Clear cell renal cell carcinoma ontogeny and mechanisms of lethality

E Jonasch, CL Walker, WK Rathmell - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2021 - nature.com
The molecular features that define clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) initiation and
progression are being increasingly defined. The TRACERx Renal studies and others that …

[HTML][HTML] The role of ubiquitination in tumorigenesis and targeted drug discovery

L Deng, T Meng, L Chen, W Wei, P Wang - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Ubiquitination, an important type of protein posttranslational modification (PTM), plays a
crucial role in controlling substrate degradation and subsequently mediates the “quantity” …

[HTML][HTML] AKT/PKB signaling: navigating the network

BD Manning, A Toker - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The Ser and Thr kinase AKT, also known as protein kinase B (PKB), was discovered 25
years ago and has been the focus of tens of thousands of studies in diverse fields of biology …

[HTML][HTML] Von Hippel–Lindau disease: insights into oxygen sensing, protein degradation, and cancer

WG Kaelin - The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Germline loss-of-function mutations of the VHL tumor suppressor gene cause von Hippel–
Lindau disease, which is associated with an increased risk of hemangioblastomas, clear cell …

Tumor hypoxia: From basic knowledge to therapeutic implications

C Liao, X Liu, C Zhang, Q Zhang - Seminars in cancer biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Diminished oxygen availability, termed hypoxia, within solid tumors is one of the most
common characteristics of cancer. Hypoxia shapes the landscape of the tumor …

[HTML][HTML] A pan-cancer proteogenomic atlas of PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway alterations

Y Zhang, PKS Ng, M Kucherlapati, F Chen, Y Liu… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Molecular alterations involving the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway (including mutation, copy
number, protein, or RNA) were examined across 11,219 human cancers representing 32 …

Prolonged hypoxia alleviates prolyl hydroxylation-mediated suppression of RIPK1 to promote necroptosis and inflammation

T Zhang, D Xu, J Liu, M Wang, LJ Duan, M Liu… - Nature cell …, 2023 - nature.com
The prolyl hydroxylation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α) mediated by the EGLN–
pVHL pathway represents a classic signalling mechanism that mediates cellular adaptation …

[HTML][HTML] Akt: a key transducer in cancer

PJ Tsai, YH Lai, RK Manne, YS Tsai… - Journal of biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
Growth factor signaling plays a pivotal role in diverse biological functions, such as cell
growth, apoptosis, senescence, and migration and its deregulation has been linked to …

Copper promotes tumorigenesis by activating the PDK1‐AKT oncogenic pathway in a copper transporter 1 dependent manner

J Guo, J Cheng, N Zheng, X Zhang, X Dai… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Copper plays pivotal roles in metabolic homoeostasis, but its potential role in human
tumorigenesis is not well defined. Here, it is revealed that copper activates the …

[HTML][HTML] The EGLN-HIF O2-sensing system: multiple inputs and feedbacks

M Ivan, WG Kaelin - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
The EGLN (also called PHD) prolyl hydroxylase enzymes and their canonical targets, the
HIFα subunits, represent the core of an ancient oxygen-monitoring machinery used by …