Breast tumor heterogeneity: source of fitness, hurdle for therapy

S Koren, M Bentires-Alj - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Tumor heterogeneity impinges on prognosis, response to therapy, and metastasis. As such,
heterogeneity is one of the most important and clinically relevant areas of cancer research …

Epithelial‐mesenchymal transition spectrum quantification and its efficacy in deciphering survival and drug responses of cancer patients

TZ Tan, QH Miow, Y Miki, T Noda, S Mori… - EMBO molecular …, 2014 - embopress.org
Epithelial‐mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a reversible and dynamic process hypothesized
to be co‐opted by carcinoma during invasion and metastasis. Yet, there is still no …

Breast cancer: current developments in molecular approaches to diagnosis and treatment

JA de la Mare, L Contu, MC Hunter… - Recent patents on …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Due to the high heterogeneity of breast cancers, numerous recent patents describe
improved methods of detection and classification which promise better patient prognosis …

Evidence for accelerated aging in mammary epithelia of women carrying germline BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations

SF Shalabi, M Miyano, RW Sayaman, JC Lopez… - Nature aging, 2021 - nature.com
During aging in the human mammary gland, luminal epithelial cells lose lineage fidelity by
expressing markers normally expressed in myoepithelial cells. We hypothesize that loss of …

c-Jun N-terminal kinase promotes stem cell phenotype in triple-negative breast cancer through upregulation of Notch1 via activation of c-Jun

X Xie, TS Kaoud, R Edupuganti, T Zhang, T Kogawa… - Oncogene, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) plays a vital role in malignant transformation of
different cancers, and JNK is highly activated in basal-like triple-negative breast cancer …

Identification of distinct breast cancer stem cell populations based on single-cell analyses of functionally enriched stem and progenitor pools

N Akrap, D Andersson, E Bom, P Gregersson… - Stem cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
The identification of breast cancer cell subpopulations featuring truly malignant stem cell
qualities is a challenge due to the complexity of the disease and lack of general markers. By …

EC359: a first-in-class small-molecule inhibitor for targeting oncogenic LIFR signaling in triple-negative breast cancer

S Viswanadhapalli, Y Luo, GR Sareddy… - Molecular cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Leukemia inhibitory factor receptor (LIFR) and its ligand LIF play a critical role in cancer
progression, metastasis, stem cell maintenance, and therapy resistance. Here, we describe …

Astrocyte-induced Cdk5 expedites breast cancer brain metastasis by suppressing MHC-I expression to evade immune recognition

AE Yuzhalin, FJ Lowery, Y Saito, X Yuan, J Yao… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Brain metastases (BrMs) evade the immune response to develop in the brain, yet the
mechanisms of BrM immune evasion remains unclear. This study shows that brain …

[HTML][HTML] Cripto-1 as a novel therapeutic target for triple negative breast cancer

NP Castro, ND Fedorova-Abrams, AS Merchant… - Oncotarget, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) presents the poorest prognosis among the breast
cancer subtypes and no current standard therapy. Here, we performed an in-depth …

Nucleosome positioning and histone modifications define relationships between regulatory elements and nearby gene expression in breast epithelial cells

SK Rhie, DJ Hazelett, SG Coetzee, C Yan… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background The precise nature of how cell type specific chromatin structures at enhancer
sites affect gene expression is largely unknown. Here we identified cell type specific …