Emerging functions of the EGFR in cancer

S Sigismund, D Avanzato, L Lanzetti - Molecular oncology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The physiological function of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is to regulate
epithelial tissue development and homeostasis. In pathological settings, mostly in lung and …

The ERK and JNK pathways in the regulation of metabolic reprogramming

S Papa, PM Choy, C Bubici - Oncogene, 2019 - nature.com
Most tumor cells reprogram their glucose metabolism as a result of mutations in oncogenes
and tumor suppressors, leading to the constitutive activation of signaling pathways involved …

Spatial immunophenotypes predict response to anti-PD1 treatment and capture distinct paths of T cell evasion in triple negative breast cancer

D Hammerl, JWM Martens, M Timmermans… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Only a subgroup of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) responds to immune checkpoint
inhibitors (ICI). To better understand lack of response to ICI, we analyze 681 TNBCs for …

Integrated proteogenomic characterization of clear cell renal cell carcinoma

DJ Clark, SM Dhanasekaran, F Petralia, J Pan, X Song… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
To elucidate the deregulated functional modules that drive clear cell renal cell carcinoma
(ccRCC), we performed comprehensive genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, proteomic …

Triple-negative breast cancer therapeutic resistance: Where is the Achilles' heel?

X Bai, J Ni, J Beretov, P Graham, Y Li - Cancer letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) shows a higher response rate to systemic therapy
compared with other breast cancer subtypes. However, the tumor differentiation of TNBC is …

Targeting glucose metabolism to overcome resistance to anticancer chemotherapy in breast cancer

E Varghese, SM Samuel, A Líšková, M Samec… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer (BC) is the most prevalent cancer in women. BC is heterogeneous, with
distinct phenotypical and morphological characteristics. These are based on their gene …

Pan-cancer deconvolution of tumour composition using DNA methylation

A Chakravarthy, A Furness, K Joshi, E Ghorani… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The nature and extent of immune cell infiltration into solid tumours are key determinants of
therapeutic response. Here, using a DNA methylation-based approach to tumour cell …

Metabolic reprogramming in triple-negative breast cancer

X Sun, M Wang, M Wang, X Yu, J Guo, T Sun… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Metabolic reprogramming is an emerging hallmark of cancer cells, in which cancer cells
exhibit distinct metabolic phenotypes to fuel their proliferation and progression. The …

Cancer cell and macrophage cross-talk in the tumor microenvironment

N Dehne, J Mora, D Namgaladze, A Weigert… - Current opinion in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•The tumor microenvironment contains innate immune cells, for example,
macrophages.•Hypoxia imposes stress to tumor cells and their environment.•Tumor cell alter …

Metabolic plasticity in chemotherapy resistance

MA Desbats, I Giacomini, T Prayer-Galetti… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Resistance of cancer cells to chemotherapy is the first cause of cancer-associated death.
Thus, new strategies to deal with the evasion of drug response and to improve clinical …