Polycomb complex protein BMI1 confers resistance to tamoxifen in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer

D Ojo, X Lin, Y Wu, J Cockburn, A Bane, D Tang - Cancer letters, 2018 - Elsevier
We report that BMI1 promotes tamoxifen resistance in estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast
cancer (BC). BMI1 overexpression conferred MCF7 and TD47 cells resistance to tamoxifen; …

Bmi-1, stem cells and cancer

L Jiang, J Li, L Song - Acta Biochim Biophys Sin, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Bmi-1, a polycomb gene family member, plays an important role in cell cycle regulation, cell
immortalization, and cell senescence. Recently, numerous studies have demonstrated that …

Role of BMI1, a stem cell factor, in cancer recurrence and chemoresistance: preclinical and clinical evidences

HR Siddique, M Saleem - Stem cells, 2012 - academic.oup.com
There is increasing evidence that a variety of cancers arise from transformation of normal
stem cells to cancer stem cells (CSCs). CSCs are thought to sustain cancer progression …

[HTML][HTML] Bmi1 regulates self-renewal and epithelial to mesenchymal transition in breast cancer cells through Nanog

AN Paranjape, SA Balaji, T Mandal, EV Krushik… - BMC cancer, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background The Bmi1 polycomb ring finger oncogene, a transcriptional repressor
belonging to the Polycomb group of proteins plays an important role in the regulation of stem …

BMI1 silencing enhances docetaxel activity and impairs antioxidant response in prostate cancer

F Crea, MA Duhagon Serrat, EM Hurt… - … journal of cancer, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The BMI1 oncogene promotes prostate cancer (PC) progression. High B‐cell‐specific
Moloney murine leukemia virus integration site 1 (BMI1) expression predicts poor prognosis …

Bmi-1 collaborates with c-Myc in tumorigenesis by inhibiting c-Myc-induced apoptosis via INK4a/ARF

JJL Jacobs, B Scheijen, JW Voncken… - Genes & …, 1999 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The bmi-1 and myc oncogenes collaborate strongly in murine lymphomagenesis, but the
basis for this collaboration was not understood. We recently identified the ink4a–ARF tumor …

Bim directly antagonizes Bcl-xl in doxorubicin-induced prostate cancer cell apoptosis independently of p53

MC Yang, RW Lin, SB Huang, SY Huang, WJ Chen… - Cell Cycle, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Doxorubicin and other anthracycline compounds exert their anti-cancer effects by causing
DNA damage and initiating cell cycle arrest in cancer cells, followed by apoptosis. DNA …

The epigenetic regulators Bmi1 and Ring1B are differentially regulated in pancreatitis and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

C Martínez‐Romero, I Rooman… - The Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) are associated with
major changes in cell differentiation. These changes may be at the basis of the increased …

Evaluating the mechanism and therapeutic potential of PTC-028, a novel inhibitor of BMI-1 function in ovarian cancer

A Dey, X Xiong, A Crim, SKD Dwivedi, SB Mustafi… - Molecular cancer …, 2018 - AACR
BMI-1, also known as a stem cell factor, is frequently upregulated in several malignancies.
Elevated expression of BMI-1 correlates with poor prognosis and is therefore considered a …

BMI1 cooperates with H-RAS to induce an aggressive breast cancer phenotype with brain metastases

MJ Hoenerhoff, I Chu, D Barkan, ZY Liu, S Datta… - Oncogene, 2009 - nature.com
B-lymphoma Moloney murine leukaemia virus insertion region-1 (BMI1) is a member of the
polycomb group of transcription repressors, which functions in stem cell maintenance and …