Retinoic acid receptors: from molecular mechanisms to cancer therapy

A Di Masi, L Leboffe, E De Marinis, F Pagano… - Molecular aspects of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Retinoic acid (RA), the major bioactive metabolite of retinol or vitamin A, induces a spectrum
of pleiotropic effects in cell growth and differentiation that are relevant for embryonic …

Deconstructing a Disease: RAR, Its Fusion Partners, and Their Roles in the Pathogenesis of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

A Melnick, JD Licht - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 1999 - ashpublications.org
IN THE LATE 1980s and early 1990s, the elucidation of the molecular basis of acute
promyelocytic leukemia (APL) emerged as a paradigm for the connection between the …

Retinoids in cancer therapy and chemoprevention: promise meets resistance

SJ Freemantle, MJ Spinella, E Dmitrovsky - Oncogene, 2003 - nature.com
Retinoids (natural and synthetic derivatives of vitamin A) signal potent differentiation and
growth-suppressive effects in diverse normal, premalignant, and malignant cells. A strong …

Sequestration and inhibition of Daxx-mediated transcriptional repression by PML

H Li, C Leo, J Zhu, X Wu, J O'Neil, EJ Park… - Molecular and cellular …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
PML fuses with retinoic acid receptor α (RARα) in the t (15; 17) translocation that causes
acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). In addition to localizing diffusely throughout the …

Retinoic acid receptors and cancers

DR Soprano, P Qin, KJ Soprano - Annu. Rev. Nutr., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Studies utilizing experimental animals, epidemiological approaches, cellular
models, and clinical trials all provide evidence that retinoic acid and some of its synthetic …

Reduced retinoic acid-sensitivities of nuclear receptor corepressor binding to PML-and PLZF-RARα underlie molecular pathogenesis and treatment of acute …

F Guidez, S Ivins, J Zhu… - Blood, The Journal …, 1998 - ashpublications.org
Typical acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is associated with expression of the PML-RARα
fusion protein and responsiveness to treatment with all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA). A rare, but …

Mechanisms involved in the induced differentiation of leukemia cells

AS Tsiftsoglou, IS Pappas, IS Vizirianakis - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2003 - Elsevier
Despite the remarkable progress achieved in the treatment of leukemias over the last
several years, many problems (multidrug resistance [MDR], cellular heterogeneity …

Acquisition of oncogenic potential by RAR chimeras in acute promyelocytic leukemia through formation of homodimers

RJ Lin, RM Evans - Molecular cell, 2000 - cell.com
Abstract The t (15; 17) chromosomal translocation in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL)
generates the PML-RARα fusion protein. The recruitment of nuclear receptor corepressor …

Genetic diagnosis and molecular monitoring in the management of acute promyelocytic leukemia

FL Coco, D Diverio, B Falini, A Biondi… - Blood, The Journal …, 1999 - ashpublications.org
DESPITE ITS well-known sensitivity to anthracyclines, 1-5 acute promyelocytic leukemia
(APL) was catalogued until the late 1980s as one of the most rapidly fatal human tumors …

ER stress and unfolded protein response in leukemia: friend, foe, or both?

K Féral, M Jaud, C Philippe, D Di Bella, S Pyronnet… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The unfolded protein response (UPR) is an evolutionarily conserved adaptive signaling
pathway triggered by a stress of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) lumen compartment, which …