IL-6 and related cytokines as the critical lynchpins between inflammation and cancer

K Taniguchi, M Karin - Seminars in immunology, 2014 - Elsevier
Inflammatory responses play pivotal roles in cancer development, including tumor initiation,
promotion, progression, and metastasis. Cytokines are now recognized as important …

Transforming growth factor β superfamily signaling in development of colorectal cancer

B Jung, JJ Staudacher, D Beauchamp - Gastroenterology, 2017 - Elsevier
Transforming growth factor (TGF)-β cytokines signal via a complex network of pathways to
regulate proliferation, differentiation, adhesion, migration, and other functions in many cell …

Elesclomol induces copper‐dependent ferroptosis in colorectal cancer cells via degradation of ATP7A

W Gao, Z Huang, J Duan, EC Nice, J Lin… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer cells reprogram their copper metabolism to adapt to adverse microenvironments,
such as oxidative stress. The copper chelator elesclomol has been reported to have …

The amino acid transporter SLC7A5 is required for efficient growth of KRAS-mutant colorectal cancer

AK Najumudeen, F Ceteci, SK Fey, G Hamm… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Oncogenic KRAS mutations and inactivation of the APC tumor suppressor co-occur in
colorectal cancer (CRC). Despite efforts to target mutant KRAS directly, most therapeutic …

Enrichment map: a network-based method for gene-set enrichment visualization and interpretation

D Merico, R Isserlin, O Stueker, A Emili, GD Bader - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Gene-set enrichment analysis is a useful technique to help functionally
characterize large gene lists, such as the results of gene expression experiments. This …

Wnt/β-catenin signaling regulates telomerase in stem cells and cancer cells

K Hoffmeyer, A Raggioli, S Rudloff, R Anton… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Telomerase activity controls telomere length and plays a pivotal role in stem cells, aging,
and cancer. Here, we report a molecular link between Wnt/β-catenin signaling and the …

Gene expression signature to improve prognosis prediction of stage II and III colorectal cancer

R Salazar, P Roepman, G Capella, V Moreno… - Journal of clinical …, 2011 - ascopubs.org
Purpose This study aims to develop a robust gene expression classifier that can predict
disease relapse in patients with early-stage colorectal cancer (CRC). Patients and Methods …

[HTML][HTML] The pan-ErbB negative regulator Lrig1 is an intestinal stem cell marker that functions as a tumor suppressor

AE Powell, Y Wang, Y Li, EJ Poulin, AL Means… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Lineage map** has identified both proliferative and quiescent intestinal stem cells, but the
molecular circuitry controlling stem cell quiescence is incompletely understood. By lineage …

β-catenin confers resistance to PI3K and AKT inhibitors and subverts FOXO3a to promote metastasis in colon cancer

SP Tenbaum, P Ordóñez-Morán, I Puig, I Chicote… - Nature medicine, 2012 - nature.com
The Wnt–β-catenin and PI3K-AKT-FOXO3a pathways have a central role in cancer. AKT
phosporylates FOXO3a, relocating it from the cell nucleus to the cytoplasm, an effect that is …

Novel insights into the relationships between dendritic cell subsets in human and mouse revealed by genome-wide expression profiling

SH Robbins, T Walzer, D Dembélé, C Thibault… - Genome biology, 2008 - Springer
Abstract Background Dendritic cells (DCs) are a complex group of cells that play a critical
role in vertebrate immunity. Lymph-node resident DCs (LN-DCs) are subdivided into …