Ubiquitin ligases in oncogenic transformation and cancer therapy

D Senft, J Qi, ZA Ronai - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
The cellular response to external stress signals and DNA damage depends on the activity of
ubiquitin ligases (E3s), which regulate numerous cellular processes, including homeostasis …

SETDB1 links the meiotic DNA damage response to sex chromosome silencing in mice

T Hirota, P Blakeley, MN Sangrithi, SK Mahadevaiah… - Developmental cell, 2018 - cell.com
Meiotic synapsis and recombination ensure correct homologous segregation and genetic
diversity. Asynapsed homologs are transcriptionally inactivated by meiotic silencing, which …

BRCA1-dependent transcriptional regulation: implication in tissue-specific tumor suppression

X Zhang, R Li - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Germ-line mutations in breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1) predominantly
predispose women to breast and ovarian cancers. BRCA1 is best known for its functions in …

Gene prioritization, communality analysis, networking and metabolic integrated pathway to better understand breast cancer pathogenesis

A López-Cortés, C Paz-y-Miño, A Cabrera-Andrade… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Consensus strategy was proved to be highly efficient in the recognition of gene-disease
association. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to apply theoretical approaches …

[HTML][HTML] MiR-29b-1-5p is altered in BRCA1 mutant tumours and is a biomarker in basal-like breast cancer

MJG Milevskiy, GK Sandhu, A Wronski, D Korbie… - Oncotarget, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Depletion of BRCA1 protein in mouse mammary glands results in defects in lactational
development and increased susceptibility to mammary cancer. Extensive work has focussed …

Matricellular CCN6 (WISP3) protein: a tumor suppressor for mammary metaplastic carcinomas

MN Tran, CG Kleer - Journal of cell communication and signaling, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Located at 6q22–23, Ccn6 (WISP3) encodes for a matrix-associated protein of the
CCN family, characterized by regulatory, rather than structural, roles in development and …

[HTML][HTML] BRCA1 and BRCA2 tumor suppressors in neural crest cells are essential for craniofacial bone development

K Kitami, M Kitami, M Kaku, B Wang, Y Komatsu - PLoS genetics, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Craniofacial abnormalities, including facial skeletal defects, comprise approximately one-
third of all birth defects in humans. Since most bones in the face derive from cranial neural …

[HTML][HTML] Induced Cre-mediated knockdown of Brca1 in skeletal muscle reduces mitochondrial respiration and prevents glucose intolerance in adult mice on a high-fat …

KC Jackson, MD Tarpey, AP Valencia, MR Iñigo… - The FASEB …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein (Brca1) is a regulator of DNA repair in
mammary gland cells; however, recent cell culture evidence suggests that Brca1 influences …

NF-κB at the Crossroads of Normal Mammary Gland Biology and the Pathogenesis and Prevention of BRCA1-Mutated Breast Cancer

A Sau, MA Cabrita, MAC Pratt - Cancer Prevention Research, 2018 - AACR
Recent studies have shown that progesterone receptor (PR)–expressing cells respond to
progesterone in part through the induction of the receptor activator of NF-κB ligand (RANKL) …

Evidence of Intertissue Differences in the DNA Damage Response and the Pro-oncogenic Role of NF-κB in Mice with Disengaged BRCA1–PALB2 Interaction

AH Mahdi, Y Huo, Y Tan, S Simhadri, G Vincelli, J Gao… - Cancer research, 2018 - AACR
Abstract The BRCA1–PALB2–BRCA2 axis plays an essential role in DNA homologous
recombination repair, defect in which drives genome instability and cancer development …