IFNγ-mediated repression of system xc drives vulnerability to induced ferroptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma cells

R Kong, N Wang, W Han, W Bao… - Journal of Leukocyte …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
IFNγ released from CD8+ T cells or natural killer cells plays a crucial role in antitumor host
immunity. Several studies have found that IFNγ is involved in regulating tumor cell …

[HTML][HTML] Chemotherapy targeting cancer stem cells

H Liu, L Lv, K Yang - American journal of cancer research, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Conventional chemotherapy is the main treatment for cancer and benefits patients in the
form of decreased relapse and metastasis and longer overall survival. However, as the …

Dependency of a therapy-resistant state of cancer cells on a lipid peroxidase pathway

VS Viswanathan, MJ Ryan, HD Dhruv, S Gill… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Plasticity of the cell state has been proposed to drive resistance to multiple classes of cancer
therapies, thereby limiting their effectiveness,,,. A high-mesenchymal cell state observed in …

Salinomycin kills cancer stem cells by sequestering iron in lysosomes

TT Mai, A Hamaï, A Hienzsch, T Cañeque, S Müller… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) represent a subset of cells within tumours that exhibit self-renewal
properties and the capacity to seed tumours. CSCs are typically refractory to conventional …

Correlating chemical sensitivity and basal gene expression reveals mechanism of action

MG Rees, B Seashore-Ludlow, JH Cheah… - Nature chemical …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in cellular gene expression in response to small-molecule or genetic
perturbations have yielded signatures that can connect unknown mechanisms of action …

Evidence for an alternative fatty acid desaturation pathway increasing cancer plasticity

K Vriens, S Christen, S Parik, D Broekaert… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Most tumours have an aberrantly activated lipid metabolism, that enables them to
synthesize, elongate and desaturate fatty acids to support proliferation. However, only …

Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition activates PERK–eIF2α and sensitizes cells to endoplasmic reticulum stress

Y Feng, ES Sokol, CA Del Vecchio, S Sanduja… - Cancer discovery, 2014 - AACR
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) promotes both tumor progression and drug
resistance, yet few vulnerabilities of this state have been identified. Using selective small …

Overview of evidence-based chemotherapy for oral cancer: focus on drug resistance related to the epithelial-mesenchymal transition

J Sha, Y Bai, HX Ngo, T Okui, T Kanno - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The increasing incidence of resistance to chemotherapeutic agents has become a major
issue in the treatment of oral cancer (OC). Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) has …

The power of sophisticated phenotypic screening and modern mechanism-of-action methods

BK Wagner, SL Schreiber - Cell chemical biology, 2016 - cell.com
The enthusiasm for phenotypic screening as an approach for small-molecule discovery has
increased dramatically over the last several years. The recent increase in phenotype-based …

Therapeutic targeting of cancer stem cells: integrating and exploiting the acidic niche

C Vander Linden, C Corbet - Frontiers in Oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cancer stem cells (CSC) or tumor-initiating cells represent a small subpopulation of cells
within the tumor bulk that share features with somatic stem cells, such as self-renewal and …