Targeting heat shock protein 27 in cancer: a druggable target for cancer treatment?

SK Choi, H Kam, KY Kim, SI Park, YS Lee - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Heat shock protein 27 (HSP27), induced by heat shock, environmental, and
pathophysiological stressors, is a multi-functional protein that acts as a protein chaperone …

Characterizing cell stress and GRP78 in glioma to enhance tumor treatment

K Liu, K Tsung, FJ Attenello - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary brain tumor, carrying a very poor
prognosis, with median overall survival at about 12 to 15 months despite surgical resection …

NOVA1 regulates hTERT splicing and cell growth in non-small cell lung cancer

AT Ludlow, MS Wong, JD Robin, K Batten… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Alternative splicing is dysregulated in cancer and the reactivation of telomerase involves the
splicing of TERT transcripts to produce full-length (FL) TERT. Knowledge about the splicing …

Downregulation of antigen presentation-associated pathway proteins is linked to poor outcome in triple-negative breast cancer patient tumors

MH Pedersen, BL Hood, HC Beck, TP Conrads… - …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogeneous subtype with varying disease
outcomes. Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) are frequent in TNBC and have been shown …

NOVA1 promotes NSCLC proliferation and invasion by activating Wnt/β-catenin signaling

L Qu, Y Tian, F Wang, Z Li - BMC cancer, 2022 - Springer
Background Neuro-oncological ventral antigen 1 (NOVA1) is a neuron-specific RNA-binding
protein which regulates alternative splicing in the developing nervous system. Recent …

AS1411-induced growth inhibition of glioma cells by up-regulation of p53 and down-regulation of Bcl-2 and Akt1 via nucleolin

Y Cheng, G Zhao, S Zhang, F Nigim, G Zhou, Z Yu… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
AS1411 binds nucleolin (NCL) and is the first oligodeoxynucleotide aptamer to reach phase
I and II clinical trials for the treatment of several cancers. However, the mechanisms by which …

Small heat shock proteins in cancers: Functions and therapeutic potential for cancer therapy

J Xiong, Y Li, X Tan, L Fu - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are ubiquitous ATP-independent chaperones that play
essential roles in response to cellular stresses and protein homeostasis. Investigations of …

Circ-UBR5: an exonic circular RNA and novel small nuclear RNA involved in RNA splicing

M Qin, G Wei, X Sun - Biochemical and biophysical research …, 2018 - Elsevier
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are class of non-coding RNAs formed by back-splicing events as
loops, and could be found in all types of organisms. They play important and diverse roles in …

DNA methylation heterogeneity attributable to a complex tumor immune microenvironment prompts prognostic risk in glioma

S Ma, X Pan, J Gan, X Guo, J He, H Hu, Y Wang… - Epigenetics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Gliomas are malignant tumours of the human nervous system with different World Health
Organization (WHO) classifications, glioblastoma (GBM) with higher grade and are more …

Targeting heat shock proteins in Malignant brain tumors: from basic research to clinical trials

A Babi, K Menlibayeva, T Bex, A Doskaliev… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Heat shock proteins (HSPs) play an important role in cellular metabolism
and therefore are highly expressed in malignant brain tumors. In the current review, the …