Multifunctional aptamer-based nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery to circumvent cancer resistance

J Liu, T Wei, J Zhao, Y Huang, H Deng, A Kumar… - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
By its unique advantages over traditional medicine, nanomedicine has offered new
strategies for cancer treatment. In particular, the development of drug delivery strategies has …

Nucleolin expressed at the cell surface is a marker of endothelial cells in angiogenic blood vessels

S Christian, J Pilch, ME Akerman, K Porkka… - The Journal of cell …, 2003 - rupress.org
A tumor-homing peptide, F3, selectively binds to endothelial cells in tumor blood vessels
and to tumor cells. Here, we show that the cell surface molecule recognized by F3 is …

Targeting MYC expression through G-quadruplexes

TA Brooks, LH Hurley - Genes & cancer, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
In this review, the authors describe a novel mechanism for control of MYC expression that
involves a four-stranded DNA structure, termed a G-quadruplex, amenable to small …

RNA-binding protein nucleolin in disease

K Abdelmohsen, M Gorospe - RNA biology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Nucleolin is a multifunctional protein localized primarily in the nucleolus, but also found in
the nucleoplasm, cytoplasm and cell membrane. It is involved in several aspects of DNA …

Altered machinery of protein synthesis in Alzheimer's: from the nucleolus to the ribosome

K Hernández‐Ortega, P Garcia‐Esparcia, L Gil… - brain …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Ribosomes and protein synthesis have been reported to be altered in the cerebral cortex at
advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Modifications in the hippocampus with …

Identification and characterization of nucleolin as a c-myc G-quadruplex-binding protein

V González, K Guo, L Hurley, D Sun - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2009 - ASBMB
myc is a proto-oncogene that plays an important role in the promotion of cellular growth and
proliferation. Understanding the regulation of c-myc is important in cancer biology, as it is …

Nucleolin: The most abundant multifunctional phosphoprotein of nucleolus

MM Tajrishi, R Tuteja, N Tuteja - Communicative & integrative …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Nucleolin is multifunctional phosphoprotein ubiquitously distributed in the nucleolus,
nucleus and cytoplasm of the cell. Nucleolin has a bipartite nuclear localization signal …

Direct observation of nanoparticle–cancer cell nucleus interactions

DHM Dam, JH Lee, PN Sisco, DT Co, M Zhang… - ACS …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We report the direct visualization of interactions between drug-loaded nanoparticles and the
cancer cell nucleus. Nanoconstructs composed of nucleolin-specific aptamers and gold …

Antiproliferative activity of G-rich oligonucleotides correlates with protein binding

PJ Bates, JB Kahlon, SD Thomas, JO Trent… - Journal of Biological …, 1999 - ASBMB
Oligonucleotides have been extensively studied as antisense or antigene agents that can
potentially modulate the expression of specific genes. These strategies rely on sequence …

[HTML][HTML] N‐myc enhances the expression of a large set of genes functioning in ribosome biogenesis and protein synthesis

K Boon, HN Caron, R Van Asperen, L Valentijn… - The EMBO …, 2001 - embopress.org
The myc oncogenes are frequently activated in human tumors, but there is no
comprehensive insight into the target genes and downstream cellular pathways of these …