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Chromosomal aberrations that accompany carcinogenesis have been documented for almost half a century, with gene fusions being the most prevalent type of aberration. Gene fusions leading to generation of aberrant fusion proteins or aberrant expression of normal proteins are a potent route to carcinogenesis and have recently emerged as attractive therapeutic targets. Intriguingly, although gene fusions have been widely observed in hematological malignancies, they have been far less frequently described in the more-common epithelial carcinomas. It has been recently proposed that technical issues, rather than any fundamental dichotomy between hematological and solid cancers, account for the under-representation of gene fusions in epithelial cancers. Recent reports from our group support this contention and provide evidence of widespread recurrent gene fusions in prostate cancer using a novel analysis of gene-expression profiles. Here, we provide an appraisal of the state of the knowledge of gene fusions in epithelial cancers. Future implications of gene fusions in common epithelial cancers are also discussed. 相似文献
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Craig P. Giacomini Steven Sun Sushama Varma A. Hunter Shain Marilyn M. Giacomini Jay Balagtas Robert T. Sweeney Everett Lai Catherine A. Del Vecchio Andrew D. Forster Nicole Clarke Kelli D. Montgomery Shirley Zhu Albert J. Wong Matt van de Rijn Robert B. West Jonathan R. Pollack 《PLoS genetics》2013,9(4)
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Bing-Lan Zhang Di-Yuan Qin Ze-Ming Mo Yi Li Wei Wei Yong-Sheng Wang Wei Wang Yu-Quan Wei 《中国科学:生命科学英文版》2016,59(4):340-348
Recent reports on the impressive efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified T cells against hematologic malignancies have inspired oncologists to extend these efforts for the treatment of solid tumors. Clinical trials of CAR-T-based cancer immunotherapy for solid tumors showed that the efficacies are not as remarkable as in the case of hematologic malignancies. There are several challenges that researchers must face when treating solid cancers with CAR-T cells, these include choosing an ideal target, promoting efficient trafficking and infiltration, overcoming the immunosuppressive microenvironment, and avoiding associated toxicity. In this review, we discuss the obstacles imposed by solid tumors on CAR-T cell-based immunotherapy and strategies adopted to improve the therapeutic potential of this approach. Continued investigations are necessary to improve therapeutic outcomes and decrease the adverse effects of CAR-T cell therapy in patients with solid malignancies in the future. 相似文献
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Brassesco MS 《Genetics and molecular research : GMR》2008,7(3):782-790
Hematopoietic neoplasias are characterized by recurrent chromosomal aberrations that result in the formation of gene fusions and the subsequent expression of chimeric proteins with unique properties. However, in recent years, different lymphoma/leukemia-associated rearrangements, such as BCR/ABL, IGH/BCL2, ETV6/RUNX1 and MLL duplications, have been detected in healthy individuals. The presence of these rearrangements indicates that such translocations can be generated in normal hematopoietic cells without apparent oncogenic consequences. This article reviews and discusses the data available in the literature. 相似文献
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《Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.)》2013,12(13):2115-2120
The link between cancer and metabolism has been suggested for a long time but further evidence of this hypothesis came from the recent molecular characterization of the LKB1/AMPK signaling pathway as a tumor suppressor axis. Besides the discovery of somatic mutations in the LKB1 gene in certain type of cancers, a critical emerging point was that the LKB1/AMPK axis remains generally functional and could be stimulated by pharmacological molecules such as metformin in cancer cells. Notably, most of experimental evidence of the anti-tumor activity of AMPK agonists comes from the study of solid tumors such as breast or prostate cancers and only few data are available in hematological malignancies, although recent works emphasized the potential therapeutic value of AMPK agonists in this setting. Further basic research work should be conducted to elucidate the molecular targets of LKB1/AMPK responsible for its anti-tumor activity in parallel of conducting clinical trials using metformin, AICAR or new AMPK activating agents to explore the potential of the LKB1/AMPK signaling pathway as a new target for anticancer drug development. 相似文献
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Amelia E Firor Alexander Jares Yupo Ma 《Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.)》2015,240(8):1087-1098
In the past 50 years, disease burden has steadily shifted from infectious disease to cancer. Standard chemotherapy has long been the mainstay of cancer medical management, and despite vast efforts towards more targeted and personalized drug therapy, many cancers remain refractory to treatment, with high rates of relapse and poor prognosis. Recent dramatic immunotherapy clinical trials have demonstrated that engineering T-cells with chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) to target CD19 can lead to complete remission in relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies, generating a great deal of enthusiasm in the field. Here we provide a comprehensive overview of the history of adoptive T-cell therapy, including CARs, in solid tumors as well as hematologic malignancies. CAR therapy has the potential to fundamentally transform cancer treatment with specific and even personalized targeting of tissue- and tumor-specific antigens. However, before CARs become standard first-line treatment modalities, critical issues regarding efficacy, combinatorial regimens, and mechanisms of treatment failure and toxicity will need to be addressed. 相似文献
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Mucin glycoproteins in neoplasia 总被引:30,自引:0,他引:30
Mucins are high molecular weight glycoproteins that are heavily glycosylated with many oligosaccharide side chains linked O-glycosidically to the protein backbone. With the recent application of molecular biological methods, the structures of apomucins and regulation of mucin genes are beginning to be understood. At least nine human mucin genes have been identified to date. Although a complete protein sequence is known for only three human mucins (MUC1, MUC2, and MUC7), common motifs have been identified in many mucins. The pattern of tissue and cell-specific expression of these mucin genes are emerging, suggesting a distinct role for each member of this diverse mucin gene family. In epithelial cancers, many of the phenotypic markers for pre-malignant and malignant cells have been found on the carbohydrate and peptide moieties of mucin glycoproteins. The expression of carbohydrate antigens appears to be due to modification of peripheral carbohydrate structures and the exposure of inner core region carbohydrates. The expression of some of the sialylated carbohydrate antigens appears to correlate with poor prognosis and increased metastatic potential in some cancers. The exposure of peptide backbone structures of mucin glycoproteins in malignancies appears to be due to abnormal glycosylation during biosynthesis. Dysregulation of tissue and cell-specific expression of mucin genes also occurs in epithelial cancers. At present, the role of mucin glycoproteins in various stages of epithelial cell carcinogenesis (including the preneoplastic state and metastasis), in cancer diagnosis and immunotherapy is under investigation. 相似文献
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William L. Blalock Alberto Bavelloni Manuela Piazzi Irene Faenza Lucio Cocco 《Journal of cellular physiology》2010,223(3):572-591
The double‐stranded RNA‐dependent kinase PKR has been described for many years as strictly a pro‐apoptotic kinase. Recent data suggest that the main purpose of this kinase is damage control and repair following stress and, if all else fails, apoptosis. Aberrant activation of PKR has been reported in numerous neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. Although a subset of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia contain low levels of PKR expression and activity, elevated PKR activity and/or expression have been detected in a wide range of hematologic malignancies, from bone marrow failure disorders to acute leukemia. With the recent findings that cancers containing elevated PKR activity are highly sensitive to PKR inhibition, we explore the role of PKR in hematologic malignancies, signal transduction pathways affected by PKR, and how PKR may contribute to leukemic transformation. J. Cell. Physiol. 223:572–591, 2010. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. 相似文献
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The pleiotropic actions of vitamin D 总被引:12,自引:0,他引:12
Lin R White JH 《BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology》2004,26(1):21-28
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Translational regulation of mitochondrial gene expression by nuclear genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
T D Fox M C Costanzo C A Strick D L Marykwas E C Seaver J K Rosenthal 《Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences》1988,319(1193):97-105