He also investigates the effects of 2HG
inhibitors on cancer cells.
Not exact matches
«This model was trained
on genetic data from human tumors in The
Cancer Genome Atlas and was able to predict response to certain inhibitors that affect cancers with overactive Ras signaling in an encyclopedia of cancer cell lines,» Greene
Cancer Genome Atlas and was able to predict response to certain
inhibitors that affect
cancers with overactive Ras signaling in an encyclopedia of
cancer cell lines,» Greene
cancer cell lines,» Greene said.
Figure
on the left: Analyzing the relative sensitivity of hundreds of
cancer cell lines to commonly used anti-
cancer drugs (each dot) reveals that
cells with suppressed expression of one proteasome cap subunit are specifically resistant to treatments with the proteasome
inhibitors MG132 and bortezomib.
In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Roland Schüle and his team at the Center of Clinical Research of the Freiburg University Medical Center, the scientists were able to test several epigenetic
inhibitors that had been newly developed by Schüle and his team
on the
cancer stem
cell model.
PARP
inhibitors target and block proteins which
cancer cells depend
on to repair DNA for their survival.
The researchers demonstrated that blocking the PGD enzyme genetically or with a pharmacologic
inhibitor reversed the epigenetic reprogramming and malignant gene expression changes detected in distant metastases, and also strongly inhibited their tumor - forming capacity, with no effect
on normal
cells or peritoneal pancreatic
cancer controls.
Partnering with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed Doebele and colleagues to access clinical trial data describing initial tumor response, PFS and OS for 305 patients with stage IIIb or IV non-small
cell lung
cancer on trials of ALK
inhibitors and 355 similar patients
on trials of immunotherapies directed at PD - 1.
«These
inhibitors not only target
cancer cells but may also have a negative impact
on the immune system and NK
cells.
In addition, if genifitib, an
inhibitor to EGFR itself
on the market for lung
cancer, is added to the
cell, the
cells die.
Most integrin
inhibitor drugs target their adhesive function and block them
on the surface of the
cancer cell.
The researchers, including scientists from pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, report in an advanced online publication in Nature Medicine
on May 4, that their findings indicate «an underappreciated genomic heterogeneity» in mechanisms of resistance to tyrosine kinase
inhibitor (TKI) drugs that target the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) mutation that drive some cases of non-small
cell lung
cancer (NSCLC).
Since then, other checkpoint
inhibitors have been developed and commercialised to block a T -
cell receptor called PD - 1 or its ligand PD - L1, present
on some normal
cells as well as
cancer cells.
Matriptase and its cognate
inhibitor, HGF activator
inhibitor 1 (HAI - 1) colocalize
on the
cell periphery of breast
cancer cells and form stable complexes in the extracellular milieu, suggesting that the
inhibitor serves to prevent undesired proteolysis in these
cells.
«We showed that there are markers
on these stomach tumour
cells that indicate they would be responsive to a type of immunotherapy called immune checkpoint
inhibitors, in particular anti-PDL1 immunotherapy, which is already used with great success in the treatment of melanoma and certain other
cancers.
Title: BRCA1 - deficient mammary tumor
cells are dependent
on EZH2 expression and sensitive to PCR2 -
inhibitor DZNep Authors: Puppe J, Drost R, Liu X, Joosse SA, Evers B, Cornelissen - Steijger P, Nederlof P, Yu Q, Jonkers J, van Lohuizen M, Pietersen AM Date: 2009 Publication Details: Breast
Cancer Research 2009, 11: R63 doi: 10.1186 / bcr2354
Title of thesis: «Study of the pro-apoptotic effect of histones deacetylases
inhibitors, used alone and concurrently with chemotherapeutic agents,
on human lung
cancer cells».
A new class of
inhibitors offers a novel way to treat lung
cancer with minimal toxic side effects on normal cells, according to a laboratory study funded through philanthropic contributions to the Lung Cancer Moon
cancer with minimal toxic side effects
on normal
cells, according to a laboratory study funded through philanthropic contributions to the Lung
Cancer Moon
Cancer Moon Shot.
Also, a 2012 study published
on the Medical Journal 3 Biotech shows that the anti-
cancer compounds in mushrooms play a crucial role as a reactive oxygen species inducer, mitotic kinase
inhibitor, antimitotic, angiogenesis
inhibitor, topoisomerase
inhibitor all leading to apoptosis (
cell death) and eventually checking
cancer cell proliferation (4).