The Hox genes and their roles in oncogenesis

N Shah, S Sukumar - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2010 - nature.com
Hox genes, a highly conserved subgroup of the homeobox superfamily, have crucial roles in
development, regulating numerous processes including apoptosis, receptor signalling …

Long non-coding RNA HOTAIR reprograms chromatin state to promote cancer metastasis

RA Gupta, N Shah, KC Wang, J Kim, HM Horlings… - nature, 2010 - nature.com
Large intervening non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) are pervasively transcribed in the genome,,
yet their potential involvement in human disease is not well understood,. Recent studies of …

The role of HOX transcription factors in cancer predisposition and progression

B Li, Q Huang, GH Wei - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Homeobox (HOX) transcription factors, encoded by a subset of homeodomain superfamily
genes, play pivotal roles in many aspects of cellular physiology, embryonic development …

Tumor-associated macrophages: unwitting accomplices in breast cancer malignancy

CB Williams, ES Yeh, AC Soloff - NPJ breast cancer, 2016 - nature.com
Deleterious inflammation is a primary feature of breast cancer. Accumulating evidence
demonstrates that macrophages, the most abundant leukocyte population in mammary …

P53-regulated long non-coding RNA TUG1 affects cell proliferation in human non-small cell lung cancer, partly through epigenetically regulating HOXB7 expression

EB Zhang, DD Yin, M Sun, R Kong, XH Liu… - Cell death & …, 2014 - nature.com
Recently, a novel class of transcripts, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), is being identified
at a rapid pace. These RNAs have critical roles in diverse biological processes, including …

[PDF][PDF] Combined gene expression analysis of whole-tissue and microdissected pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma identifies genes specifically overexpressed in …

L Badea, V Herlea, SO Dima, T Dumitrascu… - Hepato …, 2008 - ai.ici.ro
Background: The precise details of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC)
pathogenesis are still insufficiently known, requiring the use of higthroughput methods …

The polycomb group protein Bmi-1 represses the tumor suppressor PTEN and induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition in human nasopharyngeal epithelial cells

LB Song, J Li, WT Liao, Y Feng, CP Yu… - The Journal of …, 2009 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The polycomb group protein B lymphoma Mo-MLV insertion region 1 homolog (Bmi-1) is
dysregulated in various cancers, and its upregulation strongly correlates with an invasive …

Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition Traits in Human Breast Cancer Cell Lines Parallel the CD44hi/CD24lo/- Stem Cell Phenotype in Human Breast Cancer

T Blick, H Hugo, E Widodo, M Waltham, C Pinto… - Journal of mammary …, 2010 - Springer
We review here the recently emerging relationship between epithelial-mesenchymal
transition (EMT) and breast cancer stem cells (BCSC), and provide analyses of published …

Hox-C9 activates the intrinsic pathway of apoptosis and is associated with spontaneous regression in neuroblastoma

H Kocak, S Ackermann, B Hero, Y Kahlert… - Cell death & …, 2013 - nature.com
Neuroblastoma is an embryonal malignancy of the sympathetic nervous system.
Spontaneous regression and differentiation of neuroblastoma is observed in a subset of …

Tight junction proteins: from barrier to tumorigenesis

EA Runkle, D Mu - Cancer letters, 2013 - Elsevier
The tight junction is a multi-protein complex and is the apical most junctional complex in
certain epithelial and endothelial cells. A great deal of attention has been devoted to the …