Reactive oxygen species in the tumor microenvironment: an overview

F Weinberg, N Ramnath, D Nagrath - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are important signaling molecules in cancer. The level of
ROS will determine physiological effects. While high levels of ROS can cause damage to …

Cross-talk of Brassinosteroid signaling in controlling growth and stress responses

T Nolan, J Chen, Y Yin - Biochemical Journal, 2017 - portlandpress.com
Plants are faced with a barrage of stresses in their environment and must constantly balance
their growth and survival. As such, plants have evolved complex control systems that …

Selective autophagy of BES1 mediated by DSK2 balances plant growth and survival

TM Nolan, B Brennan, M Yang, J Chen, M Zhang, Z Li… - Developmental cell, 2017 - cell.com
Plants encounter a variety of stresses and must fine-tune their growth and stress-response
programs to best suit their environment. BES1 functions as a master regulator in the …

PBRM1 loss defines a nonimmunogenic tumor phenotype associated with checkpoint inhibitor resistance in renal carcinoma

XD Liu, W Kong, CB Peterson, DJ McGrail… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A non-immunogenic tumor microenvironment (TME) is a significant barrier to immune
checkpoint blockade (ICB) response. The impact of Polybromo-1 (PBRM1) on TME and …

Lactate inhibits ATP6V0d2 expression in tumor-associated macrophages to promote HIF-2α–mediated tumor progression

N Liu, J Luo, D Kuang, S Xu, Y Duan… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Macrophages perform key functions in tissue homeostasis that are influenced by the local
tissue environment. Within the tumor microenvironment, tumor-associated macrophages can …

Mitochondrial Akt regulation of hypoxic tumor reprogramming

YC Chae, V Vaira, MC Caino, HY Tang, JH Seo… - Cancer cell, 2016 - cell.com
Hypoxia is a universal driver of aggressive tumor behavior, but the underlying mechanisms
are not completely understood. Using a phosphoproteomics screen, we now show that …

VHL substrate transcription factor ZHX2 as an oncogenic driver in clear cell renal cell carcinoma

J Zhang, T Wu, J Simon, M Takada, R Saito, C Fan… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Inactivation of the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) E3 ubiquitin ligase protein is a hallmark of clear
cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). Identifying how pathways affected by VHL loss contribute …

Autophagy-regulating microRNAs and cancer

D Gozuacik, Y Akkoc, DG Ozturk, M Kocak - Frontiers in oncology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Macroautophagy (autophagy herein) is a cellular stress response and a survival pathway
that is responsible for the degradation of long-lived proteins, protein aggregates, as well as …

d-limonene exhibits antitumor activity by inducing autophagy and apoptosis in lung cancer

X Yu, H Lin, Y Wang, W Lv, S Zhang, Y Qian… - OncoTargets and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose d-limonene is a plant extract with widespread application, and it has been recently
reported to have antiproliferative and proapoptotic effects on cancer cells. However, the …

Resistance to antiangiogenic therapy is associated with an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in metastatic renal cell carcinoma

XD Liu, A Hoang, L Zhou, S Kalra, A Yetil, M Sun… - Cancer immunology …, 2015 - AACR
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is an immunogenic and proangiogenic cancer, and
antiangiogenic therapy is the current mainstay of treatment. Patients with RCC develop …