Molecular classifications in gastric cancer: A call for interdisciplinary collaboration

C Díaz del Arco, MJ Fernández Aceñero… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Gastric cancer (GC) is a heterogeneous disease, often diagnosed at advanced stages, with
a 5-year survival rate of approximately 20%. Despite notable technological advancements in …

[HTML][HTML] Role of Receptor for Advanced Glycation End-Products in Endometrial Cancer: A Review

K Zglejc-Waszak, M Jozwik, M Thoene, J Wojtkiewicz - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The RAGE signaling pathway is associated with many chronic disorders.
One of them may be endometrial cancer (EC). EC is one of the most common gynecologic …

Discovery of YAP1/TAZ pathway inhibitors through phenotypic screening with potent anti-tumor activity via blockade of Rho-GTPase signaling

K Graham, P Lienau, B Bader, S Prechtl, J Naujoks… - Cell Chemical …, 2024 - cell.com
This study describes the identification and target deconvolution of small molecule inhibitors
of oncogenic Yes-associated protein (YAP1)/TAZ activity with potent anti-tumor activity in …

Targeting guanine nucleotide exchange factors for novel cancer drug discovery

SF Bannoura, HY Khan, MH Uddin… - Expert Opinion on …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) regulate the activation of small
GTPases (G proteins) of the Ras superfamily proteins controlling cellular functions. Ras …

Identification of immune‐related hub genes and construction of an immune‐related gene prognostic index for low‐grade glioma

J Zhou, H Guo, L Liu, Z **, W Zhang… - Journal of Cellular and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Low‐grade glioma (LGG) poses significant management challenges and has a dismal
prognosis. While immunotherapy has shown significant promise in cancer treatment, its …

CPMI: comprehensive neighborhood-based perturbed mutual information for identifying critical states of complex biological processes

J Ren, P Li, J Yan - BMC bioinformatics, 2024 - Springer
Background There exists a critical transition or tip** point during the complex biological
process. Such critical transition is usually accompanied by the catastrophic consequences …

Cell context-specific synthetic lethality prediction and mechanism analysis

Y **ng, M Pu, K Cheng, K Tian, L Wei, W Zheng… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Synthetic lethality (SL) holds significant promise as a targeted cancer therapy by selectively
eliminating tumor cells while sparing normal cells. However, the discovery of SL gene pairs …

Role of Rho Family Small GTPases in the Regulation of Normal and Pathological Processes

DE Bobkov, AV Lukacheva, AI Gorb… - Cell and Tissue …, 2024 - Springer
Small GTPases are monomeric (approximately 21 kDa) proteins that regulate a number of
biological processes, such as vesicle transport, cell division cycle, cell migration, invasion …

[HTML][HTML] Using graph-based model to identify cell specific synthetic lethal effects

M Pu, K Cheng, X Li, Y **n, L Wei, S **… - Computational and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Synthetic lethal (SL) pairs are pairs of genes whose simultaneous loss-of-function results in
cell death, while a damaging mutation of either gene alone does not affect the cell's survival …

Novel YAP1/TAZ pathway inhibitors identified through phenotypic screening with potent anti-tumor activity via blockade of GGTase-I/Rho-GTPase signaling

K Graham, P Lienau, B Bader, S Prechtl, J Naujoks… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
This study describes the identification and target deconvolution of novel small molecule
inhibitors of oncogenic YAP1/TAZ activity with potent anti-tumor activity in vivo. A high …