Colorectal cancer: genetic abnormalities, tumor progression, tumor heterogeneity, clonal evolution and tumor-initiating cells

U Testa, E Pelosi, G Castelli - Medical Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Colon cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide. Most colorectal cancer
occurrences are sporadic, not related to genetic predisposition or family history; however, 20 …

Wnt signaling in the regulation of immune cell and cancer therapeutics

M Haseeb, RH Pirzada, QU Ain, S Choi - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Wnt signaling is one of the important pathways to play a major role in various biological
processes, such as embryonic stem-cell development, tissue regeneration, cell …

A specific mutational signature associated with DNA 8-oxoguanine persistence in MUTYH-defective colorectal cancer

A Viel, A Bruselles, E Meccia, M Fornasarig, M Quaia… - …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Oxoguanine, a common mutagenic DNA lesion, generates G: C> T: A transversions via
mispairing with adenine during DNA replication. When operating normally, the MUTYH DNA …

[HTML][HTML] AMER1 deficiency promotes the distant metastasis of colorectal cancer by inhibiting SLC7A11-and FTL-mediated ferroptosis

S Lei, C Chen, F Han, J Deng, D Huang, L Qian, M Zhu… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The crosstalk between ferroptosis and cancer metastasis remains unclear. Here, we identify
AMER1 as a key regulator of ferroptosis. AMER1 loss causes resistance to ferroptosis in …

Comprehensive analysis of copy number aberrations in microsatellite stable colon cancer in view of stromal component

MH Alonso, S Aussó, A Lopez-Doriga… - British journal of …, 2017 - nature.com
Background: Somatic copy number aberrations (CNAs) are common acquired changes in
cancer cells having an important role in the progression of colon cancer (colorectal cancer …

deepDriver: predicting cancer driver genes based on somatic mutations using deep convolutional neural networks

P Luo, Y Ding, X Lei, FX Wu - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
With the advances in high-throughput technologies, millions of somatic mutations have been
reported in the past decade. Identifying driver genes with oncogenic mutations from these …

Genetic alterations of TRAF proteins in human cancers

S Zhu, J Jin, S Gokhale, AM Lu, H Shan… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNF-R)-associated factor (TRAF) family of cytoplasmic
adaptor proteins regulate the signal transduction pathways of a variety of receptors …

Targeting Wnt signaling in endometrial cancer

I Fatima, S Barman, R Rai, KW Thiel, V Chandra - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Wnt has diverse regulatory roles at multiple cellular levels and numerous
targeting points, and aberrant Wnt signaling has crucial roles in carcinogenesis, metastasis …

Comparative proteogenomic analysis of right-sided colon cancer, left-sided colon cancer and rectal cancer reveals distinct mutational profiles

R Imperial, Z Ahmed, OM Toor, C Erdoğan, A Khaliq… - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Right-sided colon cancer (RCC) has worse prognosis compared to left-sided colon cancer
(LCC) and rectal cancer. The reason for this difference in outcomes is not well understood …

Predictive genetic biomarkers for the development of peritoneal metastases in colorectal cancer

DJI Heuvelings, AGWE Wintjens, L Moonen… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common cause of cancer-related mortality, of which
peritoneal metastases (PMs) have the worse outcome. Metastasis-specific markers may help …