Killing SCLC: insights into how to target a shapeshifting tumor

KD Sutherland, AS Ireland, TG Oliver - Genes & Development, 2022 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a rapidly growing, highly metastatic, and relatively immune-
cold lung cancer subtype. Historically viewed in the laboratory and clinic as a single …

Hippo pathway dysregulation in gastric cancer: from Helicobacter pylori infection to tumor promotion and progression

B Messina, F Lo Sardo, S Scalera, L Memeo… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
The Hippo pathway plays a critical role for balancing proliferation and differentiation, thus
regulating tissue homeostasis. The pathway acts through a kinase cascade whose final …

The role of the receptor tyrosine kinase Axl in carcinogenesis and development of therapeutic resistance: An overview of molecular mechanisms and future …

M Wium, AF Ajayi-Smith, JD Paccez, LF Zerbini - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The tyrosine kinase receptor Axl is an oncogene that promotes cancer
development by increasing proliferation, survival, invasion, and migration in cancer cells. Axl …

Emerging Principles in the Transcriptional Control by YAP and TAZ

A Lopez-Hernandez, S Sberna, S Campaner - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary YAP and TAZ are transcriptional cofactors that integrate several upstream
signals to generate context-dependent transcriptional responses. This requires extensive …

Landscape of enhancer disruption and functional screen in melanoma cells

Z Wang, M Luo, Q Liang, K Zhao, Y Hu, W Wang… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background The high mutation rate throughout the entire melanoma genome presents a
major challenge in stratifying true driver events from the background mutations. Numerous …

Targeting the IL-6–Yap–Snail signalling axis in synovial fibroblasts ameliorates inflammatory arthritis

RA Symons, F Colella, FL Collins, AJ Rafipay… - Annals of the …, 2022 - ard.bmj.com
Objective We aimed to understand the role of the transcriptional co-factor Yes-associated
protein (Yap) in the molecular pathway underpinning the pathogenic transformation of …

Melanoma plasticity: promoter of metastasis and resistance to therapy

F Huang, F Santinon, RE Flores González… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. Although targeted therapies and
immunotherapies have revolutionized the treatment of metastatic melanoma, most patients …

The AhR‐SRC axis as a therapeutic vulnerability in BRAFi‐resistant melanoma

A Paris, N Tardif, FM Baietti, C Berra… - EMBO Molecular …, 2022 - embopress.org
The nongenetic mechanisms required to control tumor phenotypic plasticity and shape drug‐
resistance remain unclear. We show here that the Aryl hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR) …

Targeting the Hippo/YAP/TAZ signalling pathway: Novel opportunities for therapeutic interventions into skin cancers

A Howard, J Bojko, B Flynn, S Bowen… - Experimental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Skin cancers are by far the most frequently diagnosed human cancers. The closely related
transcriptional co‐regulator proteins YAP and TAZ (WWTR1) have emerged as important …

Alternative Wnt-signaling axis leads to a break of oncogene-induced senescence

V Kluge, M Kappelmann-Fenzl, S Fischer… - Cell Death & …, 2024 - nature.com
Oncogene-induced senescence (OIS) is an important process that suppresses tumor
development, but the molecular mechanisms of OIS are still under investigation. It is known …