Statins: a repurposed drug to fight cancer

W Jiang, JW Hu, XR He, WL Jin, XY He - Journal of Experimental & …, 2021 - Springer
As competitive HMG-CoA reductase (HMGCR) inhibitors, statins not only reduce cholesterol
and improve cardiovascular risk, but also exhibit pleiotropic effects that are independent of …

Cholesterol metabolism in cancer: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

B Huang, B Song, C Xu - Nature metabolism, 2020 - nature.com
Cholesterol metabolism produces essential membrane components as well as metabolites
with a variety of biological functions. In the tumour microenvironment, cell-intrinsic and cell …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting the untargetable KRAS in cancer therapy

P Liu, Y Wang, X Li - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2019 - Elsevier
RAS is one of the most well-known proto-oncogenes. Its gain-of-function mutations occur in
approximately 30% of all human cancers. As the most frequently mutated RAS isoform …

KRAS oncogene in non-small cell lung cancer: clinical perspectives on the treatment of an old target

M Román, I Baraibar, I López, E Nadal, C Rolfo… - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Lung neoplasms are the leading cause of death by cancer worldwide. Non-small cell lung
cancer (NSCLC) constitutes more than 80% of all lung malignancies and the majority of …

Lipid metabolism in cancer

CR Santos, A Schulze - The FEBS journal, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Lipids form a diverse group of water‐insoluble molecules that include triacylglycerides,
phosphoglycerides, sterols and sphingolipids. They play several important roles at cellular …

Bisphosphonates: the first 40 years

RGG Russell - Bone, 2011 - Elsevier
The first full publications on the biological effects of the diphosphonates, later renamed
bisphosphonates, appeared in 1969, so it is timely after 40 years to review the history of their …

[HTML][HTML] Pleiotropic effects of statins: A focus on cancer

M Ahmadi, S Amiri, S Pecic, F Machaj, J Rosik… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The statin drugs ('statins') potently inhibit hydroxymethylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-
CoA) reductase by competitively blocking the active site of the enzyme. Statins decrease de …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer metabolic reprogramming: importance, main features, and potentials for precise targeted anti-cancer therapies

LM Phan, SCJ Yeung, MH Lee - Cancer biology & medicine, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer cells are well documented to rewire their metabolism and energy production
networks to support and enable rapid proliferation, continuous growth, survival in harsh …

Identification of Genes Upregulated in ALK-Positive and EGFR/KRAS/ALK-Negative Lung Adenocarcinomas

H Okayama, T Kohno, Y Ishii, Y Shimada, K Shiraishi… - Cancer research, 2012 - AACR
Activation of the EGFR, KRAS, and ALK oncogenes defines 3 different pathways of
molecular pathogenesis in lung adenocarcinoma. However, many tumors lack activation of …

Caveolin-1 selectively regulates microRNA sorting into microvesicles after noxious stimuli

H Lee, C Li, Y Zhang, D Zhang, LE Otterbein… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - rupress.org
Emerging evidence suggests that extracellular vesicle (EV)–containing miRNAs mediate
intercellular communications in response to noxious stimuli. It remains unclear how a cell …