Targeting p53 pathways: mechanisms, structures, and advances in therapy

H Wang, M Guo, H Wei, Y Chen - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
The TP53 tumor suppressor is the most frequently altered gene in human cancers, and has
been a major focus of oncology research. The p53 protein is a transcription factor that can …

Phase separation as a missing mechanism for interpretation of disease mutations

B Tsang, I Pritišanac, SW Scherer, AM Moses… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
It is unclear how disease mutations impact intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs),
which lack a stable folded structure. These mutations, while prevalent in disease, are …

Structures of p53/BCL-2 complex suggest a mechanism for p53 to antagonize BCL-2 activity

H Wei, H Wang, G Wang, L Qu, L Jiang, S Dai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mitochondrial apoptosis is strictly controlled by BCL-2 family proteins through a subtle
network of protein interactions. The tumor suppressor protein p53 triggers transcription …

Loss of p53 drives neuron reprogramming in head and neck cancer

M Amit, H Takahashi, MP Dragomir, A Lindemann… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The solid tumour microenvironment includes nerve fibres that arise from the peripheral
nervous system,. Recent work indicates that newly formed adrenergic nerve fibres promote …

p53 modifications: exquisite decorations of the powerful guardian

Y Liu, O Tavana, W Gu - Journal of molecular cell biology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The last 40 years have witnessed how p53 rose from a viral binding protein to a central
factor in both stress responses and tumor suppression. The exquisite regulation of p53 …

Arsenic trioxide rescues structural p53 mutations through a cryptic allosteric site

S Chen, JL Wu, Y Liang, YG Tang, HX Song, LL Wu… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
TP53 is the most frequently mutated gene in cancer, yet these mutations remain
therapeutically non-actionable. Major challenges in drugging p53 mutations include …

Regulating tumor suppressor genes: post-translational modifications

L Chen, S Liu, Y Tao - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2020 - nature.com
Tumor suppressor genes cooperate with each other in tumors. Three important tumor
suppressor proteins, retinoblastoma (Rb), p53, phosphatase, and tensin homolog deleted …

The p53 pathway in glioblastoma

Y Zhang, C Dube, M Gibert Jr, N Cruickshanks, B Wang… - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
The tumor suppressor and transcription factor p53 plays critical roles in tumor prevention by
orchestrating a wide variety of cellular responses, including damaged cell apoptosis …

The role of p53 in cancer drug resistance and targeted chemotherapy

K Hientz, A Mohr, D Bhakta-Guha, T Efferth - Oncotarget, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer has long been a grievous disease complicated by innumerable players aggravating
its cure. Many clinical studies demonstrated the prognostic relevance of the tumor …

Cold atmospheric plasma, a novel promising anti-cancer treatment modality

D Yan, JH Sherman, M Keidar - Oncotarget, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Over the past decade, cold atmospheric plasma (CAP), a near room temperature ionized
gas has shown its promising application in cancer therapy. Two CAP devices, namely …