p21 in cancer research

B Shamloo, S Usluer - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
p21 functions as a cell cycle inhibitor and anti-proliferative effector in normal cells, and is
dysregulated in some cancers. Earlier observations on p21 knockout models emphasized …

Targeting multiple signaling pathways: the new approach to acute myeloid leukemia therapy

JL Carter, K Hege, J Yang, HA Kalpage, Y Su… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common form of acute leukemia in adults and the
second most common form of acute leukemia in children. Despite this, very little …

Benchmark and integration of resources for the estimation of human transcription factor activities

L Garcia-Alonso, CH Holland, MM Ibrahim… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
The prediction of transcription factor (TF) activities from the gene expression of their targets
(ie, TF regulon) is becoming a widely used approach to characterize the functional status of …

Foxp3 reprograms T cell metabolism to function in low-glucose, high-lactate environments

A Angelin, L Gil-de-Gómez, S Dahiya, J Jiao, L Guo… - Cell metabolism, 2017 - cell.com
Immune cells function in diverse metabolic environments. Tissues with low glucose and high
lactate concentrations, such as the intestinal tract or ischemic tissues, frequently require …

The consensus molecular subtypes of colorectal cancer

J Guinney, R Dienstmann, X Wang, A De Reynies… - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a frequently lethal disease with heterogeneous outcomes and
drug responses. To resolve inconsistencies among the reported gene expression–based …

MYC, metabolism, and cancer

ZE Stine, ZE Walton, BJ Altman, AL Hsieh, CV Dang - Cancer discovery, 2015 - AACR
The MYC oncogene encodes a transcription factor, MYC, whose broad effects make its
precise oncogenic role enigmatically elusive. The evidence to date suggests that MYC …

Precise gene editing preserves hematopoietic stem cell function following transient p53-mediated DNA damage response

G Schiroli, A Conti, S Ferrari, L Della Volpe, A Jacob… - Cell stem cell, 2019 - cell.com
Precise gene editing in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) holds promise for
treating genetic diseases. However, responses triggered by programmable nucleases in …

FOXO1 couples metabolic activity and growth state in the vascular endothelium

K Wilhelm, K Happel, G Eelen, S Schoors, MF Oellerich… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Endothelial cells (ECs) are plastic cells that can switch between growth states with different
bioenergetic and biosynthetic requirements. Although quiescent in most healthy tissues …

Human gastric cancer modelling using organoids

T Seidlitz, SR Merker, A Rothe, F Zakrzewski… - Gut, 2019 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Gastric cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths and the fifth
most common malignancy worldwide. In this study, human and mouse gastric cancer …

Myc and cell cycle control

G Bretones, MD Delgado, J León - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2015 - Elsevier
Soon after the discovery of the Myc gene (c-Myc), it became clear that Myc expression levels
tightly correlate to cell proliferation. The entry in cell cycle of quiescent cells upon Myc …