Cell cycle control in cancer

HK Matthews, C Bertoli, RAM de Bruin - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer is a group of diseases in which cells divide continuously and excessively. Cell
division is tightly regulated by multiple evolutionarily conserved cell cycle control …

Mitosis inhibitors in anticancer therapy: When blocking the exit becomes a solution

AC Henriques, D Ribeiro, J Pedrosa, B Sarmento… - Cancer letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Current microtubule-targeting agents (MTAs) remain amongst the most important antimitotic
drugs used against a broad range of malignancies. By perturbing spindle assembly, MTAs …

Cell cycle dysregulation in cancer

A Glaviano, SK Singh, EHC Lee, E Okina… - Pharmacological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cancer is a systemic manifestation of aberrant cell cycle activity and dysregulated cell
growth. Genetic mutations can determine tumor onset by either augmenting cell division …

Targeting mitosis exit: a brake for cancer cell proliferation

X Liu, Y Chen, Y Li, RB Petersen, K Huang - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2019 - Elsevier
The transition from mitosis to interphase, referred to as mitotic exit, is a critical mitotic
process which involves activation and inactivation of multiple mitotic kinases and …

Generation of two paclitaxel-resistant high-grade serous carcinoma cell lines with increased expression of p-glycoprotein

M Nunes, PMA Silva, R Coelho, C Pinto… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Debulking surgery followed by chemotherapy are the standard of care for high-grade serous
carcinoma. After an initial good response to treatment, the majority of patients relapse with a …

BAD sensitizes breast cancer cells to docetaxel with increased mitotic arrest and necroptosis

J Mann, N Yang, R Montpetit, R Kirschenman… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Breast cancer patients are commonly treated with taxane (eg docetaxel) chemotherapy,
despite poor outcomes and eventual disease relapse. We previously identified the Bcl-2 …

Regulatory miRNAs, circRNAs and lncRNAs in cell cycle progression of breast cancer

H Chen, G **e, Q Luo, Y Yang, S Hu - Functional & Integrative Genomics, 2023 - Springer
Breast cancer is a complex and heterogeneous disease that poses a significant public
health concern worldwide, and it remains a major challenge despite advances in treatment …

Antagonizing the spindle assembly checkpoint silencing enhances paclitaxel and Navitoclax-mediated apoptosis with distinct mechanistic

AC Henriques, PMA Silva, B Sarmento, H Bousbaa - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Antimitotic drugs arrest cells in mitosis through chronic activation of the spindle assembly
checkpoint (SAC), leading to cell death. However, drug-treated cancer cells can escape …

Maximizing Anticancer Response with MPS1 and CENPE Inhibition Alongside Apoptosis Induction

B Pinto, JPN Silva, PMA Silva, DJ Barbosa, B Sarmento… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Antimitotic compounds, targeting key spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) components (eg,
MPS1, Aurora kinase B, PLK1, KLP1, CENPE), are potential alternatives to microtubule …

Spindly and Bub3 expression in oral cancer: Prognostic and therapeutic implications

PMA Silva, ML Delgado, N Ribeiro, C Florindo… - Oral …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objectives Bub3 and Spindly are essential proteins required for the activation and
inactivation of the spindle assembly checkpoint, respectively. Here, we explored the …