Cofilin: a promising protein implicated in cancer metastasis and apoptosis

J Xu, Y Huang, J Zhao, L Wu, Q Qi, Y Liu… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cofilin is an actin-binding protein that regulates filament dynamics and depolymerization.
The over-expression of cofilin is observed in various cancers, cofilin promotes cancer …

PDZ and LIM domain-encoding genes: their role in cancer development

X Jiang, Z Xu, S Jiang, H Wang, M Xiao, Y Shi, K Wang - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary There are three subfamilies of human PDZ-LIM family proteins with a total
of 10 protein molecules, and PDZ-LIM family proteins serve as a class of scaffolding proteins …

SARS-CoV-2 membrane protein causes the mitochondrial apoptosis and pulmonary edema via targeting BOK

Y Yang, Y Wu, X Meng, Z Wang, M Younis… - Cell Death & …, 2022 - nature.com
Deaths caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are largely due to the lungs
edema resulting from the disruption of the lung alveolo-capillary barrier, induced by SARS …

Mitomycin C enhanced the efficacy of PD-L1 blockade in non-small cell lung cancer

M Luo, F Wang, H Zhang, KKW To, S Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) immune checkpoint inhibitors are promising
therapeutic agents for treating cancers but the response rate is< 20%. Some …

GM-CSF mediates immune evasion via upregulation of PD-L1 expression in extranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma

Q Rong, F Wang, Z Guo, Y Hu, S An, M Luo, H Zhang… - Molecular Cancer, 2021 - Springer
Background Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a cytokine that
is used as an immunopotentiator for anti-tumor therapies in recent years. We found that …

Targeting anillin inhibits tumorigenesis and tumor growth in hepatocellular carcinoma via impairing cytokinesis fidelity

J Chen, Z Li, X Jia, W Song, H Wu, H Zhu, Z Xuan, Y Du… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
Targeting cytokinesis can suppress tumor growth by blocking cell division and promoting
apoptosis. We aimed to characterize key cytokinesis regulator in hepatocellular carcinoma …

[HTML][HTML] PD0325901, an ERK inhibitor, enhances the efficacy of PD-1 inhibitor in non-small cell lung carcinoma

M Luo, Y Xia, F Wang, H Zhang, D Su, C Su… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
ERK pathway regulated the programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) expression which was
linked to the response of programmed death-1 (PD-1)/PD-L1 blockade therapy. So it is …

Lazertinib improves the efficacy of chemotherapeutic drugs in ABCB1 or ABCG2 overexpression cancer cells in vitro, in vivo, and ex vivo

Y Fan, T Tao, Z Guo, KKW To, D Chen, S Wu… - Molecular Therapy …, 2022 - cell.com
Multidrug resistance (MDR) is the major cause of chemotherapy failure, which is usually
caused by the overexpression of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters such as ABCB1 …

[HTML][HTML] Mediator complex in transcription regulation and DNA repair: Relevance for human diseases

CA Maalouf, A Alberti, J Soutourina - DNA repair, 2024 - Elsevier
The Mediator complex is an essential coregulator of RNA polymerase II transcription. More
recent developments suggest Mediator functions as a link between transcription regulation …

Insights into the regulatory role and clinical relevance of mediator subunit, MED12, in human diseases

S Srivastava, R Kulshreshtha - Journal of Cellular Physiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Transcriptional dysregulation is central to many diseases including cancer. Mutation or
deregulated expression of proteins involved in transcriptional machinery leads to aberrant …