Paclitaxel's mechanistic and clinical effects on breast cancer

TM Abu Samaan, M Samec, A Liskova, P Kubatka… - Biomolecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Paclitaxel (PTX), the most widely used anticancer drug, is applied for the treatment of
various types of malignant diseases. Mechanisms of PTX action represent several ways in …

Mitosis is not a key target of microtubule agents in patient tumors

E Komlodi-Pasztor, D Sackett, J Wilkerson… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2011 - nature.com
Mitosis-specific agents have, to date, not been clinically successful. By contrast, microtubule-
targeting agents (MTAs) have a long record of success, usually attributed to the induction of …

[HTML][HTML] Patient-derived pancreatic cancer-on-a-chip recapitulates the tumor microenvironment

MR Haque, CR Wessel, DD Leary, C Wang… - Microsystems & …, 2022 - nature.com
The patient population suffering from pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) presents,
as a whole, with a high degree of molecular tumor heterogeneity. The heterogeneity of …

Paclitaxel-based chemotherapy targeting cancer stem cells from mono-to combination therapy

HM Nawara, SM Afify, G Hassan, MH Zahra, A Seno… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Paclitaxel (PTX) is a chemotherapeutical agent commonly used to treat several kinds of
cancer. PTX is known as a microtubule-targeting agent with a primary molecular mechanism …

Microtubules in 3D cell motility

BP Bouchet, A Akhmanova - Journal of cell science, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT Three-dimensional (3D) cell motility underlies essential processes, such as
embryonic development, tissue repair and immune surveillance, and is involved in cancer …

The functional role of voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1. 5 in metastatic breast cancer

Q Luo, T Wu, W Wu, G Chen, X Luo, L Jiang… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs), which are abnormally expressed in various types
of cancers such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, and cervical cancer, are …

Sodium accumulation in breast cancer predicts malignancy and treatment response

AD James, TK Leslie, JD Kaggie, L Wiggins… - British journal of …, 2022 - nature.com
Background Breast cancer remains a leading cause of death in women and novel imaging
biomarkers are urgently required. Here, we demonstrate the diagnostic and treatment …

Mesenchymal cell invasion requires cooperative regulation of persistent microtubule growth by SLAIN2 and CLASP1

BP Bouchet, I Noordstra, M van Amersfoort… - Developmental cell, 2016 - cell.com
Microtubules regulate signaling, trafficking, and cell mechanics, but the respective
contribution of these functions to cell morphogenesis and migration in 3D matrices is …

Vimentin promotes the aggressiveness of triple negative breast cancer cells surviving chemotherapeutic treatment

M Winter, S Meignan, P Völkel, PO Angrand, V Chopin… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tremendous data have been accumulated in the effort to understand chemoresistance of
triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). However, modifications in cancer cells surviving …

Tubulin: an example of targeted chemotherapy

J Seligmann, C Twelves - Future medicinal chemistry, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Anticancer drugs directed against the microtubule, including taxanes and vinca alkaloids,
have been the backbone of many chemotherapy regimes for decades. These drugs have …