Targeting ribosome biogenesis in cancer: lessons learned and way forward

A Zisi, J Bartek, MS Lindström - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cells need to produce ribosomes to sustain continuous proliferation and
expand in numbers, a feature that is even more prominent in uncontrollably proliferating …

PD-1/PD-L1 and DNA damage response in cancer

M Kciuk, D Kołat, Ż Kałuzińska-Kołat, M Gawrysiak… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
The application of immunotherapy for cancer treatment is rapidly becoming more
widespread. Immunotherapeutic agents are frequently combined with various types of …

Cytotoxicity, Post-Treatment Recovery, and Selectivity Analysis of Naturally Occurring Podophyllotoxins from Bursera fagaroides var. fagaroides on Breast Cancer …

OA Peña-Morán, ML Villarreal, L Álvarez-Berber… - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
Despite prevention and treatment options, breast cancer (BC) has become one of the most
important issues in the present day. Therefore, the need for more specific and efficient …

Trial watch: targeting ATM–CHK2 and ATR–CHK1 pathways for anticancer therapy

G Manic, F Obrist, A Sistigu, I Vitale - Molecular & cellular oncology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The ataxia telangiectasia mutated serine/threonine kinase (ATM)/checkpoint kinase 2
(CHEK2, best known as CHK2) and the ATM and Rad3-related serine/threonine kinase …

A simple high-content cell cycle assay reveals frequent discrepancies between cell number and ATP and MTS proliferation assays

GKY Chan, TL Kleinheinz, D Peterson, JG Moffat - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
In order to efficiently characterize both antiproliferative potency and mechanism of action of
small molecules targeting the cell cycle, we developed a high-throughput image-based …

Etoposide promotes DNA loop trapping and barrier formation by topoisomerase II

TT Le, M Wu, JH Lee, N Bhatt, JT Inman… - Nature chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Etoposide is a broadly employed chemotherapeutic and eukaryotic topoisomerase II poison
that stabilizes cleaved DNA intermediates to promote DNA breakage and cytotoxicity. How …

[HTML][HTML] The Epstein–Barr Virus BART microRNAs target the pro-apoptotic protein Bim

AR Marquitz, A Mathur, CS Nam, N Raab-Traub - Virology, 2011 - Elsevier
In Epstein–Barr Virus infected epithelial cancers, the alternatively spliced BamHI A rightward
transcripts (BARTs) are abundantly expressed and are the template for two large clusters of …

The ATM and ATR kinases regulate centrosome clustering and tumor recurrence by targeting KIFC1 phosphorylation

G Fan, L Sun, L Meng, C Hu, X Wang, Z Shi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Drug resistance and tumor recurrence are major challenges in cancer treatment. Cancer
cells often display centrosome amplification. To maintain survival, cancer cells achieve …

Anthracyclines induce DNA damage response-mediated protection against severe sepsis

N Figueiredo, A Chora, H Raquel, N Pejanovic… - Immunity, 2013 - cell.com
Severe sepsis remains a poorly understood systemic inflammatory condition with high
mortality rates and limited therapeutic options in addition to organ support measures. Here …

A tumor suppressor function of Smurf2 associated with controlling chromatin landscape and genome stability through RNF20

M Blank, Y Tang, M Yamashita, SS Burkett… - Nature medicine, 2012 - nature.com
In addition to allelic mutations, cancers are known to harbor alterations in their chromatin
landscape. Here we show that genomic ablation of Smad ubiquitin regulatory factor 2 …