Contributions of DNA damage to Alzheimer's disease

X Lin, A Kapoor, Y Gu, MJ Chow, J Peng… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of neurodegenerative disease. Its typical
pathology consists of extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and intracellular tau …

The crucial roles of Bmi-1 in cancer: implications in pathogenesis, metastasis, drug resistance, and targeted therapies

J Xu, L Li, P Shi, H Cui, L Yang - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
B-cell-specific Moloney murine leukemia virus integration region 1 (Bmi-1, also known as
RNF51 or PCGF4) is one of the important members of the PcG gene family, and is involved …

The complex mechanisms by which neurons die following DNA damage in neurodegenerative diseases

S Shadfar, M Brocardo, JD Atkin - International journal of molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Human cells are exposed to numerous exogenous and endogenous insults every day.
Unlike other molecules, DNA cannot be replaced by resynthesis, hence damage to DNA can …

The contributions of prostate cancer stem cells in prostate cancer initiation and metastasis

W Mei, X Lin, A Kapoor, Y Gu, K Zhao, D Tang - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Research in the last decade has clearly revealed a critical role of prostate cancer stem cells
(PCSCs) in prostate cancer (PC). Prostate stem cells (PSCs) reside in both basal and …

[HTML][HTML] BMI1 inhibition eliminates residual cancer stem cells after PD1 blockade and activates antitumor immunity to prevent metastasis and relapse

L Jia, W Zhang, CY Wang - Cell Stem Cell, 2020 - cell.com
PD1 blockade-based combination therapy has been approved as a first-line treatment for
head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). However, the response rate remains …

Developing targeted therapies that exploit aberrant histone ubiquitination in cancer

LMP Jeusset, KJ McManus - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Histone ubiquitination is a critical epigenetic mechanism regulating DNA-driven processes
such as gene transcription and DNA damage repair. Importantly, the cellular machinery …

Toll‑like receptor 4 activates the NLRP3 inflammasome pathway and periodontal inflammaging by inhibiting Bmi‑1 expression

ZY Qin, X Gu, YL Chen, JB Liu… - International …, 2021 - spandidos-publications.com
Overproduction of pro‑inflammatory cytokines in the aged, which is called inflammaging,
leads to the deterioration of periodontitis. Toll‑like receptor 4 (TLR4) plays a role in the …

MUC1-C activates polycomb repressive complexes and downregulates tumor suppressor genes in human cancer cells

H Rajabi, M Hiraki, D Kufe - Oncogene, 2018 - nature.com
The PRC2 and PRC1 complexes are aberrantly expressed in human cancers and have
been linked to decreases in patient survival. MUC1-C is an oncoprotein that is also …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer

X Lin, A Kapoor, Y Gu, MJ Chow… - International …, 2019 - spandidos-publications.com
The assessment of the risk of biochemical recurrence (BCR) is critical in the management of
males with prostate cancer (PC). Over the past decades, a comprehensive effort has been …

miR-15a/miR-16 down-regulates BMI1, impacting Ub-H2A mediated DNA repair and breast cancer cell sensitivity to doxorubicin

N Patel, KR Garikapati, RK Pandita, DK Singh… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The B-lymphoma Moloney murine leukemia virus insertion region-1 protein (BMI1) acts as
an oncogene in various cancers, including breast cancer. Recent evidence suggests that …