Taxanes in cancer treatment: Activity, chemoresistance and its overcoming

L Mosca, A Ilari, F Fazi, YG Assaraf, G Colotti - Drug Resistance Updates, 2021 - Elsevier
Since 1984, when paclitaxel was approved by the FDA for the treatment of advanced
ovarian carcinoma, taxanes have been widely used as microtubule-targeting antitumor …

Microtubule-binding agents: a dynamic field of cancer therapeutics

C Dumontet, MA Jordan - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2010 - nature.com
Microtubules are dynamic filamentous cytoskeletal proteins composed of tubulin and are an
important therapeutic target in tumour cells. Agents that bind to microtubules have been part …

Microtubules and resistance to tubulin-binding agents

M Kavallaris - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2010 - nature.com
Microtubules are dynamic structures composed of α–β-tubulin heterodimers that are
essential in cell division and are important targets for cancer drugs. Mutations in β-tubulin …

[HTML][HTML] Role of microRNA/epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition axis in the metastasis of bladder cancer

M Ashrafizadeh, K Hushmandi, M Hashemi, ME Akbari… - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Bladder cancer (BC) is the 11th most common diagnosed cancer, and a number of factors
including environmental and genetic ones participate in BC development. Metastasis of BC …

microRNA‐101 is a potent inhibitor of autophagy

LB Frankel, J Wen, M Lees, M Høyer‐Hansen… - The EMBO …, 2011 - embopress.org
Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism of cellular self‐digestion in which
proteins and organelles are degraded through delivery to lysosomes. Defects in this process …

MicroRNAs transfer from human macrophages to hepato-carcinoma cells and inhibit proliferation

A Aucher, D Rudnicka, DM Davis - The Journal of Immunology, 2013 - journals.aai.org
Recent research has indicated a new mode of intercellular communication facilitated by the
movement of RNA between cells. There is evidence that RNA can transfer between cells in a …

microRNA-29c and microRNA-223 down-regulation has in vivo significance in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and improves disease risk stratification

B Stamatopoulos, N Meuleman… - Blood, The Journal …, 2009 - ashpublications.org
Aberrant expression of microRNAs has been recently associated with chronic lymphocytic
leukemia (CLL) outcome. Although disease evolution can be predicted by several …

RNA interference and cancer therapy

Z Wang, DD Rao, N Senzer, J Nemunaitis - Pharmaceutical research, 2011 - Springer
Since its discovery in 1998, RNA interference (RNAi) has revolutionized basic and clinical
research. Small RNAs, including small interfering RNA (siRNA), short hairpin RNA (shRNA) …

Gain-of-function mutant p53 downregulates miR-223 contributing to chemoresistance of cultured tumor cells

S Masciarelli, G Fontemaggi, S Di Agostino, S Donzelli… - Oncogene, 2014 - nature.com
Mutant p53 proteins are expressed at high frequency in human tumors and are associated
with poor clinical prognosis and resistance to chemotherapeutic treatments. Here we show …

MicroRNAs in autophagy and their emerging roles in crosstalk with apoptosis

J Xu, Y Wang, X Tan, H Jing - Autophagy, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Macroautophagy (hereafter referred to as autophagy) is an evolutionarily conserved self-
degradative process, which involves the regular turnover of cellular components via …