Targeting Rho GTPase signaling networks in cancer

NS Clayton, AJ Ridley - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
As key regulators of cytoskeletal dynamics, Rho GTPases coordinate a wide range of
cellular processes, including cell polarity, cell migration, and cell cycle progression. The …

Calcium signaling: breast cancer's approach to manipulation of cellular circuitry

SJP Pratt, E Hernández-Ochoa, SS Martin - Biophysical Reviews, 2020 - Springer
Calcium is a versatile element that participates in cell signaling for a wide range of cell
processes such as death, cell cycle, division, migration, invasion, metabolism, differentiation …

PAICS, a purine nucleotide metabolic enzyme, is involved in tumor growth and the metastasis of colorectal cancer

S Agarwal, BVSK Chakravarthi, M Behring, HG Kim… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
The identification of colorectal cancer (CRC) molecular targets is needed for the
development of drugs that improve patient survival. We investigated the functional role of …

Long non-coding RNA MIAT regulates blood tumor barrier permeability by functioning as a competing endogenous RNA

J He, Y Xue, Q Wang, X Zhou, L Liu, T Zhang… - Cell Death & …, 2020 - nature.com
Blood–tumor barrier (BTB) presents a major obstacle to brain drug delivery. Therefore, it is
urgent to enhance BTB permeability for the treatment of glioma. In this study, we …

Polarity proteins in oncogenesis

M Fomicheva, EM Tross, IG Macara - Current opinion in cell biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Most human cancers arise from epithelial tissues, which are apical-basally polarized and
possess intercellular adhesive junctions. Epithelial cells grow to characteristic densities …

[HTML][HTML] Relationship between apical junction proteins, gene expression and cancer

L González-Mariscal, J Miranda… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
The apical junctional complex (AJC) is a cell-cell adhesion system present at the upper
portion of the lateral membrane of epithelial cells integrated by the tight junction (TJ) and the …

Perspectives of plant natural products in inhibition of cancer invasion and metastasis by regulating multiple signaling pathways

MS Sarwar, HJ Zhang, SW Tsang - Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Metastasis is often derived from increased invasion and migration of tumor
cells, and is the most frequent cause of cancer-associated death. Either the prophylactic or …

Retinoic acid directs breast cancer cell state changes through regulation of TET2-PKCζ pathway

MJ Wu, MR Kim, YS Chen, JY Yang, CJ Chang - Oncogene, 2017 - nature.com
The key molecular mechanism governing the cancer cell state (stem cell-like state vs
differentiation state) to control the cancer stem cell (CSC) pool remains elusive. This study …

Hypermethylation of PRKCZ regulated by E6 inhibits invasion and EMT via Cdc42 in HPV-related head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

HF Wang, J Jiang, JS Wu, M Zhang, X Pang, L Dai… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary HPV+ and HPV-HNSCC share distinct epigenetic characteristics and
clinicopathological features. The aim of our study was to assess whether DNA methylation …

[HTML][HTML] Baicalin inhibits human cervical cancer cells by suppressing protein kinase C/signal transducer and activator of transcription (PKC/STAT3) signaling pathway

Q Wang, H Xu, X Zhao - Medical science monitor: international …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Like other human cancers, the malignancy of cervical cancer is also
characterized by abilities of proliferation, migration, and invasion. Protein kinase C-zeta …