Aptamers as targeted therapeutics: current potential and challenges

J Zhou, J Rossi - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2017 - nature.com
Nucleic acid aptamers, often termed'chemical antibodies', are functionally comparable to
traditional antibodies, but offer several advantages, including their relatively small physical …

The p53 pathway: origins, inactivation in cancer, and emerging therapeutic approaches

AC Joerger, AR Fersht - Annual review of biochemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Inactivation of the transcription factor p53, through either direct mutation or aberrations in
one of its many regulatory pathways, is a hallmark of virtually every tumor. In recent years …

The gut microbiome switches mutant p53 from tumour-suppressive to oncogenic

E Kadosh, I Snir-Alkalay, A Venkatachalam, S May… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Somatic mutations in p53, which inactivate the tumour-suppressor function of p53 and often
confer oncogenic gain-of-function properties, are very common in cancer,. Here we studied …

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 …

Biomimetic nanosonosensitizers combined with noninvasive ultrasound actuation to reverse drug resistance and sonodynamic-enhanced chemotherapy against …

H Chen, S Zhang, Q Fang, H He, J Ren, D Sun, J Lai… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most devastating brain tumor and highly resistant to conventional
chemotherapy. Herein, we introduce biomimetic nanosonosensitizer systems (MDNPs) …

Mutations in the p53 tumor suppressor gene: important milestones at the various steps of tumorigenesis

N Rivlin, R Brosh, M Oren, V Rotter - Genes & cancer, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Inactivation of the p53 tumor suppressor is a frequent event in tumorigenesis. In most cases,
the p53 gene is mutated, giving rise to a stable mutant protein whose accumulation is …

Gain-of-function mutant p53: all the roads lead to tumorigenesis

Y Stein, V Rotter, R Aloni-Grinstein - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The p53 protein is mutated in about 50% of human cancers. Aside from losing the tumor-
suppressive functions of the wild-type form, mutant p53 proteins often acquire inherent …

A designed inhibitor of p53 aggregation rescues p53 tumor suppression in ovarian carcinomas

A Soragni, DM Janzen, LM Johnson, AG Lindgren… - Cancer cell, 2016 - cell.com
Half of all human cancers lose p53 function by missense mutations, with an unknown
fraction of these containing p53 in a self-aggregated amyloid-like state. Here we show that a …

Protein folding and misfolding

CM Dobson - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
The manner in which a newly synthesized chain of amino acids transforms itself into a
perfectly folded protein depends both on the intrinsic properties of the amino-acid sequence …

Cisplatin: mode of cytotoxic action and molecular basis of resistance

ZH Siddik - Oncogene, 2003 - nature.com
Cisplatin is one of the most potent antitumor agents known, displaying clinical activity
against a wide variety of solid tumors. Its cytotoxic mode of action is mediated by its …