Beyond genetics: driving cancer with the tumour microenvironment behind the wheel

S Yuan, J Almagro, E Fuchs - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer has long been viewed as a genetic disease of cumulative mutations. This notion is
fuelled by studies showing that ageing tissues are often riddled with clones of complex …

Mutant p53 as a guardian of the cancer cell

F Mantovani, L Collavin, G Del Sal - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2019 - nature.com
Forty years of research have established that the p53 tumor suppressor provides a major
barrier to neoplastic transformation and tumor progression by its unique ability to act as an …

Nonsense-mediated RNA decay: an emerging modulator of malignancy

K Tan, DG Stupack, MF Wilkinson - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Nonsense-mediated RNA decay (NMD) is a highly conserved RNA turnover pathway that
selectively degrades RNAs harbouring truncating mutations that prematurely terminate …

Ubiquitin ligases in oncogenic transformation and cancer therapy

D Senft, J Qi, ZA Ronai - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
The cellular response to external stress signals and DNA damage depends on the activity of
ubiquitin ligases (E3s), which regulate numerous cellular processes, including homeostasis …

The force awakens: metastatic dormant cancer cells

SY Park, JS Nam - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Recurrent cancer that spreads to distant sites is the leading cause of disease-related death
among cancer patients. Cancer cells are likely to disseminate during cancer progression …

Phosphorylation of PDHA by AMPK drives TCA cycle to promote cancer metastasis

Z Cai, CF Li, F Han, C Liu, A Zhang, CC Hsu, D Peng… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cancer metastasis accounts for the major cause of cancer-related deaths. How
disseminated cancer cells cope with hostile microenvironments in secondary site for full …

The lncRNA MACC1-AS1 promotes gastric cancer cell metabolic plasticity via AMPK/Lin28 mediated mRNA stability of MACC1

Y Zhao, Y Liu, L Lin, Q Huang, W He, S Zhang, S Dong… - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Background Metabolic plasticity has been increasingly thought to be a determinant of tumor
growth and metastasis. MACC1, a transcriptional regulator of MET, was recognized as an …