RNA in cancer

GJ Goodall, VO Wickramasinghe - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
While the processing of mRNA is essential for gene expression, recent findings have
highlighted that RNA processing is systematically altered in cancer. Mutations in RNA …

Non-redundant functions of EMT transcription factors

MP Stemmler, RL Eccles, S Brabletz, T Brabletz - Nature cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a crucial embryonic programme that is executed
by various EMT transcription factors (EMT-TFs) and is aberrantly activated in cancer and …

MicroRNA therapeutics: towards a new era for the management of cancer and other diseases

R Rupaimoole, FJ Slack - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2017 - nature.com
In just over two decades since the discovery of the first microRNA (miRNA), the field of
miRNA biology has expanded considerably. Insights into the roles of miRNAs in …

Advances in hypoxia-inducible factor biology

H Choudhry, AL Harris - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
Summary Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF), a central regulator for detecting and adapting to
cellular oxygen levels, transcriptionally activates genes modulating oxygen homeostasis …

An epigenetic role of mitochondria in cancer

Y Liu, C Chen, X Wang, Y Sun, J Zhang, J Chen, Y Shi - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mitochondria are not only the main energy supplier but are also the cell metabolic center
regulating multiple key metaborates that play pivotal roles in epigenetics regulation. These …

MicroRNA biogenesis pathways in cancer

S Lin, RI Gregory - Nature reviews cancer, 2015 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are critical regulators of gene expression. Amplification and
overexpression of individual'oncomiRs' or genetic loss of tumour suppressor miRNAs are …

Ductal pancreatic cancer modeling and drug screening using human pluripotent stem cell–and patient-derived tumor organoids

L Huang, A Holtzinger, I Jagan, M BeGora, I Lohse… - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
There are few in vitro models of exocrine pancreas development and primary human
pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC). We establish three-dimensional culture conditions to …

miRNA deregulation in cancer cells and the tumor microenvironment

R Rupaimoole, GA Calin, G Lopez-Berestein, AK Sood - Cancer discovery, 2016 - AACR
Abstract miRNAs are a key component of the noncoding RNA family. The underlying
mechanisms involved in the interplay between the tumor microenvironment and cancer cells …

Pathophysiological implications of hypoxia in human diseases

PS Chen, WT Chiu, PL Hsu, SC Lin, IC Peng… - Journal of biomedical …, 2020 - Springer
Oxygen is essentially required by most eukaryotic organisms as a scavenger to remove
harmful electron and hydrogen ions or as a critical substrate to ensure the proper execution …

Zeb1-induced metabolic reprogramming of glycolysis is essential for macrophage polarization in breast cancer

H Jiang, H Wei, H Wang, Z Wang, J Li, Y Ou… - Cell Death & …, 2022 - nature.com
Aerobic glycolysis (the Warburg effect) has been demonstrated to facilitate tumor
progression by producing lactate, which has important roles as a proinflammatory and …