Recent progress on liver kinase B1 (LKB1): expression, regulation, downstream signaling and cancer suppressive function

RY Gan, HB Li - International journal of molecular sciences, 2014 - mdpi.com
Liver kinase B1 (LKB1), known as a serine/threonine kinase, has been identified as a critical
cancer suppressor in many cancer cells. It is a master upstream kinase of 13 AMP-activated …

Ptbp2 controls an alternative splicing network required for cell communication during spermatogenesis

MM Hannigan, LL Zagore, DD Licatalosi - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Alternative splicing has essential roles in development. Remarkably, spermatogenic cells
express more alternatively spliced RNAs compared to most whole tissues; however …

Age-dependent effects in fathead minnows from the anti-diabetic drug metformin

J Crago, C Bui, S Grewal, D Schlenk - General and comparative …, 2016 - Elsevier
The anti-diabetic drug metformin is thought to be the pharmaceutical most deposited into the
aquatic environment by mass at up to 6 tons per year from individual WWTPs in urban areas …

4-Nonylphenol induces autophagy and attenuates mTOR-p70S6K/4EBP1 signaling by modulating AMPK activation in Sertoli cells

P Duan, C Hu, C Quan, T Yu, W Huang, W Chen… - Toxicology letters, 2017 - Elsevier
The estrogenic chemical 4-nonylphenol (NP) is known to impair testicular devolopment and
spermatogenesis in rodents. The objective of this study was to explore the effects of NP on …

UHRF1 establishes crosstalk between somatic and germ cells in male reproduction

Y Wu, P Duan, Y Wen, J Zhang, X Wang, J Dong… - Cell death & …, 2022 - nature.com
Sertoli cells (SCs) support and nourish germ cells (GCs) through their crosstalk during
spermatogenesis. However, the underlying epigenetic mechanism that ensures SCs' …

Targeted disruption of miR-17-92 impairs mouse spermatogenesis by activating mTOR signaling pathway

R Xie, X Lin, T Du, K Xu, H Shen, F Wei, W Hao, T Lin… - Medicine, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Abstract The miR-17-92 cluster and its 6 different mature microRNAs, including miR-17, miR-
18a, miR-19a, miR-20a, miR-19b-1, and miR-92a, play important roles in embryo …

Loss of LKB1 and PTEN tumor suppressor genes in the ovarian surface epithelium induces papillary serous ovarian cancer

PS Tanwar, G Mohapatra, S Chiang, DA Engler… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Epithelial ovarian cancer presents mostly with serous, endometrioid or mucinous histology
but is treated as a single disease. The development of histotype-specific therapy has been …

[PDF][PDF] The PI3K/AKT signaling pathway: How does it regulate development of Sertoli cells and spermatogenic cells?

KQ Chen, BH Wei, SL Hao, WX Yang - 2022 - hh.um.es
The PI3K/AKT signaling pathway is one of the most crucial regulatory mechanisms in animal
cells, which can mainly regulate proliferation, survival and anti-apoptosis in cell lines. In the …

Targeting the LKB1 tumor suppressor

RX Zhao, ZX Xu - Current drug targets, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
LKB1 (also known as serine-threonine kinase 11, STK11) is a tumor suppressor, which is
mutated or deleted in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) and in a variety of cancers …

Bisphenol S perturbs Sertoli cell junctions in male rats via alterations in cytoskeletal organization mediated by an imbalance between mTORC1 and mTORC2

H Wu, Y Wei, Y Zhou, C Long, Y Hong, Y Fu… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bisphenol S (BPS) is now used as an alternative of bisphenol A (BPA), but has been
implicated in male reproductive dysfunction—including diminished sperm number and …