A compendium of mutational cancer driver genes

F Martínez-Jiménez, F Muiños, I Sentís… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
A fundamental goal in cancer research is to understand the mechanisms of cell
transformation. This is key to developing more efficient cancer detection methods and …

RB1: a prototype tumor suppressor and an enigma

NJ Dyson - Genes & development, 2016 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The retinoblastoma susceptibility gene (RB1) was the first tumor suppressor gene to be
molecularly defined. RB1 mutations occur in almost all familial and sporadic forms of …

LinkedOmics: analyzing multi-omics data within and across 32 cancer types

SV Vasaikar, P Straub, J Wang… - Nucleic acids research, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The LinkedOmics database contains multi-omics data and clinical data for 32 cancer types
and a total of 11 158 patients from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project. It is also the …

Critical roles of non-histone protein lysine methylation in human tumorigenesis

R Hamamoto, V Saloura, Y Nakamura - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Several protein lysine methyltransferases and demethylases have been identified to have
critical roles in histone modification. A large body of evidence has indicated that their …

Molecular mechanisms of hepatocellular carcinoma

RN Aravalli, CJ Steer, ENK Cressman - Hepatology, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) typically has poor prognosis, because it is often diagnosed
at an advanced stage. Heterogeneous phenotypic and genetic traits of affected individuals …

Conserved functions of the pRB and E2F families

S Van Den Heuvel, NJ Dyson - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2008 - nature.com
Proteins that are related to the retinoblastoma tumour suppressor pRB and the E2F
transcription factor are conserved in many species of plants and animals. The mammalian …

Cell cycle and beyond: exploiting new RB1 controlled mechanisms for cancer therapy

ES Knudsen, SC Pruitt, PA Hershberger, AK Witkiewicz… - Trends in cancer, 2019 - cell.com
Recent studies highlight the importance of the RB1 tumor suppressor as a target for cancer
therapy. Canonically, RB1 regulates cell cycle progression and represents the downstream …

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of hepatocellular carcinoma: an update

RN Aravalli, ENK Cressman, CJ Steer - Archives of toxicology, 2013 - Springer
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary malignant tumor that accounts
for~ 80% of all liver cancer cases worldwide. It is a multifactorial disease caused by a variety …

Major molecular signaling pathways in oral cancer associated with therapeutic resistance

S Usman, A Jamal, MT Teh, A Waseem - Frontiers in Oral Health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Oral cancer is a sub-category of head and neck cancers that primarily initiates in the oral
cavity. The primary treatment option for oral cancer remains surgery but it is associated with …

Proteogenomic characterization of ovarian HGSC implicates mitotic kinases, replication stress in observed chromosomal instability

JE McDermott, OA Arshad, VA Petyuk, Y Fu… - Cell reports …, 2020 - cell.com
In the absence of a dominant driving mutation other than uniformly present TP53 mutations,
deeper understanding of the biology driving ovarian high-grade serous cancer (HGSC) …