Genomic landscape of lung adenocarcinoma in East Asians

J Chen, H Yang, ASM Teo, LB Amer, FG Sherbaf… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Lung cancer is the world's leading cause of cancer death and shows strong ancestry
disparities. By sequencing and assembling a large genomic and transcriptomic dataset of …

Heart failure stimulates tumor growth by circulating factors

WC Meijers, M Maglione, SJL Bakker, R Oberhuber… - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Heart failure (HF) survival has improved, and nowadays, many patients with HF
die of noncardiac causes, including cancer. Our aim was to investigate whether a causal …

Never a dull enzyme, RNA polymerase II

J Huang, X Ji - Transcription, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT RNA polymerase II (Pol II) is composed of 12 subunits that collaborate to
synthesize mRNA within the nucleus. Pol II is widely recognized as a passive holoenzyme …

Deregulations of RNA Pol II Subunits in Cancer

M Muste Sadurni, M Saponaro - Applied Biosciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Deregulated transcription is a well-known characteristic of cancer cells, with differentially
expressed genes being a common feature of several cancers. Often, deregulated …

SERPINA3 silencing inhibits the migration, invasion, and liver metastasis of colon cancer cells

LL Cao, XF Pei, X Qiao, J Yu, H Ye, CL Xi… - Digestive diseases and …, 2018 - Springer
Objective To investigate the impact of SERPINA3 on the migration, invasion, and liver
metastasis of colon cancer cells. Methods Immunohistochemical staining was conducted to …

Parvimonas micra infection enhances proliferation, wound healing, and inflammation of a colorectal cancer cell line

MNA Hatta, EA Mohamad Hanif, SF Chin… - Bioscience …, 2023 - portlandpress.com
The gut microbiota Parvimonas micra has been found to be enriched in gut mucosal tissues
and fecal samples of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients compared with non-CRC controls. In …

[HTML][HTML] Tibetan medicine Liuwei Muxiang pills (LWMX pills) effectively protects mice from chronic non-atrophic gastritis

R Dhondrup, T Tidwell, XK Zhang, X Feng, D Lobsang… - Phytomedicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Chronic non-atrophic gastritis (CNG) is the most common type of chronic
gastritis. If not actively treated, it may induce gastric cancer (GC). Western medicine is …

Characterization of uridine-cytidine kinase like-1 nucleoside kinase activity and its role in tumor growth

EC Matchett, EC Ambrose, J Kornbluth - Biochemical Journal, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Uridine-cytidine kinase like-1 (UCKL-1) is a largely uncharacterized protein with high
sequence similarity to other uridine-cytidine kinases (UCKs). UCKs play an important role in …

Metastatic group 3 medulloblastoma is driven by PRUNE1 targeting NME1–TGF-β–OTX2–SNAIL via PTEN inhibition

V Ferrucci, P de Antonellis, FP Pennino, F Asadzadeh… - Brain, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Genetic modifications during development of paediatric groups 3 and 4 medulloblastoma
are responsible for their highly metastatic properties and poor patient survival rates …

Differentiated glioma cell-derived fibromodulin activates integrin-dependent Notch signaling in endothelial cells to promote tumor angiogenesis and growth

S Sengupta, M Mondal, KR Prasasvi, A Mukherjee… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) alone can initiate and maintain tumors, but the function of non-
cancer stem cells (non-CSCs) that form the tumor bulk remains poorly understood …