Emerging roles of endoplasmic reticulum stress in the cellular plasticity of cancer cells

H Wang, K Mi - Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cellular plasticity is a well-known dynamic feature of tumor cells that endows tumors with
heterogeneity and therapeutic resistance and alters their invasion–metastasis progression …

Nanoparticles as physically-and biochemically-tuned drug formulations for cancers therapy

V Foglizzo, S Marchiò - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Conventional antitumor drugs have limitations, including poor water
solubility and lack of targeting capability, with consequent non-specific distribution, systemic …

Claudin-1 interacts with EPHA2 to promote cancer stemness and chemoresistance in colorectal cancer

M Primeaux, X Liu, S Gowrikumar, I Fatima, KW Fisher… - Cancer Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Therapy resistance is the primary problem in treating late-stage colorectal cancer (CRC).
Claudins are frequently dysregulated in cancer, and several are being investigated as novel …

Targeting hyaluronic acid synthase-3 (HAS3) for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma

J Wang, AR Jordan, H Zhu, SL Hasanali… - Cancer Cell …, 2022 - Springer
Background Hyaluronic acid (HA) promotes cancer metastasis; however, the currently
approved treatments do not target HA. Metastatic renal carcinoma (mRCC) is an incurable …

Comprehensive analysis reveals USP45 as a novel putative oncogene in pan-cancer

K Li, Q Wang, H Bian, Z Chen, H He, X Zhao… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background: Deubiquitinating enzymes specifically removes ubiquitin molecules from
ubiquitin-tagged target proteins, thereby inhibiting the degradation of target proteins and …

Co-expression of PADI isoforms during progenitor differentiation enables functional diversity

K Vikhe Patil, M Meijer, KHM Mak… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Protein isoforms, generated through alternative splicing or promoter usage, contribute to
tissue function. Here, we characterize the expression of predicted Padi3α and Padi3β …

RNA-binding proteins regulating the CD44 alternative splicing

D Maltseva, A Tonevitsky - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Alternative splicing is often deregulated in cancer, and cancer-specific isoform switches are
part of the oncogenic transformation of cells. Accumulating evidence indicates that isoforms …

Phenotypic Transitions the Processes Involved in Regulation of Growth and Proangiogenic Properties of Stem Cells, Cancer Stem Cells and Circulating Tumor Cells

M Kulus, M Farzaneh, A Bryja, M Zehtabi… - Stem Cell Reviews and …, 2024 - Springer
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a crucial process with significance in the
metastasis of malignant tumors. It is through the acquisition of plasticity that cancer cells …

Lenvatinib resistance mechanism and potential ways to conquer

W Bo, Y Chen - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Lenvatinib (LVN) has been appoved to treat advanced renal cell carcinoma, differentiated
thyroid carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma. Further other cancer types also have been …

The novel association of early apoptotic circulating tumor cells with treatment outcomes in breast cancer patients

ES Grigoryeva, LA Tashireva, VV Alifanov… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Stemness and epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity are widely studied in the circulating tumor
cells of breast cancer patients because the roles of both processes in tumor progression are …