Melanoma: from mutations to medicine

H Tsao, L Chin, LA Garraway… - Genes & …, 2012 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Melanoma is often considered one of the most aggressive and treatment-resistant human
cancers. It is a disease that, due to the presence of melanin pigment, was accurately …

Apoptosis and melanoma chemoresistance

MS Soengas, SW Lowe - Oncogene, 2003 - nature.com
Melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer and is notoriously resistant to all
current modalities of cancer therapy. A large set of genetic, functional and biochemical …

[HTML][HTML] Prebiotic-induced anti-tumor immunity attenuates tumor growth

Y Li, L Elmén, I Segota, Y Xian, R Tinoco, Y Feng… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Growing evidence supports the importance of gut microbiota in the control of tumor growth
and response to therapy. Here, we select prebiotics that can enrich bacterial taxa that …

[HTML][HTML] Infected erythrocyte-derived extracellular vesicles alter vascular function via regulatory Ago2-miRNA complexes in malaria

PY Mantel, D Hjelmqvist, M Walch… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Malaria remains one of the greatest public health challenges worldwide, particularly in sub-
Saharan Africa. The clinical outcome of individuals infected with Plasmodium falciparum …

Uses for JNK: the many and varied substrates of the c-Jun N-terminal kinases

MA Bogoyevitch, B Kobe - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
The c-Jun N-terminal kinases (JNKs) are members of a larger group of serine/threonine
(Ser/Thr) protein kinases from the mitogen-activated protein kinase family. JNKs were …

Malignant melanoma: genetics and therapeutics in the genomic era

L Chin, LA Garraway, DE Fisher - Genes & development, 2006 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Cell for cell, probably no human cancer is as aggressive as melanoma. It is among a handful
of cancers whose dimensions are reported in millimeters. Tumor thickness approaching 4 …

siRNA therapeutics: big potential from small RNAs

RCC Ryther, AS Flynt, JA Phillips, JG Patton - Gene therapy, 2005 - nature.com
RNA interference (RNAi) is now an umbrella term referring to post-transcriptional gene
silencing mediated by either degradation or translation arrest of target RNA. This process is …

[HTML][HTML] Overexpression of Akt converts radial growth melanoma to vertical growth melanoma

B Govindarajan, JE Sligh, BJ Vincent… - The Journal of …, 2007 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Melanoma is the cancer with the highest increase in incidence, and transformation of radial
growth to vertical growth (ie, noninvasive to invasive) melanoma is required for invasive …

[HTML][HTML] ATF2, a paradigm of the multifaceted regulation of transcription factors in biology and disease

G Watson, AR Ze'ev, E Lau - Pharmacological research, 2017 - Elsevier
Stringent transcriptional regulation is crucial for normal cellular biology and organismal
development. Perturbations in the proper regulation of transcription factors can result in …

Translational reprogramming marks adaptation to asparagine restriction in cancer

G Pathria, JS Lee, E Hasnis, K Tandoc, DA Scott… - Nature cell …, 2019 - nature.com
While amino acid restriction remains an attractive strategy for cancer therapy, metabolic
adaptations limit its effectiveness. Here we demonstrate a role of translational …