Emerging strategies for treating metastasis

M Esposito, S Ganesan, Y Kang - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
The systemic spread of tumor cells is the ultimate cause of the majority of deaths from
cancer, yet few successful therapeutic strategies have emerged to specifically target …

Distinctive properties of metastasis-initiating cells

T Celià-Terrassa, Y Kang - Genes & development, 2016 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Primary tumors are known to constantly shed a large number of cancer cells into systemic
dissemination, yet only a tiny fraction of these cells is capable of forming overt metastases …

WTAP-mediated m6A modification of lncRNA DIAPH1-AS1 enhances its stability to facilitate nasopharyngeal carcinoma growth and metastasis

ZX Li, ZQ Zheng, PY Yang, L Lin, GQ Zhou… - Cell Death & …, 2022 - nature.com
As the most predominant RNA epigenetic regulation in eukaryotic cells, N6-
methyladenosine (m6A) plays a critical role in human tumorigenesis and cancer …

Tumor-repopulating cells induce PD-1 expression in CD8+ T cells by transferring kynurenine and AhR activation

Y Liu, X Liang, W Dong, Y Fang, J Lv, T Zhang… - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
Despite the clinical successes fostered by immune checkpoint inhibitors, mechanisms
underlying PD-1 upregulation in tumor-infiltrating T cells remain an enigma. Here, we show …

Immature natural killer cells promote progression of triple-negative breast cancer

G Thacker, S Henry, A Nandi, R Debnath… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
Natural killer (NK) cells are cytotoxic lymphocytes that accumulate within the tumor
microenvironment and are generally considered to be antitumorigenic. Using single-cell …

TRIB3 supports breast cancer stemness by suppressing FOXO1 degradation and enhancing SOX2 transcription

J Yu, W Sun, Z Wang, X Liang, F Hua, K Li, X Lv… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The existence of breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) is a major reason underlying cancer
metastasis and recurrence after chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Targeting BCSCs may …

[HTML][HTML] A pan-cancer analysis of the oncogenic role of staphylococcal nuclease domain-containing protein 1 (SND1) in human tumors

X Cui, X Zhang, M Liu, C Zhao, N Zhang, Y Ren, C Su… - Genomics, 2020 - Elsevier
Although emerging cell-or animal-based evidence supports the relationship between SND1
and cancers, no pan-cancer analysis is available. We thus first explored the potential …

Parkin targets HIF-1α for ubiquitination and degradation to inhibit breast tumor progression

J Liu, C Zhang, Y Zhao, X Yue, H Wu, S Huang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Mutations in E3 ubiquitin ligase Parkin have been linked to familial Parkinson's disease.
Accumulating evidence suggests that Parkin is a tumor suppressor, but the underlying …

[HTML][HTML] Tinagl1 suppresses triple-negative breast cancer progression and metastasis by simultaneously inhibiting integrin/FAK and EGFR signaling

M Shen, YZ Jiang, Y Wei, B Ell, X Sheng, M Esposito… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients have the worst prognosis and distant
metastasis-free survival among all major subtypes of breast cancer. The poor clinical outlook …

Cancer stem cells: targeting the roots of cancer, seeds of metastasis, and sources of therapy resistance

V Adorno-Cruz, G Kibria, X Liu, M Doherty… - Cancer …, 2015 - aacrjournals.org
With the goal to remove the roots of cancer, eliminate metastatic seeds, and overcome
therapy resistance, the 2014 inaugural International Cancer Stem Cell (CSC) Conference at …