Targeting BCL-2 regulated apoptosis in cancer

KJ Campbell, SWG Tait - Open biology, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The ability of a cell to undergo mitochondrial apoptosis is governed by pro-and anti-
apoptotic members of the BCL-2 protein family. The equilibrium of pro-versus anti-apoptotic …

Thirty years of BCL-2: translating cell death discoveries into novel cancer therapies

ARD Delbridge, S Grabow, A Strasser… - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
The'hallmarks of cancer'are generally accepted as a set of genetic and epigenetic
alterations that a normal cell must accrue to transform into a fully malignant cancer. It follows …

Patient-derived xenografts undergo mouse-specific tumor evolution

U Ben-David, G Ha, YY Tseng, NF Greenwald, C Oh… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) have become a prominent cancer model system, as they
are presumed to faithfully represent the genomic features of primary tumors. Here we …

BH3-mimetic drugs: blazing the trail for new cancer medicines

D Merino, GL Kelly, G Lessene, AH Wei, AW Roberts… - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
Defects in apoptotic cell death can promote cancer and impair responses of malignant cells
to anti-cancer therapy. Pro-survival BCL-2 proteins prevent apoptosis by keeping the cell …

[HTML][HTML] Broad targeting of resistance to apoptosis in cancer

RM Mohammad, I Muqbil, L Lowe, C Yedjou… - Seminars in cancer …, 2015 - Elsevier
Apoptosis or programmed cell death is natural way of removing aged cells from the body.
Most of the anti-cancer therapies trigger apoptosis induction and related cell death networks …

Clinical review: navitoclax as a pro-apoptotic and anti-fibrotic agent

NN Mohamad Anuar, NS Nor Hisam, SL Liew… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL-2) family proteins primarily work as a programmed cell death
regulator, whereby multiple interactions between them determine cell survival. This explains …

Exploiting selective BCL-2 family inhibitors to dissect cell survival dependencies and define improved strategies for cancer therapy

JD Leverson, DC Phillips, MJ Mitten… - Science translational …, 2015 - science.org
The BCL-2/BCL-XL/BCL-W inhibitor ABT-263 (navitoclax) has shown promising clinical
activity in lymphoid malignancies such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia. However, its …

Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models in basic and translational breast cancer research

LE Dobrolecki, SD Airhart, DG Alferez… - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2016 - Springer
Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models of a growing spectrum of cancers are rapidly
supplanting long-established traditional cell lines as preferred models for conducting basic …

RANK ligand as a potential target for breast cancer prevention in BRCA1-mutation carriers

E Nolan, F Vaillant, D Branstetter, B Pal, G Giner… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Individuals who have mutations in the breast-cancer-susceptibility gene BRCA1 (hereafter
referred to as BRCA1-mutation carriers) frequently undergo prophylactic mastectomy to …

Patient-derived xenograft models of breast cancer and their predictive power

JR Whittle, MT Lewis, GJ Lindeman, JE Visvader - Breast cancer research, 2015 - Springer
Despite advances in the treatment of patients with early and metastatic breast cancer,
mortality remains high due to intrinsic or acquired resistance to therapy. Increased …