Clinical epigenetics: seizing opportunities for translation

M Berdasco, M Esteller - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Biomarker discovery and validation are necessary for improving the prediction of clinical
outcomes and patient monitoring. Despite considerable interest in biomarker discovery and …

Targeting the cancer epigenome for therapy

PA Jones, JPJ Issa, S Baylin - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Next-generation sequencing has revealed that more than 50% of human cancers harbour
mutations in enzymes that are involved in chromatin organization. Tumour cells not only are …

The calcium–cancer signalling nexus

GR Monteith, N Prevarskaya… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The calcium signal is a powerful and multifaceted tool by which cells can achieve specific
outcomes. Cellular machinery important in tumour progression is often driven or influenced …

Targeting CDK9 reactivates epigenetically silenced genes in cancer

H Zhang, S Pandey, M Travers, H Sun, G Morton… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Summary Cyclin-dependent kinase 9 (CDK9) promotes transcriptional elongation through
RNAPII pause release. We now report that CDK9 is also essential for maintaining gene …

Anti-cancer agents in proliferation and cell death: the calcium connection

E Varghese, SM Samuel, Z Sadiq, P Kubatka… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Calcium (Ca2+) signaling and the modulation of intracellular calcium ([Ca2+] i) levels play
critical roles in several key processes that regulate cellular survival, growth, differentiation …

Calcium entry through TRPV1: a potential target for the regulation of proliferation and apoptosis in cancerous and healthy cells

K Zhai, A Liskova, P Kubatka, D Büsselberg - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Intracellular calcium (Ca2+) concentration ([Ca2+] i) is a key determinant of cell fate and is
implicated in carcinogenesis. Membrane ion channels are structures through which ions …

[HTML][HTML] The osteogenic niche is a calcium reservoir of bone micrometastases and confers unexpected therapeutic vulnerability

H Wang, L Tian, J Liu, A Goldstein, I Bado, W Zhang… - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
The fate of disseminated tumor cells is largely determined by microenvironment (ME) niche.
The osteogenic niche promotes cancer cell proliferation and bone metastasis progression …

DNA hypomethylating drugs in cancer therapy

T Sato, JPJ Issa, P Kropf - Cold Spring …, 2017 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Aberrant DNA methylation is a critically important modification in cancer cells, which,
through promoter and enhancer DNA methylation changes, use this mechanism to activate …

Calcium signaling and gene expression

BK Puri - Calcium Signaling, 2020 - Springer
Calcium signaling plays an important role in gene expression. At the transcriptional level,
this may underpin mammalian neuronal synaptic plasticity. Calcium influx into the …

Anticancer and immunogenic properties of cardiac glycosides

NFZ Schneider, C Cerella, CMO Simões, M Diederich - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Cardiac glycosides (CGs) are natural compounds widely used in the treatment of several
cardiac conditions and more recently have been recognized as potential antitumor …