Essential gene profiles in breast, pancreatic, and ovarian cancer cells

R Marcotte, KR Brown, F Suarez, A Sayad… - Cancer discovery, 2012 - AACR
Genomic analyses are yielding a host of new information on the multiple genetic
abnormalities associated with specific types of cancer. A comprehensive description of …

The Protein Scaffolding Functions of Polyphosphate

J Guan, U Jakob - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Inorganic polyphosphate (polyP), the first high-energy compound on earth, defies its
extreme compositional and structural simplicity with an astoundingly wide array of biological …

Oncogenic signaling in tumorigenesis and applications of siRNA nanotherapeutics in breast cancer

NI Kamaruzman, NA Aziz, CL Poh, EH Chowdhury - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Overexpression of oncogenes and cross-talks of the oncoproteins-regulated signaling
cascades with other intracellular pathways in breast cancer could lead to massive abnormal …

Identification of genes with abnormal expression changes in acute myeloid leukemia

DL Stirewalt, S Meshinchi, KJ Kopecky… - Genes …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is one of the most common and deadly forms of
hematopoietic malignancies. We hypothesized that microarray studies could identify …

Survival in patients with high-risk prostate cancer is predicted by miR-221, which regulates proliferation, apoptosis, and invasion of prostate cancer cells by inhibiting …

B Kneitz, M Krebs, C Kalogirou, M Schubert, S Joniau… - Cancer research, 2014 - AACR
A lack of reliably informative biomarkers to distinguish indolent and lethal prostate cancer is
one reason this disease is overtreated. miR-221 has been suggested as a biomarker in high …

Human metastasis regulator protein H-prune is a short-chain exopolyphosphatase

M Tammenkoski, K Koivula, E Cusanelli, M Zollo… - Biochemistry, 2008 - ACS Publications
The DHH superfamily human protein h-prune, a binding partner of the metastasis
suppressor nm23-H1, is frequently overexpressed in metastatic cancers. From an …

Glycogen synthase kinase 3 and h-prune regulate cell migration by modulating focal adhesions

T Kobayashi, S Hino, N Oue, T Asahara… - … and cellular biology, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Abstract h-prune, which has been suggested to be involved in cell migration, was identified
as a glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3)-binding protein. Treatment of cultured cells with …

Clinical-translational approaches to the Nm23-H1 metastasis suppressor

PS Steeg, CE Horak, KD Miller - Clinical Cancer Research, 2008 - AACR
Nm23-H1 significantly reduces metastasis without effects on primary tumor size and was the
first discovered metastasis suppressor gene. At least three mechanisms are thought to …

PRUNE1 and NME/NDPK family proteins influence energy metabolism and signaling in cancer metastases

V Ferrucci, S Lomada, T Wieland, M Zollo - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2024 - Springer
We describe here the molecular basis of the complex formation of PRUNE1 with the tumor
metastasis suppressors NME1 and NME2, two isoforms appertaining to the nucleoside …

The promises of lysine polyphosphorylation as a regulatory modification in mammals are tempered by conceptual and technical challenges

K Baijal, M Downey - Bioessays, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Polyphosphate (polyP) is a ubiquitous biomolecule thought to be present in all cells on
Earth. PolyP is deceivingly simple, consisting of repeated units of inorganic phosphates …