RAGE (Receptor for Advanced Glycation Endproducts), RAGE ligands, and their role in cancer and inflammation

LJ Sparvero, D Asafu-Adjei, R Kang, D Tang… - Journal of translational …, 2009 - Springer
Abstract The Receptor for Advanced Glycation Endproducts [RAGE] is an evolutionarily
recent member of the immunoglobulin super-family, encoded in the Class III region of the …

Roles of HMGA proteins in cancer

A Fusco, M Fedele - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2007 - nature.com
The high mobility group A (HMGA) non-histone chromatin proteins alter chromatin structure
and thereby regulate the transcription of several genes by either enhancing or suppressing …

The role of insulin receptors and IGF-I receptors in cancer and other diseases

F Frasca, G Pandini, L Sciacca, V Pezzino… - … of physiology and …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
There is evidence, both in vitro and in vivo, that receptor tyrosine kinases play a key role in
the formation and progression of human cancer. In particular, the insulin-like growth factor …

Nuclear functions of the HMG proteins

R Reeves - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene Regulatory …, 2010 - Elsevier
Although the three families of mammalian HMG proteins (HMGA, HMGB and HMGN)
participate in many of the same nuclear processes, each family plays its own unique role in …

Duplication of 7q34 in pediatric low‐grade astrocytomas detected by high‐density single‐nucleotide polymorphism‐based genotype arrays results in a novel BRAF …

AJ Sievert, EM Jackson, X Gai, H Hakonarson… - Brain …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
In the present study, DNA from 28 pediatric low‐grade astrocytomas was analyzed using
Illumina HumanHap550K single‐nucleotide polymorphism oligonucleotide arrays. A novel …

A cell proliferation and chromosomal instability signature in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma

G Salvatore, TC Nappi, P Salerno, Y Jiang, C Garbi… - Cancer research, 2007 - AACR
Here, we show that the anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) features the up-regulation of a
set of genes involved in the control of cell cycle progression and chromosome segregation …

HMGA proteins as modulators of chromatin structure during transcriptional activation

N Ozturk, I Singh, A Mehta, T Braun… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
High mobility group (HMG) proteins are the most abundant non-histone chromatin
associated proteins. HMG proteins bind to DNA and nucleosome and alter the structure of …

Control of HIPK2 stability by ubiquitin ligase Siah-1 and checkpoint kinases ATM and ATR

M Winter, D Sombroek, I Dauth, J Moehlenbrink… - Nature cell …, 2008 - nature.com
The tumour suppressor HIPK2 is an important regulator of cell death induced by DNA
damage, but how its activity is regulated remains largely unclear. Here we demonstrate that …

Regulation of p53 activity by HIPK2: molecular mechanisms and therapeutical implications in human cancer cells

R Puca, L Nardinocchi, D Givol, G D'Orazi - Oncogene, 2010 - nature.com
The p53 protein is the most studied tumor suppressor and the p53 pathway has been shown
to mediate cellular stress responses that are disrupted when cancer develops. After DNA …

HMGA and cancer

M Fedele, A Fusco - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene Regulatory …, 2010 - Elsevier
Long-standing studies have clearly established that the architectural chromatinic proteins
High Mobility Group A (HMGA) are among the most widely expressed cancer-associated …