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C4b-binding protein α-chain enhances antitumor immunity by facilitating the accumulation of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in the tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer

Recent studies indicate that complement plays pivotal roles in promoting or suppressing cancer progression. We have previously identified C4b-binding protein α-chain (C4BPA) as a serum biomarker for the early ...

Authors: Kosuke Sasaki, Shigetsugu Takano, Satoshi Tomizawa, Yoji Miyahara, Katsunori Furukawa, Tsukasa Takayashiki, Satoshi Kuboki, Mamoru Takada and Masayuki Ohtsuka

PARP inhibitors in gastric cancer: beacon of hope

Defects in the DNA damage response (DDR) can lead to genome instability, producing mutations or aberrations that promote the development and progression of cancer. But it also confers such cells vulnerable to ...

Authors: Yali Wang, Kun Zheng, Yongbiao Huang, Hua Xiong, Jinfang Su, Rui Chen and Yanmei Zou

HCK maintains the self-renewal of leukaemia stem cells via CDK6 in AML

Leukaemia stem cells (LSCs) are responsible for the initiation, maintenance, and recurrence of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), an aggressive haematological malignancy associated with drug resistance and relapse...

Authors: Zheng Li, Fangce Wang, Xiaoxue Tian, Jun Long, Bin Ling, Wenjun Zhang, Jun Xu and Aibin Liang

TRAIL promotes epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition by inducing PD-L1 expression in esophageal squamous cell carcinomas

Tumor necrosis factor-associated apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) was initially considered an immunity guard; however, its function remains controversial. Besides immune cells, lung and colon cancer cells hav...

Authors: Huanyu Zhang, Guohui Qin, Chaoqi Zhang, Huiyun Yang, Jinyan Liu, Hongwei Hu, Peng Wu, Shasha Liu, Li Yang, Xinfeng Chen, Xueke Zhao, Lidong Wang and Yi Zhang

Correction to: Long non-coding RNA XIST regulates gastric cancer progression by acting as a molecular sponge of miR-101 to modulate EZH2 expression

Authors: Dong-liang Chen, Huai-qiang Ju, Yun-xin Lu, Le-zong Chen, Zhao-lei Zeng, Dong-sheng Zhang, Hui-yan Luo, Feng Wang, Miao-zhen Qiu, De-shen Wang, Da-zhi Xu, Zhi-wei Zhou, Helene Pelicano, Peng Huang, Dan Xie, Feng-hua Wang…

Patient-derived cell lines and orthotopic mouse model of peritoneal carcinomatosis recapitulate molecular and phenotypic features of human gastric adenocarcinoma

Gastric adenocarcinoma with peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) is therapy resistant and leads to poor survival. To study PC in depth, there is an urgent need to develop representative PC-derived cell lines and met...

Authors: Shumei Song, Yan Xu, Longfei Huo, Shuangtao Zhao, Ruiping Wang, Yuan Li, Ailing W. Scott, Melissa Pool Pizzi, Ying Wang, Yibo Fan, Kazuto Harada, Jiankang Jin, Lang Ma, Xiaodan Yao, Namita D. Shanbhag, Qiong Gan…

Metformin induces Ferroptosis by inhibiting UFMylation of SLC7A11 in breast cancer

Ferroptosis is a newly defined form of regulated cell death characterized by the iron-dependent accumulation of lipid peroxidation and is involved in various pathophysiological conditions, including cancer. Ta...

Authors: Jingjing Yang, Yulu Zhou, Shuduo Xie, Ji Wang, Zhaoqing Li, Lini Chen, Misha Mao, Cong Chen, Aihua Huang, Yongxia Chen, Xun Zhang, Noor Ul Hassan Khan, Linbo Wang and Jichun Zhou

LncRNA CARMN overexpression promotes prognosis and chemosensitivity of triple negative breast cancer via acting as miR143-3p host gene and inhibiting DNA replication

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a subtype of breast cancer with poor prognosis and lack of effective treatment target. Here we screened differentially expressed lncRNAs through bioinformatics analysis ...

Authors: Xiaonan Sheng, Huijuan Dai, Yueyao Du, Jing Peng, Rui Sha, Fan Yang, Liheng Zhou, Yanping Lin, Shuguang Xu, Yifan Wu, Wenjin Yin and Jinsong Lu

Correction to: Long non-coding RNA LINC00968 attenuates drug resistance of breast cancer cells through inhibiting the Wnt2/β-catenin signaling pathway by regulating WNT2

Authors: Dian-Hui Xiu, Gui-Feng Liu, Shao-Nan Yu, Long-Yun Li, Guo-Qing Zhao, Lin Liu and Xue-Feng Li

Targeting WD repeat domain 5 enhances chemosensitivity and inhibits proliferation and programmed death-ligand 1 expression in bladder cancer

Chemotherapy and/or immunotherapy are first-line treatments for advanced muscle-invasive bladder cancer (BCa), but the unsatisfactory objective response rate to these treatments yields poor 5-year patient surv...

Authors: Jingtong Zhang, Qianghua Zhou, Keji Xie, Liang Cheng, Shengmeng Peng, Ruihui Xie, Lixuan Liu, Yangjie Zhang, Wen Dong, Jinli Han, Ming Huang, Yuelong Chen, Tianxin Lin, Jian Huang and Xu Chen

Current approach and novel perspectives in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: the role of targeting proteasome dysregulation as a molecular landmark in nasopharyngeal cancer

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) represents a molecularly paradigmatic tumor given the complex diversity of environmental as well as host dependent factors that are closely implicated in tissue transformation an...

Authors: Ramon Yarza, Mateo Bover, Maria Teresa Agulló-Ortuño and Lara Carmen Iglesias-Docampo

USP1-dependent RPS16 protein stability drives growth and metastasis of human hepatocellular carcinoma cells

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a medical challenge due to its high proliferation and metastasis. Although deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) play a key role in regulating protein degradation, their pathol...

Authors: Yuning Liao, Zhenlong Shao, Yuan Liu, Xiaohong Xia, Yuanfei Deng, Cuifu Yu, Wenshuang Sun, Weiyao Kong, Xiaoyue He, Fang Liu, Zhiqiang Guo, Guoxing Chen, Daolin Tang, Huoye Gan, Jinbao Liu and Hongbiao Huang

RNA-binding protein IMP3 is a novel regulator of MEK1/ERK signaling pathway in the progression of colorectal Cancer through the stabilization of MEKK1 mRNA

MEK1/ERK signaling pathway plays an important role in most tumor progression, including colorectal cancer (CRC), however, MEK1-targeting therapy has little effective in treating CRC patients, indicating there ...

Authors: Meng Zhang, Senlin Zhao, Cong Tan, Yanzi Gu, Xuefeng He, Xiang Du, Dawei Li and Ping Wei

Zinc transporter SLC39A13/ZIP13 facilitates the metastasis of human ovarian cancer cells via activating Src/FAK signaling pathway

Zinc transporters have been found to be associated with the pathogenesis of numerous human diseases including cancer. As the most lethal gynecologic malignancy, ovarian cancer is characterized by rapid progres...

Authors: Xinxin Cheng, Jie Wang, Chunling Liu, Tianduo Jiang, Ningzhi Yang, Dan Liu, Huanhuan Zhao and Zhelong Xu

Integrated multi-omics analyses on patient-derived CRC organoids highlight altered molecular pathways in colorectal cancer progression involving PTEN

Colorectal cancer (CRC) represents the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths. The heterogeneity of CRC identity limits the usage of cell lines to study this type of tumor because of the limited represe...

Authors: Marta Codrich, Emiliano Dalla, Catia Mio, Giulia Antoniali, Matilde Clarissa Malfatti, Stefania Marzinotto, Mariaelena Pierobon, Elisa Baldelli, Carla Di Loreto, Giuseppe Damante, Giovanni Terrosu, Carlo Ennio Michele Pucillo and Gianluca Tell

Interfering with Tumor Hypoxia for Radiotherapy Optimization

Hypoxia in solid tumors is an important predictor of treatment resistance and poor clinical outcome. The significance of hypoxia in the development of resistance to radiotherapy has been recognized for decades...

Authors: Irma Telarovic, Roland H. Wenger and Martin Pruschy

Circulating tumor DNA tracking through driver mutations as a liquid biopsy-based biomarker for uveal melanoma

Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common intraocular tumor in adults. Despite good primary tumor control, up to 50% of patients develop metastasis, which is lethal. UM often presents asymptomatically and is usua...

Authors: Prisca Bustamante, Thupten Tsering, Jacqueline Coblentz, Christina Mastromonaco, Mohamed Abdouh, Cristina Fonseca, Rita P. Proença, Nadya Blanchard, Claude Laure Dugé, Rafaella Atherino Schmidt Andujar, Emma Youhnovska, Miguel N. Burnier, Sonia A. Callejo and Julia V. Burnier

TRIM37 orchestrates renal cell carcinoma progression via histone H2A ubiquitination-dependent manner

Ubiquitylation modification is one of the multiple post-transcriptional process to regulate cellular physiology, including cell signaling, cycle regulation, DNA repair and transcriptional regulation. Members o...

Authors: Chenkui Miao, Chao Liang, Pu Li, Bianjiang Liu, Chao Qin, Han Yuan, Yiyang Liu, Jundong Zhu, Yankang Cui, Aiming Xu, Shangqian Wang, Shifeng Su, Jie Li, Pengfei Shao and Zengjun Wang

Aberrant Bcl-x splicing in cancer: from molecular mechanism to therapeutic modulation

Bcl-x pre-mRNA splicing serves as a typical example to study the impact of alternative splicing in the modulation of cell death. Dysregulation of Bcl-x apoptotic isoforms caused by precarious equilibrium splic...

Authors: Zhihui Dou, Dapeng Zhao, Xiaohua Chen, Caipeng Xu, Xiaodong Jin, Xuetian Zhang, Yupei Wang, Xiaodong Xie, Qiang Li, Cuixia Di and Hong Zhang

CircPVT1 promotes proliferation of lung squamous cell carcinoma by binding to miR-30d/e

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a new type of extensive non-coding RNAs that regulate the activation and progression of different human diseases, including cancer. However, information on the underlying mechanism...

Authors: Jie Shi, Xin Lv, Lizhong Zeng, Wei Li, Yujie Zhong, Jingyan Yuan, Shanshan Deng, Boxuan Liu, Bo Yuan, Yang Chen, Zongjuan Ming, Xia Yang, Ping Fang, Shuanying Yang and Guoan Chen

CD151 drives cancer progression depending on integrin α3β1 through EGFR signaling in non-small cell lung cancer

Tetraspanins CD151, a transmembrane 4 superfamily protein, has been identified participating in the initiation of a variety of cancers. However, the precise function of CD151 in non-small cell lung cancer (NSC...

Authors: Jianjie Zhu, Tingting Cai, Jieqi Zhou, Wenwen Du, Yuanyuan Zeng, Ting Liu, Yulong Fu, Yue Li, Qian Qian, Xiuwei H. Yang, Qinglin Li, Jian-an Huang and Zeyi Liu

Glycoproteomics identifies HOMER3 as a potentially targetable biomarker triggered by hypoxia and glucose deprivation in bladder cancer

Muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) remains amongst the deadliest genitourinary malignancies due to treatment failure and extensive molecular heterogeneity, delaying effective targeted therapeutics. Hypoxia ...

Authors: Andreia Peixoto, Dylan Ferreira, Rita Azevedo, Rui Freitas, Elisabete Fernandes, Marta Relvas-Santos, Cristiana Gaiteiro, Janine Soares, Sofia Cotton, Beatriz Teixeira, Paula Paulo, Luís Lima, Carlos Palmeira, Gabriela Martins, Maria José Oliveira, André M. N. Silva…

Natural product triptolide induces GSDME-mediated pyroptosis in head and neck cancer through suppressing mitochondrial hexokinase-ΙΙ

Pyroptosis is a lytic cell death form executed by gasdermins family proteins. Induction of tumor pyroptosis promotes anti-tumor immunity and is a potential cancer treatment strategy. Triptolide (TPL) is a natu...

Authors: Jing Cai, Mei Yi, Yixin Tan, Xiaoling Li, Guiyuan Li, Zhaoyang Zeng, Wei Xiong and Bo Xiang

A review of the biological and clinical implications of RAS-MAPK pathway alterations in neuroblastoma

Neuroblastoma is the most common extra-cranial solid tumor in children, representing approximately 8% of all malignant childhood tumors and 15% of pediatric cancer-related deaths. Recent sequencing and transcr...

Authors: Vid Mlakar, Edouard Morel, Simona Jurkovic Mlakar, Marc Ansari and Fabienne Gumy-Pause

A HIF1α-GPD1 feedforward loop inhibits the progression of renal clear cell carcinoma via mitochondrial function and lipid metabolism

Hypoxia signaling, especially the hypoxia inducible factor (HIF) pathway, is a major player in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), which is characterized by disorders in lipid and glycogen metabolism. How...

Authors: Ren Liu, Yuanfa Feng, Yulin Deng, Zhihao Zou, Jianheng Ye, Zhiduan Cai, Xuejin Zhu, Yingke Liang, Jianming Lu, Hui Zhang, Yong Luo, Zhaodong Han, Yangjia Zhuo, Qingling Xie, Chi Tin Hon, Yuxiang Liang…

A novel lncRNA ARST represses glioma progression by inhibiting ALDOA-mediated actin cytoskeleton integrity

Glioma is one of the most aggressive malignant brain tumors that is characterized with inevitably infiltrative growth and poor prognosis. ARST is a novel lncRNA whose expression level is significantly decrease...

Authors: Jun Sun, Dong He, Yibing Fu, Rui Zhang, Hua Guo, Zhaojuan Wang, Yanan Wang, Taihong Gao, Yanbang Wei, Yuji Guo, Qi Pang and Qian Liu

Determinants of resistance to VEGF-TKI and immune checkpoint inhibitors in metastatic renal cell carcinoma

Vascular endothelial growth factor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (VEGF-TKIs) have been the mainstay of treatment for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Despite its early promising results in decre...

Authors: Revati Sharma, Elif Kadife, Mark Myers, George Kannourakis, Prashanth Prithviraj and Nuzhat Ahmed

Preclinical models as patients’ avatars for precision medicine in colorectal cancer: past and future challenges

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a complex and heterogeneous disease, characterized by dismal prognosis and low survival rate in the advanced (metastatic) stage. During the last decade, the establishment of novel pr...

Authors: Erika Durinikova, Kristi Buzo and Sabrina Arena

Regulatory mechanisms of immune checkpoints PD-L1 and CTLA-4 in cancer

The cytotoxic T-lymphocyte–associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4)/B7 and programmed death 1 (PD-1)/ programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) are two most representative immune checkpoint pathways, which negatively regula...

Authors: Hao Zhang, Ziyu Dai, Wantao Wu, Zeyu Wang, Nan Zhang, Liyang Zhang, Wen-Jing Zeng, Zhixiong Liu and Quan Cheng

LINC00511 drives invasive behavior in hepatocellular carcinoma by regulating exosome secretion and invadopodia formation

Tumor cells are known to release large numbers of exosomes containing active substances that participate in cancer progression. Abnormally expressed long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been confirmed to regulat...

Authors: Xueqiang Peng, Xinyu Li, Shuo Yang, Mingyao Huang, Shibo Wei, Yingbo Ma, Yan Li, Bo Wu, Hongyuan Jin, Bowen Li, Shilei Tang, Qing Fan, Jingang Liu, Liang Yang and Hangyu Li

Group III phospholipase A2 downregulation attenuated survival and metastasis in ovarian cancer and promotes chemo-sensitization

Aberrant lipogenicity and deregulated autophagy are common in most advanced human cancer and therapeutic strategies to exploit these pathways are currently under consideration. Group III Phospholipase A2 (sPLA...

Authors: Upasana Ray, Debarshi Roy, Ling Jin, Prabhu Thirusangu, Julie Staub, Yinan Xiao, Eleftheria Kalogera, Andrea E. Wahner Hendrickson, Grace D. Cullen, Krista Goergen, Ann L. Oberg and Viji Shridhar

Correction to: Akt/FoxM1 signaling pathway-mediated upregulation of MYBL2 promotes progression of human glioma

Authors: Xue Zhang, Qiao-Li LV, Yuan-Tao Huang, Li-Hua Zhang and Hong-Hao Zhou

Cell surface Nucleolin represents a novel cellular target for neuroblastoma therapy

Neuroblastoma (NB) represents the most frequent and aggressive form of extracranial solid tumor of infants. Nucleolin (NCL) is a protein overexpressed and partially localized on the cell surface of tumor cells...

Authors: Chiara Brignole, Veronica Bensa, Nuno A. Fonseca, Genny Del Zotto, Silvia Bruno, Ana F. Cruz, Fabiana Malaguti, Barbara Carlini, Fabio Morandi, Enzo Calarco, Patrizia Perri, Vera Moura, Laura Emionite, Michele Cilli, Francesco De Leonardis, Annalisa Tondo…

Hypoxic tumor-derived exosomal miR-31-5p promotes lung adenocarcinoma metastasis by negatively regulating SATB2-reversed EMT and activating MEK/ERK signaling

Exosomes have emerged as critical mediators of intercellular communication. Hypoxia is widely recognized as a key regulator of tumor aggressiveness, and significantly affects exosome release by tumor cells. Ho...

Authors: Fengqiang Yu, Mingqiang Liang, Yu Huang, Weidong Wu, Bin Zheng and Chun Chen

Patient-derived tumor models: a more suitable tool for pre-clinical studies in colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer (CRC), despite the advances in screening and surveillance, remains the second most common cause of cancer death worldwide. The biological inadequacy of pre-clinical models to fully recapitula...

Authors: Giulia Rizzo, Andrea Bertotti, Simonetta Maria Leto and Stefania Vetrano

Exosomal DLX6-AS1 from hepatocellular carcinoma cells induces M2 macrophage polarization to promote migration and invasion in hepatocellular carcinoma through microRNA-15a-5p/CXCL17 axis

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells-secreted exosomes (exo) could stimulate M2 macrophage polarization and promote HCC progression, but the related mechanism of long non-coding RNA distal-less homeobox 6 anti...

Authors: Lin-pei Wang, Jing Lin, Xiao-qiu Ma, Dong-yao Xu, Chun-feng Shi, Wei Wang and Xiao-jie Jiang

Correction to: Linc-SCRG1 accelerates progression of hepatocellular carcinoma as a ceRNA of miR26a to derepress SKP2

Authors: Jun-Jie Hu, Cui Zhou, Xin Luo, Sheng-Zheng Luo, Zheng-Hong Li, Zi-Xin Xu and Ming-Yi Xu

Deciphering the temporal heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblast subpopulations in breast cancer

Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) comprise a heterogeneous population of stromal cells within the tumour microenvironment. CAFs exhibit both tumour-promoting and tumour-suppressing functions, making them ex...

Authors: Freja Albjerg Venning, Kamilla Westarp Zornhagen, Lena Wullkopf, Jonas Sjölund, Carmen Rodriguez-Cupello, Pontus Kjellman, Mikkel Morsing, Morteza Chalabi Hajkarim, Kyoung Jae Won, Janine Terra Erler and Chris Denis Madsen

Super-enhancers: a new frontier for epigenetic modifiers in cancer chemoresistance

Although new developments of surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and immunotherapy treatments for cancer have improved patient survival, the emergence of chemoresistance in cancer has significant impacts on t...

Authors: Guo-Hua Li, Qiang Qu, Ting-Ting Qi, Xin-Qi Teng, Hai-Hong Zhu, Jiao-Jiao Wang, Qiong Lu and Jian Qu

Targeting SERT promotes tryptophan metabolism: mechanisms and implications in colon cancer treatment

Serotonin signaling has been associated with tumorigenesis and tumor progression. Targeting the serotonin transporter to block serotonin cellular uptake confers antineoplastic effects in various tumors, includ...

Authors: Di Ye, Huanji Xu, Hongwei Xia, Chenliang Zhang, Qiulin Tang and Feng Bi

Advances in drug development for hepatocellular carcinoma: clinical trials and potential therapeutic targets

Although hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the deadliest health burdens worldwide, few drugs are available for its clinical treatment. However, in recent years, major breakthroughs have been made in the...

Authors: Xiang-Yuan Luo, Kong-Ming Wu and Xing-Xing He

Splicing factor SRSF1 promotes breast cancer progression via oncogenic splice switching of PTPMT1

Intensive evidence has highlighted the effect of aberrant alternative splicing (AS) events on cancer progression when triggered by dysregulation of the SR protein family. Nonetheless, the underlying mechanism ...

Authors: Jun-Xian Du, Yi-Hong Luo, Si-Jia Zhang, Biao Wang, Cong Chen, Gui-Qi Zhu, Ping Zhu, Cheng-Zhe Cai, Jing-Lei Wan, Jia-Liang Cai, Shi-Ping Chen, Zhi Dai and Wei Zhu

HSP90-dependent PUS7 overexpression facilitates the metastasis of colorectal cancer cells by regulating LASP1 abundance

Pseudouridine synthase (PUS) 7 is a member of the PUS family that catalyses pseudouridine formation. It has been shown to be involved in intellectual development and haematological malignancies. Nevertheless, ...

Authors: Dan Song, Ming Guo, Shuai Xu, Xiaotian Song, Bin Bai, Zhengyan Li, Jie Chen, Yanxin An, Yongzhan Nie, Kaichun Wu, Shiqi Wang and Qingchuan Zhao

Inhibition of DEC2 is necessary for exiting cell dormancy in salivary adenoid cystic carcinoma

Patients were prone to have poor prognosis once dormant tumor cells being reactivated. However, the molecular mechanism of tumor cell dormancy remains poorly understood. This study aimed to investigate the fun...

Authors: Xiao Yang, Jia-shun Wu, Mao Li, Wei-long Zhang, Xiao-lei Gao, Hao-fan Wang, Xiang-hua Yu, Xin Pang, Mei Zhang, Xin-hua Liang and Ya-ling Tang

SLC6A8-mediated intracellular creatine accumulation enhances hypoxic breast cancer cell survival via ameliorating oxidative stress

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive subtype of breast cancer, with poor prognosis and limited treatment options. Hypoxia is a key hallmark of TNBC. Metabolic adaptation promotes progres...

Authors: Qiao Li, Manran Liu, Yan Sun, Ting Jin, Pengpeng Zhu, Xueying Wan, Yixuan Hou and Gang Tu

Correction to: Downregulation of lncRNA ZNF582-AS1 due to DNA hypermethylation promotes clear cell renal cell carcinoma growth and metastasis by regulating the N(6)-methyladenosine modification of MT-RNR1

Authors: Wuping Yang, Kenan Zhang, Lei Li, Yawei Xu, Kaifang Ma, Haibiao Xie, Jingcheng Zhou, Lin Cai, Yanqing Gong and Kan Gong

MYLK4 promotes tumor progression through the activation of epidermal growth factor receptor signaling in osteosarcoma

Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common primary bone cancer in adolescents and lung metastasis is the leading cause of death in patients with OS. However, the molecular mechanisms that promote OS growth and metas...

Authors: Mengkai Yang, Tao Zhang, Yangfeng Zhang, Xiaojun Ma, Jing Han, Ke Zeng, Yafei Jiang, Zongyi Wang, Zhuoying Wang, Jing Xu, Yingqi Hua, Zhengdong Cai and Wei Sun

The potential role of the extracellular matrix in the activity of trabectedin in UPS and L-sarcoma: evidences from a patient‐derived primary culture case series in tridimensional and zebrafish models

Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) are a rare group of solid neoplasm including among others liposarcoma, leiomyosarcoma (L-sarcoma) and undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS) entities. The current first-line trea...

Authors: Alessandro De Vita, Federica Recine, Giacomo Miserocchi, Federica Pieri, Chiara Spadazzi, Claudia Cocchi, Silvia Vanni, Chiara Liverani, Anna Farnedi, Francesco Fabbri, Valentina Fausti, Roberto Casadei, Francesca Brandolini, Giorgio Ercolani, Davide Cavaliere, Alberto Bongiovanni…

Warburg effect-promoted exosomal circ_0072083 releasing up-regulates NANGO expression through multiple pathways and enhances temozolomide resistance in glioma

Temozolomide (TMZ) resistance limits its application in glioma. Exosome can carry circular RNAs (circRNAs) to regulate drug resistance via sponging microRNAs (miRNAs). miRNAs can control mRNA expression by reg...

Authors: Chenyu Ding, Xuehan Yi, Xiangrong Chen, Zanyi Wu, Honghai You, Xiaoyong Chen, Gaoqi Zhang, Yong Sun, Xingyao Bu, Xiyue Wu, Zhangya Lin, Jianjun Gu, Yuanxiang Lin and Dezhi Kang

What are the applications of single-cell RNA sequencing in cancer research: a systematic review

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a tool for studying gene expression at the single-cell level that has been widely used due to its unprecedented high resolution. In the present review, we outline the ...

Authors: Lvyuan Li, Fang Xiong, Yumin Wang, Shanshan Zhang, Zhaojian Gong, Xiayu Li, Yi He, Lei Shi, Fuyan Wang, Qianjin Liao, Bo Xiang, Ming Zhou, Xiaoling Li, Yong Li, Guiyuan Li, Zhaoyang Zeng…