Network of mutually repressive metastasis regulators can promote cell heterogeneity and metastatic transitions

J Lee, J Lee, KS Farquhar, J Yun… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The sources and consequences of nongenetic variability in metastatic progression are
largely unknown. To address these questions, we characterized a transcriptional regulatory …

RKIP and HMGA2 regulate breast tumor survival and metastasis through lysyl oxidase and syndecan-2

M Sun, S Gomes, P Chen, CA Frankenberger… - Oncogene, 2014 - nature.com
Elucidating targets of physiological tumor metastasis suppressors can highlight key
signaling pathways leading to invasion and metastasis. To identify downstream targets of …

Signalling pathway for RKIP and Let‐7 regulates and predicts metastatic breast cancer

J Yun, CA Frankenberger, WL Kuo, MC Boelens… - The EMBO …, 2011 - embopress.org
Tumour metastasis suppressors are inhibitors of metastasis but their mechanisms of action
are generally not understood. We previously showed that the suppressor Raf kinase …

Raf kinase inhibitory protein (RKIP) as a metastasis suppressor: regulation of signaling networks in cancer

AE Yesilkanal, MR Rosner - Critical Reviews™ in Oncogenesis, 2014 - dl.begellhouse.com
Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases worldwide, accounting for about 8 million deaths a
year. For solid tumors, cancer patients die as a result of the metastatic spread of the tumor to …

Metastasis suppressors regulate the tumor microenvironment by blocking recruitment of prometastatic tumor-associated macrophages

C Frankenberger, D Rabe, R Bainer, D Sankarasharma… - Cancer research, 2015 - AACR
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients have the highest risk of recurrence and
metastasis. Because they cannot be treated with targeted therapies, and many do not …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting Raf kinase inhibitory protein regulation and function

AE Yesilkanal, MR Rosner - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Raf Kinase Inhibitory Protein (RKIP) is a highly conserved kinase inhibitor that functions as a
metastasis suppressor in a variety of cancers. Since RKIP can reprogram tumor cells to a …

[HTML][HTML] RKIP regulates CCL5 expression to inhibit breast cancer invasion and metastasis by controlling macrophage infiltration

I Datar, X Qiu, HZ Ma, M Yeung, S Aras, I de la Serna… - Oncotarget, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Accumulating evidence suggests that presence of macrophages in the tumor
microenvironment add to the invasive and tumor-promoting hallmarks of cancer cells by …

Snail is a repressor of RKIP transcription in metastatic prostate cancer cells

S Beach, H Tang, S Park, AS Dhillon, ET Keller… - Oncogene, 2008 - nature.com
Diminished expression of the metastasis suppressor protein RKIP was previously reported
in a number of cancers. The underlying mechanism remains unknown. Here, we show that …

Metastasis suppressor genes: a role for raf kinase inhibitor protein (RKIP)

ET Keller - Anti-Cancer Drugs, 2004 - journals.lww.com
The metastatic cascade is a complicated process that involves many steps from gain of the
metastatic phenotype in the primary tumor cells through establishment of macroscopic tumor …

Raf activation by Ras and promotion of cellular metastasis require phosphorylation of prohibitin in the raft domain of the plasma membrane

CF Chiu, MY Ho, JM Peng, SW Hung, WH Lee… - Oncogene, 2013 - nature.com
Prohibitin (PHB) is indispensable for Ras-induced Raf-1 activation, cell migration and
growth; however, the exact role of PHB in the molecular pathogenesis of cancer metastasis …