[HTML][HTML] Two faces of vitamin C—antioxidative and pro-oxidative agent

J Kaźmierczak-Barańska, K Boguszewska… - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
Vitamin C has been known for decades. It is common in everyday use as an element of the
diet, supplementation, and a preservative. For years, research has been conducted to …

The EMT spectrum and therapeutic opportunities

DC Voon, RY Huang, RA Jackson… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Carcinomas are phenotypically arrayed along an epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT)
spectrum, a developmental program currently exploited to understand the acquisition of drug …

[PDF][PDF] Targeting CDK9 reactivates epigenetically silenced genes in cancer

H Zhang, S Pandey, M Travers, H Sun, G Morton… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Summary Cyclin-dependent kinase 9 (CDK9) promotes transcriptional elongation through
RNAPII pause release. We now report that CDK9 is also essential for maintaining gene …

[PDF][PDF] 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine marks sites of DNA damage and promotes genome stability

GR Kafer, X Li, T Horii, I Suetake, S Tajima, I Hatada… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is a DNA base created during active DNA demethylation by
the recently discovered TET enzymes. 5hmC has essential roles in gene expression and …

[HTML][HTML] Regression of gastric cancer by systemic injection of RNA nanoparticles carrying both ligand and siRNA

D Cui, C Zhang, B Liu, Y Shu, T Du, D Shu, K Wang… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Gastric cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. RNA
nanotechnology has recently emerged as an important field due to recent finding of its high …

MicroRNA‐191 acts as a tumor promoter by modulating the TET1–p53 pathway in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

H Li, ZQ Zhou, ZR Yang, DN Tong, J Guan, BJ Shi… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Current treatment of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) remains ineffective because
knowledge of ICC carcinogenesis is unclear. Increasing evidence suggests that microRNAs …

[HTML][HTML] Nutrition can help DNA repair in the case of aging

J Kaźmierczak-Barańska, K Boguszewska… - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
Micronutrients such as vitamins and trace elements are crucial for maintaining the health of
all organisms. Micronutrients are involved in every cellular/biochemical process. They play …

p53-suppressed oncogene TET1 prevents cellular aging in lung cancer

PT Filipczak, S Leng, CS Tellez, KC Do, MJ Grimes… - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
The role of transcriptional regulator ten-eleven translocation methylcytosine dioxygenease 1
(TET1) has not been well characterized in lung cancer. Here we show that TET1 is …

[HTML][HTML] Hypoxia switches TET1 from being tumor-suppressive to oncogenic

Q Yang, H Dang, J Liu, X Wang, J Wang, X Lan, M Ji… - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
The classical oxidizing enzymatic activity of Ten Eleven Translocation 1 (TET1) and its tumor
suppressor role are well known. Here, we find that high TET1 expression is associated with …

[PDF][PDF] Oncogenic EGFR represses the TET1 DNA demethylase to induce silencing of tumor suppressors in cancer cells

M Forloni, R Gupta, A Nagarajan, LS Sun, Y Dong… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Oncogene-induced DNA methylation-mediated transcriptional silencing of tumor
suppressors frequently occurs in cancer, but the mechanism and functional role of this …