Redox dysregulation as a driver for DNA damage and its relationship to neurodegenerative diseases

S Shadfar, S Parakh, MS Jamali, JD Atkin - Translational …, 2023 - Springer
Redox homeostasis refers to the balance between the production of reactive oxygen species
(ROS) as well as reactive nitrogen species (RNS), and their elimination by antioxidants. It is …

New insights into redox-related risk factors and therapeutic targets in oral squamous cell carcinoma

I Dewenter, J Kumbrink, P Poxleitner, W Smolka… - Oral Oncology, 2023 - Elsevier
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most common cancer in the oral cavity
accounting for 90% of oral cancer with a global incidence of 350.000 new cases per year …

Mismatch repair markers in preoperative and operative endometrial cancer samples; expression concordance and prognostic value

HF Berg, H Engerud, M Myrvold, HE Lien… - British journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Background The endometrial cancer mismatch repair (MMR) deficient subgroup is defined
by loss of MSH6, MSH2, PMS2 or MLH1. We compare MMR status in paired preoperative …

Sustained inactivation of the Polycomb PRC1 complex induces DNA repair defects and genomic instability in epigenetic tumors

CC Rawal, V Loubiere, NL Butova, J Gracia… - Histochemistry and Cell …, 2024 - Springer
Cancer initiation and progression are typically associated with the accumulation of driver
mutations and genomic instability. However, recent studies demonstrated that cancer can …

Genomic instability promoted by overexpression of mismatch repair factors in yeast: a model for understanding cancer progression

U Chakraborty, TA Dinh, E Alani - Genetics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Increased expression of mismatch repair proteins often correlates with tumor
aggressiveness. Chakraborty, Dinh, and Alani report that co-overexpression of Msh2 and …

Mismatch repair gene MSH6 correlates with the prognosis, immune status and immune checkpoint inhibitors response of endometrial cancer

LZ Zhou, HQ Xiao, J Chen - Frontiers in Immunology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Objective Many patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) developed primary
or secondary drug resistance for unknown reasons. This study investigates whether …

Genetic Analysis Reveals the Prognostic Significance of the DNA Mismatch Repair Gene MSH2 in Advanced Prostate Cancer

HH Chang, CH Lee, YT Chen, CY Huang, CC Yu… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Androgen deprivation therapy is the most effective and widely used
treatment for advanced prostate cancer, but its efficacy is highly variable among patients …

[HTML][HTML] Accelerated Aging and Microsatellite Instability in Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa–Associated Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma

CAA Lee, S Wu, YT Chow, E Kofman, V Williams… - Journal of Investigative …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) is a severely debilitating disorder
caused by pathogenic variants in COL7A1 and is characterized by extreme skin fragility …

Mismatch repair system proteins in oral benign and malignant lesions

GK Amaral‐Silva, MD Martins… - Journal of Oral …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Different environmental agents may cause DNA mutations by disrupting its double‐strand
structure; however, even normal DNA polymerase function may synthesize mismatch …

The mutator phenotype: Adapting microbial evolution to cancer biology

F Natali, G Rancati - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The mutator phenotype hypothesis was postulated almost 40 years ago to reconcile the
observation that while cancer cells display widespread mutational burden, acquisition of …