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    Connecting copper and cancer: from transition metal signalling to metalloplasia

    Copper is an essential nutrient whose redox properties make it both beneficial and toxic to the cell. Recent progress in studying transition metal signalling has forged new links between researchers of differe...

    Eva J. Ge, Ashley I. Bush, Angela Casini, Paul A. Cobine in Nature Reviews Cancer (2022)

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    The role of ferroptosis in lung cancer

    Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. Although medical treatment has made impressive progress in recent years, it is still one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in men and wo...

    Sikai Wu, Chengchu Zhu, Daolin Tang, Q. ** Dou, Jianfei Shen in Biomarker Research (2021)

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    Proteasomal cysteine deubiquitinase inhibitor b-AP15 suppresses migration and induces apoptosis in diffuse large B cell lymphoma

    The first line therapy for patients with diffuse large B cell (DLBCL) is R-CHOP. About half of DLBCL patients are either refractory to, or will relapse, after the treatment. Therefore, identifying novel drug t...

    Liling Jiang, Yuening Sun, **xiang Wang in Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer … (2019)

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    Q. ** Dou in Cancer and Metastasis Reviews (2017)

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    Targeting the ubiquitin-proteasome system for cancer treatment: discovering novel inhibitors from nature and drug repurposing

    In the past 15 years, the proteasome has been validated as an anti-cancer drug target and 20S proteasome inhibitors (such as bortezomib and carfilzomib) have been approved by the FDA for the treatment of multi...

    Claire L. Soave, Tracey Guerin, **bao Liu, Q. ** Dou in Cancer and Metastasis Reviews (2017)

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    Metal-based proteasomal deubiquitinase inhibitors as potential anticancer agents

    Deubiquitinases (DUBs) play an important role in protein quality control in eukaryotic cells due to their ability to specifically remove ubiquitin from substrate proteins. Therefore, recent findings have focus...

    **n Chen, Qianqian Yang, Lu **ao, Daolin Tang, Q. ** Dou in Cancer and Metastasis Reviews (2017)

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    Gene–environment interactions between JAZF1 and occupational and household lead exposure in prostate cancer among African American men

    A single nucleotide polymorphism, rs10486567, in JAZF1 has consistently been associated with increased risk of prostate cancer. The physical interaction of zinc finger proteins, such as JAZF1, with heavy metals m...

    Christine Neslund-Dudas, Albert M. Levin in Cancer Causes & Control (2014)

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    Resistance to Proteasome Inhibitors in Cancer

    Molecular Mechanisms and Strategies to Overcome Resistance

    Q. ** Dou in Resistance to Targeted Anti-Cancer Therapeutics (2014)

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    Proteasome Inhibitors and Lessons Learned from Their Mechanisms of Action and Resistance in Human Cancer

    Selective protein degradation by the ubiquitin–proteasome pathway (UPP) is critical to cellular homeostasis, and dysregulation of the UPP has been associated with human diseases including cancer. Proteasome in...

    Sara M. Schmitt, Rahul R. Deshmukh in Resistance to Proteasome Inhibitors in Can… (2014)

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    Proteasome Inhibition as a Novel Strategy for Cancer Treatment

    The proteasome is a multi-subunit protease complex, responsible for the degradation of misfolded, damaged, or short-lived proteins. Indeed, more than 90 % of intracellular proteins are degraded through the ubi...

    Min Shen, Q. ** Dou in Cell Death Signaling in Cancer Biology and Treatment (2013)

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    Nutritional Compounds as Chemopreventive Agents by Proteasome Inhibition

    Nutritional phytochemicals, distributed throughout the plant kingdom, possess anticancer activities associated with their consumption. This chapter will focus on the cellular activities of phytochemicals, thei...

    Kristin Landis-Piwowar, Elizabeth Smerczak, Jian Zuo in Nutrition, Diet and Cancer (2012)

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    Targeted proteasome inhibition by Velcade induces apoptosis in human mesothelioma and breast cancer cell lines

    Thoracic malignancies and human breast cancer (HBC) continue to be aggressive solid tumors that are poor responders to the existing conventional standard chemotherapeutic approaches. Malignant pleural mesothel...

    Ying Wang, Arun K. Rishi in Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology (2010)

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    Inhibition of proteasome activity by the dietary flavonoid apigenin is associated with growth inhibition in cultured breast cancer cells and xenografts

    Proteasome inhibition is an attractive approach to anticancer therapy and may have relevancy in breast cancer treatment. Natural products, such as dietary flavonoids, have been suggested as natural proteasome ...

    Di Chen, Kristin R Landis-Piwowar, Marina S Chen, Q ** Dou in Breast Cancer Research (2007)

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    Clioquinol and pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate complex with copper to form proteasome inhibitors and apoptosis inducers in human breast cancer cells

    A physiological feature of many tumor tissues and cells is the tendency to accumulate high concentrations of copper. While the precise role of copper in tumors is cryptic, copper, but not other trace metals, i...

    Kenyon G Daniel, Di Chen, Shirley Orlu, Qiuzhi Cindy Cui in Breast Cancer Research (2005)

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    Cell Cycle and Drug Sensitivity

    Induction of tumor cell death by chemotherapeutic modalities often occurs in a cell cycle-dependent manner. It has also been observed that several regulatory proteins involved in tumor chemosensitivity and apo...

    Aslamuzzaman Kazi, Q. ** Dou in Chemosensitivity: Volume II (2005)