KRAS: the critical driver and therapeutic target for pancreatic cancer

AM Waters, CJ Der - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2018 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
RAS genes (HRAS, KRAS, and NRAS) comprise the most frequently mutated oncogene
family in human cancer. With the highest RAS mutation frequencies seen with the top three …

Drugging the undruggable RAS: Mission possible?

AD Cox, SW Fesik, AC Kimmelman, J Luo… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2014 - nature.com
Despite more than three decades of intensive effort, no effective pharmacological inhibitors
of the RAS oncoproteins have reached the clinic, prompting the widely held perception that …

A multiprotein supercomplex controlling oncogenic signalling in lymphoma

JD Phelan, RM Young, DE Webster, S Roulland… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
B cell receptor (BCR) signalling has emerged as a therapeutic target in B cell lymphomas,
but inhibiting this pathway in diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) has benefited only a …

Cancer‐targeting nanoparticles for combinatorial nucleic acid delivery

HJ Vaughan, JJ Green, SY Tzeng - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleic acids are a promising type of therapeutic for the treatment of a wide range of
conditions, including cancer, but they also pose many delivery challenges. For efficient and …

Theranostic magnetic nanoparticles

D Yoo, JH Lee, TH Shin, J Cheon - Accounts of chemical research, 2011 - ACS Publications
Early detection and treatment of disease is the most important component of a favorable
prognosis. Biomedical researchers have thus invested tremendous effort in improving …

[HTML][HTML] eRNAs are required for p53-dependent enhancer activity and gene transcription

CA Melo, J Drost, PJ Wijchers, H van de Werken… - Molecular cell, 2013 - cell.com
Binding within or nearby target genes involved in cell proliferation and survival enables the
p53 tumor suppressor gene to regulate their transcription and cell-cycle progression. Using …

[HTML][HTML] LncRNA Khps1 regulates expression of the proto-oncogene SPHK1 via triplex-mediated changes in chromatin structure

A Postepska-Igielska, A Giwojna, L Gasri-Plotnitsky… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Although thousands of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been discovered, very little is
known about their mode of action. Here we functionally characterize an E2F1-regulated …

Lentivirus-delivered stable gene silencing by RNAi in primary cells

SA Stewart, DM Dykxhoorn, D Palliser, H Mizuno… - Rna, 2003 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Genome-wide genetic approaches have proven useful for examining pathways of biological
significance in model organisms such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Drosophila …

Morphogenesis and oncogenesis of MCF-10A mammary epithelial acini grown in three-dimensional basement membrane cultures

J Debnath, SK Muthuswamy, JS Brugge - Methods, 2003 - Elsevier
The three-dimensional culture of MCF-10A mammary epithelial cells on a reconstituted
basement membrane results in formation of polarized, growth-arrested acini-like spheroids …

The promises and pitfalls of RNA-interference-based therapeutics

D Castanotto, JJ Rossi - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
The discovery that gene expression can be controlled by the Watson–Crick base-pairing of
small RNAs with messenger RNAs containing complementary sequence—a process known …