Blog of Signaling Pathways

The HSP90 inhibitor XL888 overcomes BRAF inhibitor resistance mediated through diverse mechanisms

2017 views | Nov 25 2017

Paraiso KH et al.showed that HSP90 inhibition may be a highly effective strategy at managing the diverse array of resistance mechanisms being reported to BRAF inhibitors and appears to be more effective at restoring BIM expression and downregulating Mcl-1 expression than combined MEK/PI3K inhibitor therapy. [Read the Full Post]

Hsp90β promoted endothelial cell-dependent tumor angiogenesis in hepatocellular carcinoma

1810 views | Nov 24 2017

Meng J et al. investigated the correlation between Hsp90β expression and CD31+ endothelial cell-dependent vessel density. [Read the Full Post]

Photodynamic therapy activated STAT3 associated pathways: Targeting intrinsic apoptotic pathways to increase PDT efficacy in human squamous carcinoma cells

2011 views | Nov 23 2017

Qiao L et al. confirmed that 5-ALA-PDT might be an effective treatment for human squamous carcinoma by inhibiting the tumor cell A431growth and for the first time demonstrated that the expression of STAT3 was significantly reduced at 24h after 5-ALA-PDT treatment. [Read the Full Post]

Hyperinsulinemia enhances interleukin-17-induced inflammation to promote prostate cancer development in obese mice through inhibiting glycogen synthase kinase 3-mediated phosphorylation and degradation of interleukin-17 receptor

1070 views | Nov 23 2017

Liu S et al.revealed a mechanism underlying the intensified inflammation in obesity and obesity-associated development of aggressive prostate cancer, suggesting that targeting GSK3 may be a potential therapeutic approach to suppress IL-17-mediated inflammation in the prevention and treatment of prostate cancer, particularly in obese men. [Read the Full Post]

Synergistic Cytotoxicity of Melatonin and New-generation Anticancer Drugs Against Leukemia Lymphocytes But Not Normal Lymphocytes

1643 views | Nov 22 2017

Zhelev Z et al. suggested that melatonin is a promising supplementary component in chemotherapy which allows the therapeutic doses of anticancer drugs to be reduced, minimizing their side-effects. [Read the Full Post]

Tissue-specific variation in nonsense mutant transcript level and drug-induced read-through efficiency in the Cln1(R151X) mouse model of INC

1012 views | Nov 22 2017

Thada V et al. identified a new challenge/hurdle for read-through drug therapy: variable efficiency of read-through therapy in the different tissues/organs because of tissue-specific variations in nonsense mutant transcript levels. [Read the Full Post]

Amplification of EGFR Wild-Type Alleles in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells Confers Acquired Resistance to Mutation-Selective EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors

0 views | Nov 21 2017

Nukaga S et al. provided evidence of wild-type allele-mediated resistance, a novel concept of acquired resistance in response to mutation-selective inhibitor therapy in cancer treatment. [Read the Full Post]

Inhibition of the Pentose-phosphate Pathway Selectively Sensitizes Leukemia Lymphocytes to Chemotherapeutics by ROS-independent Mechanism

1524 views | Nov 21 2017

Zhelev Z et al. suggested that 6-ANA could be used as a supplementary component in anticancer chemotherapy, and would allows therapeutic doses of anticancer drugs to be reduced, thereby minimizing their side-effects. [Read the Full Post]

An Optimized Chromatographic Strategy for Multiplexing In Parallel Reaction Monitoring Mass Spectrometry: Insights from Quantitation of Activated Kinases

1007 views | Nov 20 2017

Urisman A et al. obtained from these analyses reveal compensatory activation of TGF-β family receptors as a response to MAPK blockade. The gains achieved using this label-free PRM multiplexing strategy will benefit a wide array of biological applications. [Read the Full Post]

WEE1 inhibition targets cell cycle checkpoints for triple negative breast cancers to overcome cisplatin resistance

1114 views | Nov 19 2017

demonstrated that combined cisplatin treatment and WEE1 inhibition synergistically inhibits xenograft cancer growth accompanied by markedly reduced expression of TNBC signature genes. Thus targeting DNA replication and G2-M cell cycle checkpoint simultaneously by cisplatin and WEE1 inhibition is promising for TNBCs treatment, and for overcoming their cisplatin resistance. [Read the Full Post]

AZGP1 suppresses epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and hepatic carcinogenesis by blocking TGFβ1-ERK2 pathways

3876 views | Nov 19 2017

Xu MY et al. showed that loss of AZGP1 could trigger EMT induced by TGFβ1-ERK2 signaling, confuse in energy metabolism, reduce cell proliferation and apoptosis, activate survival signals and promote invasion. Up-regulation of AZGP1 should be proposed to reverse EMT and might be a new promising therapy for HCC. [Read the Full Post]

Anticancer sulfonamides target splicing by inducing RBM39 degradation via recruitment to DCAF15

0 views | Nov 18 2017

Han T et al. proposed that DCAF15 expression may be a useful biomarker to guide clinical trials of this class of drugs, which we refer to as SPLAMs (splicing inhibitor sulfonamides). [Read the Full Post]

CQ synergistically sensitizes human colorectal cancer cells to SN-38/CPT-11 through lysosomal and mitochondrial apoptotic pathway via p53-ROS cross-talk

1386 views | Nov 18 2017

Chen P et al. showed that CQ could enhance CRC cells response to CPT-11 (a prodrug of SN-38) in xenograft models. Thus the combined treatment might represent an attractive therapeutic strategy for the treatment of CRC. [Read the Full Post]

Targeting protein kinase C in mantle cell lymphoma

1567 views | Nov 16 2017

Rauert-Wunderlich H et al. showed that MCL cells are heterogeneous in their response to BTK or PKC inhibition, indicating the need for even more individualized targeted treatment approaches in subsets of MCL patients. [Read the Full Post]

NMR Characterization of Information Flow and Allosteric Communities in the MAP Kinase p38γ

2447 views | Nov 16 2017

Aoto PC et al. demonstrated that the approach detects critical junctions in the network corresponding to biologically significant allosteric sites and pathways. [Read the Full Post]

Modulation of Cell-Mediated Immunity to Suppress High Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance

1040 views | Nov 14 2017

Yan L et al. showed that immune modulation represents an important intervention for obesity and obesity-associated insulin resistance. [Read the Full Post]

HSP90 Shapes the Consequences of Human Genetic Variation

0 views | Nov 14 2017

Karras GI et al. provided one plausible mechanism for the variable expressivity and environmental sensitivity of genetic diseases. [Read the Full Post]

Differential expression of cyclooxygenase-2 in metastatic melanoma affects progression free survival

1683 views | Nov 13 2017

Panza E et al. suggested that COX-2 expression may become an useful diagnostic tool in defining melanoma malignancy as well as argue for a possible therapeutic use of NSAID as add on therapy in selected cases. [Read the Full Post]

COX-2 expression positively correlates with PD-L1 expression in human melanoma cells

1653 views | Nov 13 2017

Botti G et al. showed that COX-2 expression correlates with and modulates PD-L1 expression in melanoma cells. These findings have clinical relevance since they provide a rationale to implement novel clinical trials to test COX-2 inhibition as a potential treatment to prevent melanoma progression and immune evasion as well as to enhance the anti-tumor activity of PD-1/PD-L1 based immunotherapy for the treatment of melanoma patients with or without BRAF/NRAS mutations. [Read the Full Post]

Retinoic acid promotes expression of germline-specific genes in chicken blastoderm cells by stimulating Smad1/5 phosphorylation in a feeder-free culture system

1052 views | Nov 12 2017

Tang X et al. demonstrated that E8 medium is able to maintain cBC growth for weeks and RA treatment induced germ cell differentiation of cBCs through the BMP-Smad1/5 signaling pathway. [Read the Full Post]