Search Results - "Lee, Erinna F"
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BECLIN1: Protein Structure, Function and Regulation
Published in Cells (Basel, Switzerland) (17-06-2021)“…BECLIN1 is a well-established regulator of autophagy, a process essential for mammalian survival. It functions in conjunction with other proteins to form Class…”
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Bax Crystal Structures Reveal How BH3 Domains Activate Bax and Nucleate Its Oligomerization to Induce Apoptosis
Published in Cell (31-01-2013)“…In stressed cells, apoptosis ensues when Bcl-2 family members Bax or Bak oligomerize and permeabilize the mitochondrial outer membrane. Certain BH3-only…”
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Co-Operativity between MYC and BCL-2 Pro-Survival Proteins in Cancer
Published in International journal of molecular sciences (11-03-2021)“…B-Cell Lymphoma 2 (BCL-2), c-MYC and related proteins are arguably amongst the most widely studied in all of biology. Every year there are thousands of papers…”
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The Structural Biology of Bcl-xL
Published in International journal of molecular sciences (07-05-2019)“…Interactions between the pro-survival and pro-apoptotic members of the Bcl-2 family of proteins dictate whether a cell lives or dies. Much of our knowledge of…”
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Anti-apoptotic Mcl-1 is essential for the development and sustained growth of acute myeloid leukemia
Published in Genes & development (15-01-2012)“…Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) frequently relapses after initial treatment. Drug resistance in AML has been attributed to high levels of the anti-apoptotic Bcl-2…”
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Osteosarcoma cells depend on MCL-1 for survival, and osteosarcoma metastases respond to MCL-1 antagonism plus regorafenib in vivo
Published in BMC cancer (04-11-2024)“…Abstract Osteosarcoma is the most common form of primary bone cancer, which primarily afflicts children and adolescents. Chemotherapy, consisting of…”
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Structural insights into the degradation of Mcl-1 induced by BH3 domains
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (10-04-2007)“…Apoptosis is held in check by prosurvival proteins of the Bcl-2 family. The distantly related BH3-only proteins bind to and antagonize them, thereby promoting…”
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ATF3 Repression of BCL-XL Determines Apoptotic Sensitivity to HDAC Inhibitors across Tumor Types
Published in Clinical cancer research (15-09-2017)“…Abstract Purpose: Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi) are epigenome-targeting small molecules approved for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and…”
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In situ visualization of endothelial cell-derived extracellular vesicle formation in steady state and malignant conditions
Published in Nature communications (22-10-2024)“…Endothelial cells are integral components of all vasculature within complex organisms. As they line the blood vessel wall, endothelial cells are constantly…”
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role of BH3-only protein Bim extends beyond inhibiting Bcl-2-like prosurvival proteins
Published in The Journal of cell biology (10-08-2009)“…Proteins of the Bcl-2 family are critical regulators of apoptosis, but how its BH3-only members activate the essential effectors Bax and Bak remains…”
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MCL-1 inhibition provides a new way to suppress breast cancer metastasis and increase sensitivity to dasatinib
Published in Breast cancer research : BCR (08-12-2016)“…Metastatic disease is largely resistant to therapy and accounts for almost all cancer deaths. Myeloid cell leukemia-1 (MCL-1) is an important regulator of cell…”
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Apoptosis is triggered when prosurvival Bcl-2 proteins cannot restrain Bax
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (25-11-2008)“…A central issue in the control of apoptosis is whether its essential mediators Bax and Bak must be restrained by Bcl-2-like prosurvival relatives to prevent…”
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Computationally designed high specificity inhibitors delineate the roles of BCL2 family proteins in cancer
Published in eLife (02-11-2016)“…Many cancers overexpress one or more of the six human pro-survival BCL2 family proteins to evade apoptosis. To determine which BCL2 protein or proteins block…”
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High-Resolution Structural Characterization of a Helical α/β-Peptide Foldamer Bound to the Anti-Apoptotic Protein Bcl-xL
Published in Angewandte Chemie (International ed.) (01-01-2009)“…Get into the groove: The first high-resolution structure of a foldamer bound to a protein target is described (see picture; foldamer in sticks). The foldamer…”
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Physiological restraint of Bak by Bcl-xL is essential for cell survival
Published in Genes & development (15-05-2016)“…Due to the myriad interactions between prosurvival and proapoptotic members of the Bcl-2 family of proteins, establishing the mechanisms that regulate the…”
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Combination of bazedoxifene with chemotherapy and SMAC-mimetics for the treatment of colorectal cancer
Published in Cell death & disease (10-04-2024)“…Excessive STAT3 signalling via gp130, the shared receptor subunit for IL-6 and IL-11, contributes to disease progression and poor survival outcomes in patients…”
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Prosurvival Bcl-2 family members reveal a distinct apoptotic identity between conventional and plasmacytoid dendritic cells
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (31-03-2015)“…Dendritic cells (DCs) are heterogeneous, comprising subsets with functional specializations that play distinct roles in immunity as well as immunopathology. We…”
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Conformational Changes in Bcl-2 Pro-survival Proteins Determine Their Capacity to Bind Ligands
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (30-10-2009)“…Antagonists of anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family members hold promise as cancer therapeutics. Apoptosis is triggered when a peptide containing a BH3 motif or a small…”
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Induction of endoplasmic reticulum stress is associated with the anti‐tumor activity of monepantel across cancer types
Published in Cancer medicine (Malden, MA) (01-06-2023)“…Background Monepantel is an anti‐helminthic drug that also has anti‐cancer properties. Despite several studies over the years, the molecular target of…”
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A novel BH3-mimetic, AZD0466, targeting BCL-XL and BCL-2 is effective in pre-clinical models of malignant pleural mesothelioma
Published in Cell death discovery (28-05-2021)“…Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an aggressive cancer with treatment limited to Cisplatin and Pemetrexed chemotherapy. Recently, we showed that drugs…”
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