The manipulation of apoptosis for cancer therapy using BH3-mimetic drugs

ST Diepstraten, MA Anderson, PE Czabotar… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Apoptosis is a form of programmed cell death that is regulated by the balance between
prosurvival and proapoptotic BCL-2 protein family members. Evasion of apoptosis is a …

Emerging connectivity of programmed cell death pathways and its physiological implications

S Bedoui, MJ Herold, A Strasser - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
The removal of functionally dispensable, infected or potentially neoplastic cells is driven by
programmed cell death (PCD) pathways, highlighting their important roles in homeostasis …

Control of apoptosis by the BCL-2 protein family: implications for physiology and therapy

PE Czabotar, G Lessene, A Strasser… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2014 - nature.com
The BCL-2 protein family determines the commitment of cells to apoptosis, an ancient cell
suicide programme that is essential for development, tissue homeostasis and immunity. Too …

A cell's fate: an overview of the molecular biology and genetics of apoptosis

GC Cavalcante, AP Schaan, GF Cabral… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Apoptosis is one of the main types of regulated cell death, a complex process that can be
triggered by external or internal stimuli, which activate the extrinsic or the intrinsic pathway …

A single oncogenic enhancer rearrangement causes concomitant EVI1 and GATA2 deregulation in leukemia

S Gröschel, MA Sanders, R Hoogenboezem, E de Wit… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Chromosomal rearrangements without gene fusions have been implicated in
leukemogenesis by causing deregulation of proto-oncogenes via relocation of cryptic …

Evading apoptosis in cancer

K Fernald, M Kurokawa - Trends in cell biology, 2013 - cell.com
Carcinogenesis is a mechanistically complex and variable process with a plethora of
underlying genetic causes. Cancer development comprises a multitude of steps that occur …

The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers

R Beroukhim, CH Mermel, D Porter, G Wei… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
A powerful way to discover key genes with causal roles in oncogenesis is to identify
genomic regions that undergo frequent alteration in human cancers. Here we present high …

Mitochondria—judges and executioners of cell death sentences

PD Bhola, A Letai - Molecular cell, 2016 - cell.com
Apoptosis is a form of programmed cell death that is critical for basic human development
and physiology. One of the more important surprises in cell biology in the last two decades is …

Bcl-2 heterodimerizes in vivo with a conserved homolog, Bax, that accelerates programed cell death

ZN Oltval, CL Milliman, SJ Korsmeyer - cell, 1993 - cell.com
Bcl-2 protein is able to repress a number of apoptotic death programs. To investigate the
mechanism of Bcl-2's effect, we examined whether Bcl-2 interacted with other proteins. We …

Navitoclax, a targeted high-affinity inhibitor of BCL-2, in lymphoid malignancies: a phase 1 dose-escalation study of safety, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and …

WH Wilson, OA O'Connor, MS Czuczman… - The lancet …, 2010 - thelancet.com
Background Proteins of the BCL-2 family regulate clonal selection and survival of
lymphocytes, and are frequently overexpressed in lymphomas. Navitoclax is a targeted high …