HEK293 in cell biology and cancer research: phenotype, karyotype, tumorigenicity, and stress-induced genome-phenotype evolution

AA Stepanenko, VV Dmitrenko - Gene, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract 293 cell line (widely known as the Human Embryonic Kidney 293 cells) and its
derivatives were the most used cells after HeLa in cell biology studies and after CHO in …

Genome chaos: Creating new genomic information essential for cancer macroevolution

J Heng, HH Heng - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer research has traditionally focused on the characterization of individual molecular
mechanisms that can contribute to cancer. Due to the multiple levels of genomic and non …

Chromosomal instability (CIN): what it is and why it is crucial to cancer evolution

HH Heng, SW Bremer, JB Stevens, SD Horne… - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2013 - Springer
Results of various cancer genome sequencing projects have “unexpectedly” challenged the
framework of the current somatic gene mutation theory of cancer. The prevalence of diverse …

Functional materials for subcellular targeting strategies in cancer therapy: progress and prospects

Y Cheng, Z Qu, Q Jiang, T Xu, H Zheng, P Ye… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapies have made significant progress in cancer treatment.
However, tumor adjuvant therapy still faces challenges due to the intrinsic heterogeneity of …

Genome chaos: survival strategy during crisis

G Liu, J Stevens, S Horne, B Abdallah, K Ye, S Bremer… - Cell Cycle, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Genome chaos, a process of complex, rapid genome re-organization, results in the
formation of chaotic genomes, which is followed by the potential to establish stable …

Colon cancer transcriptome

K Mokhtari, M Peymani, M Rashidi… - Progress in biophysics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the last four decades, methodological innovations have continuously changed
transcriptome profiling. It is now feasible to sequence and quantify the transcriptional outputs …

Evolutionary mechanism unifies the hallmarks of cancer

SD Horne, SA Pollick, HHQ Heng - International Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The basis for the gene mutation theory of cancer that dominates current molecular cancer
research consists of: the belief that gene‐level aberrations such as mutations are the main …

Two-phased evolution: Genome chaos-mediated information creation and maintenance

J Heng, HH Heng - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Cancer is traditionally labeled a “cellular growth problem.” However, it is fundamentally an
issue of macroevolution where new systems emerge from tissue by breaking various …

What is karyotype coding and why is genomic topology important for cancer and evolution?

CJ Ye, L Stilgenbauer, A Moy, G Liu, HH Heng - Frontiers in Genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
While the importance of chromosomal/nuclear variations vs. gene mutations in diseases is
becoming more appreciated, less is known about its genomic basis. Traditionally …

The phosphorylation status of Drp1-Ser637 by PKA in mitochondrial fission modulates mitophagy via PINK1/Parkin to exert multipolar spindles assembly during …

HJ Ko, CY Tsai, SJ Chiou, YL Lai, CH Wang, JT Cheng… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mitochondrial fission and fusion cycles are integrated with cell cycle progression. Here we
first re-visited how mitochondrial ETC inhibition disturbed mitosis progression, resulting in …