The chemokine system and cancer

FR Balkwill - The Journal of pathology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Chemokines (chemo‐attractant cytokines) are a group of small proteins that act together with
their cell surface receptors, in development, normal physiology and immune responses, to …

Thyroid carcinoma: phenotypic features, underlying biology and potential relevance for targeting therapy

J Hu, IJ Yuan, S Mirshahidi, A Simental, SC Lee… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Thyroid carcinoma consists a group of phenotypically heterogeneous cancers. Recent
advances in biological technologies have been advancing the delineation of genetic …

Crk and CrkL adaptor proteins: networks for physiological and pathological signaling

RB Birge, C Kalodimos, F Inagaki, S Tanaka - Cell Communication and …, 2009 - Springer
Abstract The Crk adaptor proteins (Crk and CrkL) constitute an integral part of a network of
essential signal transduction pathways in humans and other organisms that act as major …

Exogenous mitochondrial transfer and endogenous mitochondrial fission facilitate AML resistance to OxPhos inhibition

K Saito, Q Zhang, H Yang, K Yamatani, T Ai… - Blood …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells are highly dependent on oxidative phosphorylation
(OxPhos) for survival, and they continually adapt to fluctuations in nutrient and oxygen …

PD-1 blockade delays tumor growth by inhibiting an intrinsic SHP2/Ras/MAPK signalling in thyroid cancer cells

F Liotti, N Kumar, N Prevete, M Marotta… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
Background The programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) receptor and its ligands PD-L1 and PD-L2
are immune checkpoints that suppress anti-cancer immunity. Typically, cancer cells express …

EPAC proteins transduce diverse cellular actions of cAMP

G Borland, BO Smith… - British journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
It has now been over 10 years since efforts to completely understand the signalling actions
of cAMP (3′‐5′‐cyclic adenosine monophosphate) led to the discovery of exchange …

Amplification of CRKL Induces Transformation and Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Inhibitor Resistance in Human Non–Small Cell Lung Cancers

HW Cheung, J Du, JS Boehm, F He, BA Weir, X Wang… - Cancer discovery, 2011 - AACR
We previously identified a region of recurrent amplification on chromosome 22q11. 21 in a
subset of primary lung adenocarcinomas. Here we show that CRKL, encoding for an adaptor …

Downregulation of Rap1GAP through epigenetic silencing and loss of heterozygosity promotes invasion and progression of thyroid tumors

H Zuo, M Gandhi, MM Edreira, D Hochbaum… - Cancer Research, 2010 - AACR
Thyroid cancer is the most common type of endocrine malignancy, encompassing tumors
with various levels of invasive growth and aggressiveness. Rap1GAP, a Rap1 GTPase …

Epac, in synergy with cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA), is required for cAMP-mediated mitogenesis

D Hochbaum, K Hong, G Barila, F Ribeiro-Neto… - Journal of Biological …, 2008 - ASBMB
cAMP stimulates proliferation in many cell types. For many years, cAMP-dependent protein
kinase (PKA) represented the only known cAMP effector. PKA, however, does not fully mimic …

CCDC6-RET fusion protein regulates Ras/MAPK signaling through the fusion-GRB2-SHC1 signal niche

T Qiu, Y Kong, G Wei, K Sun, R Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Rearranged during transfection (RET) rearrangement oncoprotein-mediated Ras/MAPK
signaling cascade is constitutively activated in cancers. Here, we demonstrate a unique …