Mechanisms of obesity-and diabetes mellitus-related pancreatic carcinogenesis: a comprehensive and systematic review

R Ruze, J Song, X Yin, Y Chen, R Xu… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Research on obesity-and diabetes mellitus (DM)-related carcinogenesis has expanded
exponentially since these two diseases were recognized as important risk factors for …

Centromere and pericentromere transcription: roles and regulation… in sickness and in health

K Smurova, P De Wulf - Frontiers in Genetics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The chromosomal loci known as centromeres (CEN) mediate the equal distribution of the
duplicated genome between both daughter cells. Specifically, centromeres recruit a protein …

Moving mountains—the BRCA1 promotion of DNA resection

RM Densham, JR Morris - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2019 - frontiersin.org
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) occur in our cells in the context of chromatin. This type of
lesion is toxic, entirely preventing genome continuity and causing cell death or terminal …

Pancreatic cancer and obesity: molecular mechanisms of cell transformation and chemoresistance

P Cascetta, A Cavaliere, G Piro, L Torroni… - International Journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cancer and obesity are the two major epidemics of the 21st century. Pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the leading causes of death, with a five-year overall …

Satellite DNAs in health and disease

Đ Ugarković, A Sermek, S Ljubić, I Feliciello - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tandemly repeated satellite DNAs are major components of centromeres and
pericentromeric heterochromatin which are crucial chromosomal elements responsible for …

Non-coding RNAs and lipids mediate the function of extracellular vesicles in cancer cross-talk

A Kotani, M Ito, K Kudo - Seminars in cancer biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Research on extracellular vesicles (EVs) has been expanded, especially in the field of
cancer. The cargoes in EVs, especially those in small EVs such as exosomes include …

Satellite DNA-mediated gene expression regulation: Physiological and evolutionary implication

I Feliciello, Ž Pezer, A Sermek, B Bruvo Mađarić… - Satellite DNAs in …, 2021 - Springer
Satellite DNAs are tandemly repeated sequences organized in large clusters within (peri)
centromeric and/or subtelomeric heterochromatin. However, in many species, satellite DNAs …

Genome-wide distribution of histone trimethylation reveals a global impact of bisphenol A on telomeric binding proteins and histone acetyltransferase factors: a pilot …

SC D'cruz, C Hao, M Labussiere, V Mustieles… - Clinical …, 2022 - Springer
Objective To assess the genetic and epigenetic effects promoted by Bisphenol A (BPA)
exposure in adolescent males from the Spanish INMA-Granada birth cohort, and in human …

The genomic landscape of centromeres in cancers

AK Saha, M Mourad, MH Kaplan, I Chefetz, SN Malek… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Centromere genomics remain poorly characterized in cancer, due to technologic limitations
in sequencing and bioinformatics methodologies that make high-resolution delineation of …

Recent advances in extracellular vesicles in gastrointestinal cancer and lymphoma

M Otsuka, A Kotani - Cancer Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are intercellular communication agents that transfer microRNAs
(miRNAs), other non‐coding RNAs (ncRNAs), messenger RNAs (mRNAs), proteins, lipids …