Vitamin D is a steroid hormone crucial for bone mineral metabolism. In addition, vitamin D has pleiotropic actions in the body, including anti-cancer actions. These anti-cancer properties observed within in vitro studies frequently report the reducti...
Cell cycle progression is an elaborate process that requires stringent control for normal cellular function. Defects in cell cycle control, however, contribute to genomic instability and have become a characteristic phenomenon in cancers. Over the ye...
Natural chemicals derived from herbal plants have recently been recognized as potentially useful treatment alternatives owing to their ability to target a wide range of important biological molecules. Cynaroside is one of these natural compounds with...
The mammalian cell cycle is governed by a network of cyclin/Cdk complexes which signal the progression into the successive phases of the cell division cycle. Once coupled to the circadian clock, this network produces oscillations with a 24 h period s...
In the past decade, cell cycle regulators have extended their canonical role in cell cycle progression to the regulation of various cellular processes, including cellular metabolism. The regulation of metabolism is intimately connected with the funct...
Silibinin, an effective anti-cancer and chemopreventive agent in various epithelial cancer models, has been reported to inhibit cancer cell growth through mitogenic signaling pathways. However, whether it can inhibit human pancreatic carcinoma growth...
Deregulation of cell cycle, via cyclin D/CDK/pRb pathway, is frequently observed in breast cancer lending support to the development of drugs targeting the cell cycle control machinery, like the inhibitors of the cycline-dependent kinases (CDK) 4 and...
The cell cycle involves a network of proteins that modulate the sequence and timing of proliferation events. Unregulated proliferation is the most fundamental hallmark of cancer; thus, changes in cell cycle control are at the heart of malignant trans...
The liver acts as a hub for metabolic reactions to keep a homeostatic balance during development and growth. The process of liver cancer development, although poorly understood, is related to different etiologic factors like toxins, alcohol, or viral...
Cancer, a disease of inappropriate cell proliferation, is strongly interconnected with the cell cycle. All cancers consist of an abnormal accumulation of neoplastic cells, which are propagated toward uncontrolled cell division and proliferation in re...
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for 85~90% of lung cancer cases, with a poor prognosis and a low 5-year survival rate. Sphingosine kinase-1 (SPHK1), a key enzyme in regulating sphingolipid metabolism, has been reported to be involved in t...
Cancer is the second most fatal disease worldwide, with colon cancer being the third most prevalent and fatal form of cancer in several Western countries. The risk of acquisition of resistance to chemotherapy remains a significant hurdle in the manag...
p53 is a common tumor suppressor, and its mutation drives tumorigenesis. What is more, p53 mutations have also been reported to be indicative of poor prognosis in lung cancer, but the detailed mechanism has not been elucidated. In this study, we foun...
Precise modulation of the cell cycle via electromagnetic (EM) control presents a groundbreaking approach for cancer therapy, especially in the development of personalized treatment strategies. EM fields can precisely regulate key cellular homeostatic...
The main chemical component of cannabis, cannabidiol (CBD), has been shown to have antitumor properties. The present study examined the in vitro effects of CBD on human gastric cancer SGC-7901 cells. We found that CBD significantly inhibited the prol...
The development of HER2-targeted therapies has dramatically improved patient survival and patient management and increased the quality of life in the HER2+ breast cancer patient population. Due to the activation of compensatory pathways, patients eve...
Progress in chemotherapy of solid cancer has been tragically slow due, in large part, to the chemoresistance of quiescent cancer cells in tumors. The fluorescence ubiquitination cell-cycle indicator (FUCCI) was developed in 2008 by Miyawaki et al., w...
HMGA1 is a chromatin-binding protein and performs its biological function by remodeling chromatin structure or recruiting other transcription factors. However, the role of abnormally high level of HMGA1 in cancer cells and its regulatory mechanism st...
Eukaryotic cells double their mass and divide at the same rate, allowing cells to maintain a uniform cell size over many cell divisions. We hypothesize that aneuploid cancer cells are more sensitive to forced overgrowth, more than doubling their mass...
Globally, there were 14.1 million new cancer diagnoses and 8.2 million cancer deaths in 2012. For many cancers, conventional therapies are limited in their successes and an improved understanding of disease progression is needed in conjunction with e...
Dynamic regulation in molecular networks including cell cycle regulation and DNA damage response play an important role in cancer. To reveal the feature of cancer malignancy, gene expression and network regulation were profiled in diffuse- and intest...
The transcriptional co-factor cell-cycle-related and expression-elevated protein in tumors (CREPT) has emerged as a critical driver of the cell cycle and a significant contributor to tumorigenesis. The aberrant expression or upregulation of CREPT boo...
The urea cycle (UC) removes the excess nitrogen and ammonia generated by nitrogen-containing compound composites or protein breakdown in the human body. Research has shown that changes in UC enzymes are not only related to tumorigenesis and tumor dev...
Background: Metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa) is marked by heterogeneity and therapy resistance, which arise from prolonged therapy regimens. This heterogeneity is reflected in various morphologic and genetic characteristics, biomarker expression, an...
Tumor cells invade normal surrounding tissues through continuous division. In this study, we hypothesized that cell cycle regulation changes the immune efficacy of ovarian cancer. To investigate this hypothesis, a Förster resonance energy transf...
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive cancer entities, with an extremely poor 5-year survival rate. Therefore, novel therapeutic agents with specific modes of action are urgently needed. Marine organisms represent a promising source to iden...
Various studies have shown that the cell-cycle-related regulatory proteins UBE2C, PLK1, and BIRC5 promote cell proliferation and migration in different types of cancer. However, there is a lack of in-depth and systematic research on the mechanism of...
The divalent cation-selective channel transient receptor potential melastatin 7 (TRPM7) channel was shown to affect the proliferation of some types of cancer cell. However, the function of TRPM7 in the viability of breast cancer cells remains unclear...
Mitoregulin (MTLN) is a 56-amino-acid mitochondrial microprotein known to modulate mitochondrial energetics. MTLN gene expression is elevated broadly across most cancers and has been proposed as a prognostic biomarker for non-small cell lung cancer (...
Parthenolide, the principal component of sesquiterpene lactones present in medical plants such as feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium), has been reported to have anti-tumor activity. In this study, we evaluated the therapeutic potential of parthenolide ag...
Background: The cell cycle, a critical and intricate biological process, comprises various phases, and its dysregulation plays a pivotal role in tumorigenesis and metastasis. The exploration of cell cycle-based molecular subtypes across pan-cancers,...
Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the primary cause of cancer-related mortality in women. Treatment of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains particularly challenging due to its resistance to chemotherapy and poor p...
Sirtuins (SIRTs), which are nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide-dependent class III histone deacetylases, regulate cell division, survival, and senescence. Although sirtinol, a synthetic SIRT inhibitor, is known to exhibit antitumor effects, its mechan...
Serotonin or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) has been implicated in promoting cancer cell growth by acting on 5-HT receptors, such as 5-HT1 and 5-HT2 receptors. However, the role of 5-HT3 receptor antagonists in gastric cancer cell lines remains unclear....
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease from the histological and molecular expression point of view, and this heterogeneity determines cancer aggressiveness. Store-operated Ca2+ entry (SOCE), a major mechanism for Ca2+ entry in non-excitable cells,...
In cell development, the cell cycle is crucial, and the cycle progression’s main controllers are endogenous CDK inhibitors, cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs), and cyclins. In response to the mitogenic signal, cyclin D is produced and retinoblastoma pro...
Lithium has been identified more than six decades ago as a preferred treatment option for manic depression. Due to its affordability, stability, minimal side effects, and immunomodulatory effects, recent studies on lithium have focused on its potenti...
Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) are serine/threonine kinases whose catalytic activities are regulated by interactions with cyclins and CDK inhibitors (CKIs). CDKs are key regulatory enzymes involved in cell proliferation through regulating cell-cycle...
Cyclin D1, an important regulator of cell cycle, carries out a central role in the pathogenesis of cancer determining uncontrolled cellular proliferation. In normal cells, Cyclin D1 expression levels are strictly regulated, conversely, in cancer, its...
WD repeat and HMG-box DNA-binding protein 1 (WDHD1) has been identified as a crucial oncogene in various tumors, but its role in pancreatic cancer remains unexplored. This study investigated the mechanisms by which WDHD1 contributes to pancreatic can...
This study aimed at understanding the effect of metformin on histone H3 methylation, DNA methylation, and chromatin accessibility in lung cancer cells. Metformin significantly reduced H3K4me3 level at the promoters of positive cell cycle regulatory g...
Papaverine (PPV) is an alkaloid isolated from the Papaver somniferum. Research has shown that PPV inhibits proliferation. However, several questions remain regarding the effects of PPV in tumorigenic cells. In this study, the influence of PPV was inv...
Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequently diagnosed malignancy in women worldwide. Despite therapeutic advances, disease relapse and metastasis remain major challenges and drivers of mortality. Fascin, an actin-bundling protein, promotes BC progressi...
Cancer pathogenesis results from genetic alteration-induced high or low transcriptional programs, which become highly dependent on regulators of gene expression. However, their role in progressive regulation of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and...
Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1α) is a regulatory factor of intracellular oxygen supersession. The expression or increased activity of HIF-1α is closely related to various human cancers. Previously, IDF-11774 was demonstrated to i...
Breast cancer is considered as one of the most aggressive types of cancer. Acquired therapeutic resistance is the major cause of chemotherapy failure in breast cancer patients. To overcome this resistance and to improve the efficacy of treatment, dru...
Breast cancer stands out as one of the most prevalent malignancies worldwide, necessitating a nuanced understanding of its molecular underpinnings for effective treatment. Hormone receptors in breast cancer cells substantially influence treatment str...
Cancer is a disease with the highest mortality and morbidity rate worldwide. First-line drugs induce several side effects that drastically reduce the quality of life of people with this disease. Finding molecules to prevent it or generate less aggres...
Epidemiological investigations have shown that overcoming the risk of cancer is related to the consumption of green vegetables and fruits. Many compounds from different origins, such as terrestrial plants and marine and microbial sources, have been r...
Cervical cancer remains a significant global health concern, causing more than 300,000 deaths annually. Erythrina velutina, a tree native to north-eastern Brazil, contains bioactive alkaloids with potential anticancer properties. This study aimed to...
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