The filamins: organizers of cell structure and function

F Nakamura, TP Stossel, JH Hartwig - Cell adhesion & migration, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Filamin A (FLNa), the first non-muscle actin filament cross-linking protein, was identified in
1975. Thirty five years of FLNa research has revealed its structure in great detail, discovered …

Filamins in cell signaling, transcription and organ development

AX Zhou, JH Hartwig, LM Akyürek - Trends in cell biology, 2010 - cell.com
Filamins are large actin-binding proteins that stabilize delicate three-dimensional actin
filament networks and link them to cellular membranes where they integrate cell …

Filamin A regulates cardiovascular remodeling

S Bandaru, C Ala, AX Zhou, LM Akyürek - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Filamin A (FLNA) is a large actin-binding cytoskeletal protein that is important for cell motility
by stabilizing actin networks and integrating them with cell membranes. Interestingly, a C …

Identification and angiogenic role of the novel tumor endothelial marker CLEC14A

M Mura, RK Swain, X Zhuang, H Vorschmitt… - Oncogene, 2012 - nature.com
Tumor endothelial markers (TEMs) that are highly expressed in human tumor vasculature
compared with vasculature in normal tissue hold clear therapeutic potential. We report that …

MCAM and LAMA4 are highly enriched in tumor blood vessels of renal cell carcinoma and predict patient outcome

JW Wragg, JP Finnity, JA Anderson, HJM Ferguson… - Cancer research, 2016 - AACR
The structure and molecular signature of tumor-associated vasculature are distinct from
those of the host tissue, offering an opportunity to selectively target the tumor blood vessels …

[HTML][HTML] CAR T cells targeting tumor endothelial marker CLEC14A inhibit tumor growth

X Zhuang, F Maione, J Robinson, M Bentley, B Kaul… - JCI insight, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Engineering T cells to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) specific for antigens on
hematological cancers has yielded remarkable clinical responses, but with solid tumors …

[HTML][HTML] Opioids: modulators of angiogenesis in wound healing and cancer

M Ondrovics, A Hoelbl-Kovacic, DA Fux - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Opioids are potent drugs that are widely used to control wound or cancer pain. Increasing
evidence suggest that opioids mediate clinically relevant effects that go beyond their …

Manipulation of cardiac phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt signaling by apoptosis regulator through modulating IAP expression (ARIA) regulates cardiomyocyte …

Y Kitamura, M Koide, Y Akakabe, K Matsuo… - Journal of biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
PI3K/Akt signaling plays an important role in the regulation of cardiomyocyte death
machinery, which can cause stress-induced cardiac dysfunction. Here, we report that …

Targeting filamin A reduces K-RAS–induced lung adenocarcinomas and endothelial response to tumor growth in mice

RK Nallapalli, MX Ibrahim, AX Zhou, S Bandaru… - Molecular cancer, 2012 - Springer
Background Many human cancer cells express filamin A (FLNA), an actin-binding structural
protein that interacts with a diverse set of cell signaling proteins, but little is known about the …

[HTML][HTML] Glutamate dependent NMDA receptor 2D is a novel angiogenic tumour endothelial marker in colorectal cancer

HJM Ferguson, JW Wragg, S Ward, VL Heath, T Ismail… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Current vascular-targeted therapies in colorectal cancer (CRC) have shown limited benefit.
The lack of novel, specific treatment in CRC has been hampered by a dearth of specific …