Benchmark and integration of resources for the estimation of human transcription factor activities

L Garcia-Alonso, CH Holland, MM Ibrahim… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
The prediction of transcription factor (TF) activities from the gene expression of their targets
(ie, TF regulon) is becoming a widely used approach to characterize the functional status of …

Multiscale embedded gene co-expression network analysis

WM Song, B Zhang - PLoS computational biology, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Gene co-expression network analysis has been shown effective in identifying functional co-
expressed gene modules associated with complex human diseases. However, existing …

Systematic identification of mutations and copy number alterations associated with cancer patient prognosis

JC Smith, JM Sheltzer - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Successful treatment decisions in cancer depend on the accurate assessment of patient risk.
To improve our understanding of the molecular alterations that underlie deadly …

Computational models of melanoma

M Albrecht, P Lucarelli, D Kulms, T Sauter - Theoretical Biology and …, 2020 - Springer
Genes, proteins, or cells influence each other and consequently create patterns, which can
be increasingly better observed by experimental biology and medicine. Thereby, descriptive …

[HTML][HTML] Standardization of A375 human melanoma models on chicken embryo chorioallantoic membrane and Balb/c nude mice

S Avram, DE Coricovac, IZ Pavel… - Oncology …, 2017 - spandidos-publications.com
Cutaneous melanoma is a metastatic disease characterized by high resistance to treatment,
the incidence of which has alarmingly increased worldwide over the past years. A thorough …

Genomic and transcriptomic landscape of conjunctival melanoma

K Cisarova, M Folcher, I El Zaoui… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Conjunctival melanoma (CJM) is a rare but potentially lethal and highly-recurrent cancer of
the eye. Similar to cutaneous melanoma (CM), it originates from melanocytes. Unlike CM …

Downregulation of the ubiquitin ligase RNF125 underlies resistance of melanoma cells to BRAF inhibitors via JAK1 deregulation

H Kim, DT Frederick, MP Levesque, ZA Cooper, Y Feng… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Despite the remarkable clinical response of melanoma harboring BRAF mutations to BRAF
inhibitors (BRAFi), most tumors become resistant. Here, we identified the downregulation of …

BCL2L10 is overexpressed in melanoma downstream of STAT3 and promotes cisplatin and ABT-737 resistance

MJ Quezada, ME Picco, MB Villanueva, MV Castro… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary BCL2L10 is the sixth and less studied protein from the group of Bcl-2 anti-
apoptotic proteins. These proteins are important therapeutic targets since they convey …

A CDK2 activity signature predicts outcome in CDK2-low cancers

SR McCurdy, M Pacal, M Ahmad, R Bremner - Oncogene, 2017 - nature.com
The role of cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) in cancer is controversial. A major hurdle is
the availability of tools to easily assess its activity across many samples. Here, we introduce …

[HTML][HTML] Reprogramming human A375 amelanotic melanoma cells by catalase overexpression: Upregulation of antioxidant genes correlates with regression of …

C Bracalente, IL Ibañez, A Berenstein, C Notcovich… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are implicated in tumor transformation. The antioxidant
system (AOS) protects cells from ROS damage. However, it is also hijacked by cancers cells …