. Here, we present genetic evidence ...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Katoh H,Wang D,Daikoku T,Sun H,Dey SK,Dubois RN

更新日期：2013-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:EGFRvIII, a frequently occurring mutation in primary glioblastoma, results in a protein product that cannot bind ligand, but signals constitutively. Deducing how EGFRvIII causes transformation has been difficult because of autocrine and paracrine loops triggered by EGFRvIII alone or in heterodimers with wild-type EGFR...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Fan QW,Cheng CK,Gustafson WC,Charron E,Zipper P,Wong RA,Chen J,Lau J,Knobbe-Thomsen C,Weller M,Jura N,Reifenberger G,Shokat KM,Weiss WA

更新日期：2013-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Monosomy 7 and interstitial deletion of 7q (-7/7q-) are well-recognized nonrandom chromosomal abnormalities frequently found among patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDSs) and myeloid leukemias. We previously identified candidate myeloid tumor suppressor genes (SAMD9, SAMD9-like = SAMD9L, and Miki) in the 7q21.3...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Nagamachi A,Matsui H,Asou H,Ozaki Y,Aki D,Kanai A,Takubo K,Suda T,Nakamura T,Wolff L,Honda H,Inaba T

更新日期：2013-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the cytokines linked to inflammation-associated cancer, interleukin (IL)-6 drives many of the cancer "hallmarks" through downstream activation of the gp130/STAT3 signaling pathway. However, we show that the related cytokine IL-11 has a stronger correlation with elevated STAT3 activation in human gastrointestinal...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Putoczki TL,Thiem S,Loving A,Busuttil RA,Wilson NJ,Ziegler PK,Nguyen PM,Preaudet A,Farid R,Edwards KM,Boglev Y,Luwor RB,Jarnicki A,Horst D,Boussioutas A,Heath JK,Sieber OM,Pleines I,Kile BT,Nash A,Greten FR,McKe

更新日期：2013-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for advanced prostate cancer inexorably leads to resistance, and clinically useful biomarkers are lacking. The value of genetically engineered mice for coclinical studies is clearly demonstrated in a recent publication that reveals XAF1, XIAP, and SRD5A1 as novel predictive biomarker...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Karantanos T,Thompson TC

更新日期：2013-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic resistance in melanoma and other cancers arises via irreversible genetic, and dynamic phenotypic, heterogeneity. Here, we use directed phenotype switching in melanoma to sensitize melanoma cells to lineage-specific therapy. We show that methotrexate (MTX) induces microphthalmia-associated transcription fac...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Sáez-Ayala M,Montenegro MF,Sánchez-Del-Campo L,Fernández-Pérez MP,Chazarra S,Freter R,Middleton M,Piñero-Madrona A,Cabezas-Herrera J,Goding CR,Rodríguez-López JN

更新日期：2013-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease and can be classified based on gene expression profiles that reflect distinct epithelial subtypes. We identify prostate-derived ETS factor (PDEF) as a mediator of mammary luminal epithelial lineage-specific gene expression and as a factor required for tumorigenesis in a subset ...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Buchwalter G,Hickey MM,Cromer A,Selfors LM,Gunawardane RN,Frishman J,Jeselsohn R,Lim E,Chi D,Fu X,Schiff R,Brown M,Brugge JS

更新日期：2013-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:ERK pathway activation in cells expressing wild-type BRAF is a well-reported, clinically-relevant adverse effect of the otherwise impressive response of BRAF(V600E)-mutated melanomas to RAF inhibitors. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Holderfield and colleagues show that RAF autoinhibition underpins this paradox, further...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Hey F,Pritchard C

更新日期：2013-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The EZH2 histone methyltransferase is highly expressed in germinal center (GC) B cells and targeted by somatic mutations in B cell lymphomas. Here, we find that EZH2 deletion or pharmacologic inhibition suppresses GC formation and functions. EZH2 represses proliferation checkpoint genes and helps establish bivalent ch...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Béguelin W,Popovic R,Teater M,Jiang Y,Bunting KL,Rosen M,Shen H,Yang SN,Wang L,Ezponda T,Martinez-Garcia E,Zhang H,Zheng Y,Verma SK,McCabe MT,Ott HM,Van Aller GS,Kruger RG,Liu Y,McHugh CF,Scott DW,Chung YR,Kel

更新日期：2013-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Adoptively transferred T cells can reject large established tumors, but recurrence due to escape variants frequently occurs. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Engels et al. demonstrate that the affinity of the target peptide to the MHC molecule determines whether large tumors will relapse following adoptive T cell therapy...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Kammertoens T,Blankenstein T

更新日期：2013-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer cells reprogram their metabolism using different strategies to meet energy and anabolic demands to maintain growth and survival. Understanding the molecular and genetic determinants of these metabolic programs is critical to successfully exploit them for therapy. Here, we report that the oncogenic melanocyte li...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Vazquez F,Lim JH,Chim H,Bhalla K,Girnun G,Pierce K,Clish CB,Granter SR,Widlund HR,Spiegelman BM,Puigserver P

更新日期：2013-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Activating mutations in BRAF are the most common genetic alterations in melanoma. Inhibition of BRAF by small molecules leads to cell-cycle arrest and apoptosis. We show here that BRAF inhibition also induces an oxidative phosphorylation gene program, mitochondrial biogenesis, and the increased expression of the mitoc...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Haq R,Shoag J,Andreu-Perez P,Yokoyama S,Edelman H,Rowe GC,Frederick DT,Hurley AD,Nellore A,Kung AL,Wargo JA,Song JS,Fisher DE,Arany Z,Widlund HR

更新日期：2013-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms regulating leukemia-initiating cell (LIC) function are of important clinical significance. We use chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) as a model of LIC-dependent malignancy and identify the interaction between the ubiquitin ligase Fbw7 and its substrate c-Myc as a regulator of LIC homeostasis. ...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Reavie L,Buckley SM,Loizou E,Takeishi S,Aranda-Orgilles B,Ndiaye-Lobry D,Abdel-Wahab O,Ibrahim S,Nakayama KI,Aifantis I

更新日期：2013-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome rearrangements in B lymphocytes can be initiated by AID-associated double strand breaks (DSBs), with others arising by unclear mechanisms. A recent study by Barlow and colleagues in Cell reports on genomic regions, termed early replicating fragile sites, that may explain many AID-independent DSBs and create...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Glover TW,Wilson TE

更新日期：2013-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of p53 is considered to allow progression of colorectal tumors from the adenoma to the carcinoma stage. Using mice with an intestinal epithelial cell (IEC)-specific p53 deletion, we demonstrate that loss of p53 alone is insufficient to initiate intestinal tumorigenesis but markedly enhances carcinogen-induced tum...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Schwitalla S,Ziegler PK,Horst D,Becker V,Kerle I,Begus-Nahrmann Y,Lechel A,Rudolph KL,Langer R,Slotta-Huspenina J,Bader FG,Prazeres da Costa O,Neurath MF,Meining A,Kirchner T,Greten FR

更新日期：2013-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Using sequential gene expression profiling (GEP) samples, we defined a major functional group related to drug resistance that contains chromosomal instability (CIN) genes. One CIN gene in particular, NEK2, was highly correlated with drug resistance, rapid relapse, and poor outcome in multiple cancers. Overexpressing N...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Zhou W,Yang Y,Xia J,Wang H,Salama ME,Xiong W,Xu H,Shetty S,Chen T,Zeng Z,Shi L,Zangari M,Miles R,Bearss D,Tricot G,Zhan F

更新日期：2013-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive resistance to PI3K-mTOR inhibitors potentially limits the clinical antitumor activities of these agents. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Britschgi and coworkers show that certain tumors acquire resistance to PI3K-mTOR inhibitors through activation of a JAK2-dependent pathway, leading to interleukin-8 secretion....

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Abraham RT

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Cancer Cell, Gruber et al. report that a significant proportion of children with acute megakaryoblastic leukemia acquire a translocation that confers enhanced BMP signaling and promotes self-renewal of hematopoietic progenitors. This study presents novel therapeutic targets that may lead to improved t...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Crispino JD,Le Beau MM

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the mutation spectrum in non-Down syndrome acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (non-DS-AMKL), we performed transcriptome sequencing on diagnostic blasts from 14 pediatric patients and validated our findings in a recurrency/validation cohort consisting of 34 pediatric and 28 adult AMKL samples. Our analysis ident...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Gruber TA,Larson Gedman A,Zhang J,Koss CS,Marada S,Ta HQ,Chen SC,Su X,Ogden SK,Dang J,Wu G,Gupta V,Andersson AK,Pounds S,Shi L,Easton J,Barbato MI,Mulder HL,Manne J,Wang J,Rusch M,Ranade S,Ganti R,Parker M,

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Cancer Cell, Sturm et al. report that global DNA methylation patterns in glioblastoma multiforme divide adult and pediatric tumors into subgroups that have characteristic DNA mutations, mRNA profiles, and most importantly, different clinical behaviors. These findings suggest novel opportunities for th...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Raabe EH,Eberhart CG

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the transcriptional and epigenetic repression of miR-29 by MYC, HDAC3, and EZH2 in mantle cell lymphoma and other MYC-associated lymphomas. We demonstrate that miR-29 is repressed by MYC through a corepressor complex with HDAC3 and EZH2. MYC contributes to EZH2 upregulation via repression of the EZH2 t...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Zhang X,Zhao X,Fiskus W,Lin J,Lwin T,Rao R,Zhang Y,Chan JC,Fu K,Marquez VE,Chen-Kiang S,Moscinski LC,Seto E,Dalton WS,Wright KL,Sotomayor E,Bhalla K,Tao J

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging strategies in cancer therapeutics link the genomic mutational and proteomic landscape, allowing intelligent reasoning on target selection. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Piccinin and colleagues use this approach to demonstrate that the mesenchymal protein Twist1 inhibits p53, providing a novel target for react...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Hupp TR,Hayward RL,Vojtesek B

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell polarization is crucial during development and tissue homeostasis and is regulated by conserved proteins of the Scribble, Crumbs, and Par complexes. In mouse skin tumorigenesis, Par3 deficiency results in reduced papilloma formation and growth. Par3 mediates its tumor-promoting activity through regulation of grow...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Iden S,van Riel WE,Schäfer R,Song JY,Hirose T,Ohno S,Collard JG

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeobox domain-containing transcription factors are important regulators of hematopoiesis. Here, we report that increased levels of nonclustered H2.0-like homeobox (HLX) lead to loss of functional hematopoietic stem cells and formation of aberrant progenitors with unlimited serial clonogenicity and blocked differenti...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Kawahara M,Pandolfi A,Bartholdy B,Barreyro L,Will B,Roth M,Okoye-Okafor UC,Todorova TI,Figueroa ME,Melnick A,Mitsiades CS,Steidl U

更新日期：2012-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The proapoptotic death receptor DR5 has been studied extensively in cancer cells, but its action in the tumor microenvironment is not well defined. Here, we uncover a role for DR5 signaling in tumor endothelial cells (ECs). We detected DR5 expression in ECs within tumors but not normal tissues. Treatment of tumor-bear...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Wilson NS,Yang A,Yang B,Couto S,Stern H,Gogineni A,Pitti R,Marsters S,Weimer RM,Singh M,Ashkenazi A

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor cylindromatosis (CYLD) inhibits the NFκB and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activation pathways by deubiquitinating upstream regulatory factors. Here we show that liver-specific disruption of CYLD triggers hepatocyte cell death in the periportal area via spontaneous and chronic activation...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Nikolaou K,Tsagaratou A,Eftychi C,Kollias G,Mosialos G,Talianidis I

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent issue of Cell, Kumar and colleagues uncovered a synthetic lethal interaction between oncogenic KRAS and the transcription factor GATA2 in non-small cell lung carcinoma. Pharmacological inhibition of GATA2-mediated pathways with bortezomib and fasudil results in dramatic tumor inhibition. These observations...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Barbacid M

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the MLL-ENL-ERtm oncogene initiates aberrant proliferation of myeloid progenitors. Here, we show induction of a fail-safe mechanism mediated by the DNA damage response (DDR) machinery that results in activation of the ATR/ATM-Chk1/Chk2-p53/p21(CIP1) checkpoint and cellular senescence at early stages of c...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Takacova S,Slany R,Bartkova J,Stranecky V,Dolezel P,Luzna P,Bartek J,Divoky V

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a mouse model of human MLL-AF9 leukemia, we identified the lysine-specific demethylase KDM1A (LSD1 or AOF2) as an essential regulator of leukemia stem cell (LSC) potential. KDM1A acts at genomic loci bound by MLL-AF9 to sustain expression of the associated oncogenic program, thus preventing differentiation and a...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Harris WJ,Huang X,Lynch JT,Spencer GJ,Hitchin JR,Li Y,Ciceri F,Blaser JG,Greystoke BF,Jordan AM,Miller CJ,Ogilvie DJ,Somervaille TC

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent genomic analyses of pediatric glioblastoma, a poorly understood tumor with dismal outcome, have identified mutations in histone H3 variants that affect critical amino acids in the tail. The findings extend discoveries of chromatin regulator inactivation and gain-of-function mutations by documenting alteration o...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Rheinbay E,Louis DN,Bernstein BE,Suvà ML

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common malignant brain tumor in children. Patients whose tumors exhibit overexpression or amplification of the MYC oncogene (c-MYC) usually have an extremely poor prognosis, but there are no animal models of this subtype of the disease. Here, we show that cerebellar stem cells expressi...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Pei Y,Moore CE,Wang J,Tewari AK,Eroshkin A,Cho YJ,Witt H,Korshunov A,Read TA,Sun JL,Schmitt EM,Miller CR,Buckley AF,McLendon RE,Westbrook TF,Northcott PA,Taylor MD,Pfister SM,Febbo PG,Wechsler-Reya RJ

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Current strategies combining anti-angiogenic drugs with chemotherapy provide clinical benefit in cancer patients. It is assumed that anti-angiogenic drugs, such as bevacizumab, transiently normalize abnormal tumor vasculature and contribute to improved delivery of subsequent chemotherapy. To investigate this concept, ...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Van der Veldt AA,Lubberink M,Bahce I,Walraven M,de Boer MP,Greuter HN,Hendrikse NH,Eriksson J,Windhorst AD,Postmus PE,Verheul HM,Serné EH,Lammertsma AA,Smit EF

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that imatinib, nilotinib, and dasatinib possess weak off-target activity against RAF and, therefore, drive paradoxical activation of BRAF and CRAF in a RAS-dependent manner. Critically, because RAS is activated by BCR-ABL, in drug-resistant chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) cells, RAS activity persists in the pre...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Packer LM,Rana S,Hayward R,O'Hare T,Eide CA,Rebocho A,Heidorn S,Zabriskie MS,Niculescu-Duvaz I,Druker BJ,Springer C,Marais R

更新日期：2011-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant melanoma is characterized by frequent metastasis, however, specific changes that regulate this process have not been clearly delineated. Although it is well known that Wnt signaling is frequently dysregulated in melanoma, the functional implications of this observation are unclear. By modulating β-catenin le...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Damsky WE,Curley DP,Santhanakrishnan M,Rosenbaum LE,Platt JT,Gould Rothberg BE,Taketo MM,Dankort D,Rimm DL,McMahon M,Bosenberg M

更新日期：2011-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Constitutive activation of NF-κB signaling can promote oncogenesis, providing a rationale for anticancer strategies that inhibit NF-κB signaling. Two recent publications in Genes & Development provide evidence that, in contexts where prosurvival signals derive from other oncogenes, NF-κB activity instead enhances sens...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Klein U,Ghosh S

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify FDA-approved agents targeting leukemic cells, we performed a chemical screen on two human leukemic cell lines and identified the antimicrobial tigecycline. A genome-wide screen in yeast identified mitochondrial translation inhibition as the mechanism of tigecycline-mediated lethality. Tigecycline selective...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Skrtić M,Sriskanthadevan S,Jhas B,Gebbia M,Wang X,Wang Z,Hurren R,Jitkova Y,Gronda M,Maclean N,Lai CK,Eberhard Y,Bartoszko J,Spagnuolo P,Rutledge AC,Datti A,Ketela T,Moffat J,Robinson BH,Cameron JH,Wrana J,Eaves

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt/β-catenin signaling is essential for stem cell regulation and tumorigenesis, but its molecular mechanisms are not fully understood. Here, we report that FoxM1 is a downstream component of Wnt signaling and is critical for β-catenin transcriptional function in tumor cells. Wnt3a increases the level and nuclear tran...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Zhang N,Wei P,Gong A,Chiu WT,Lee HT,Colman H,Huang H,Xue J,Liu M,Wang Y,Sawaya R,Xie K,Yung WK,Medema RH,He X,Huang S

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting chromatin regulators for the treatment of malignancies has shown great promise, but also revealed significant challenges. By employing an elegant shRNA screen and a selective pharmacological inhibitor, a recent study published in Nature establishes the bromodomain protein Brd4 as novel target in acute myeloi...

journal_title：Cancer cell

authors： Blobel GA,Kalota A,Sanchez PV,Carroll M

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00