Promising biomarker and candidate tumor suppressor gene identified for colorectal cancer
Researchers have identified a new candidate tumor suppressor gene in colorectal cancer and examined its use as a potential biomarker in stool samples, according to a new study published online June 17 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute . In the study, Manon van Engeland, Ph.D., of...Gene helps protect tumor suppressor in breast cancer
HOUSTON - Scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have discovered a gene that protects PTEN, a major tumor-suppressor that is reduced but rarely mutated in about half of all breast cancers. The gene Rak helps protect and regulate PTEN, which also is important in sever...Tumor suppressor may attenuate fibrotic disease
New research reveals a critical cellular signaling pathway that is responsible for generating excess connective tissue in multiple organs, similar to what is seen in human patients with scleroderma. The study, published by Cell Press in the February issue of the journal Developmental Cell , also ...Oncogene inhibits tumor suppressor to promote cancer: Study links B-RAF and LKB1
Scientists have uncovered an interesting connection between two important protein kinase signaling pathways that are associated with cancer. The research, published by Cell Press in the January 30th issue of the journal Molecular Cell , may direct new therapeutic strategies for multiple types of ...Cell biologists identify new tumor suppressor for lung cancer
Cancer and cell biology experts at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have identified a new tumor suppressor that may help scientists develop more targeted drug therapies to combat lung cancer. The study, led by Jorge Moscat, PhD, appears in the January 2009 issue of Molecular and Cellular Biol...CSHL scientists trace causal link between a tumor suppressor gene and liver cancer
Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have taken the search for cancer-causing genes an important step forward. In a newly published paper, they confirm that a gene called DLC1 is a tumor suppressor. They have demonstrated in living mice that its deletion, inactivation or loss precipi...Gene Marker May Improve Odds of Stem Cell Therapies for Disease
...decrease, in several genes involved in stem cell self-renewal and DNA repair, including Rb1 and p107 gene expression. However, pRB2/p130, a tumor suppressor gene first identified by Antonio Giordano, Director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine at the College of Science and T...Data Suggest CEL-SCI's CEL-2000 Vaccine Prevents or Retards Permanent Damage of Rheumatoid Arthritis
...t of T-cell function with primarily effector T-cell functions (T Lymphocyte; helper/effector T lymphocyte, type 1 or 2 [Th1 or Th2], cytotoxic [Tc] or suppressor [Ts]). Therefore, it would appear that the L.E.A.P.S.(TM) construct represents a chimeric peptide with bi-functional behavior. About CEL-SCI: CEL-...Exelixis Reports Positive Clinical Pharmacodynamics Data for PI3K/mTOR Inhibitor XL765 at ASCO
...anslation machinery and hence, cell growth. PI3K is activated in human cancers by elevated receptor tyrosine kinase activity, by deletion of the tumor suppressor PTEN, or by mutation of its catalytic domain. mTOR is activated by growth factors via PI3K and AKT, but is also activated in a PI3K-independent fashio...Presentation of Data on Progen's Cancer Epigenetic Targets Platform
...ed to specifically demethylate histone proteins (demethylates Lysine 4 of histone H3) and plays an important role in the regulation of specific cancer suppressor genes. LSD-1 inhibitors prevent the action of LSD-1, causing increased levels of histone methylation, resulting in the reactivation of the cancer supp...Data Show SuperGen's MP-470 is Safe in Humans
...afe in humans (Abstract No. 4083). Entitled, "MP-470, a potent oral Rad51 suppressor is safe and tolerable in first-in-human study," the poster highlights data ...ponsible for repair of DNA double strand breaks. "This is the first Rad51 suppressor that has advanced into Phase 1 clinical trials," said Dr. Gregory Berk, Sup...Tumor suppressor gene in flies may provide insights for human brain tumors
SINGAPORE and DURHAM, N.C. In the fruit fly's developing brain, stem cells called neuroblasts normally divide to create one self-renewing neuroblast and one cell that has a different fate. But neuroblast growth can sometimes spin out of control and become a brain tumor. Researchers at Duke-NU...Skin cancer study uncovers new tumor suppressor gene
National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have identified a gene that suppresses tumor growth in melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. The finding is reported today in the journal Nature Genetics as part of a systematic genetic analysis of a group of enzymes implicated in skin cance...Design of a compound that stabilizes the main natural suppressor of tumors
This press release is available in Spanish . An interdisciplinary team of researchers, headed by Ernest Giralt at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and Javier de Mendoza at the "Institut Catal d'Investigaci Qumica" (ICIQ, Tarragona), have discovered a substance with ...Two suppressor molecules affect 70 genes in leukemia
COLUMBUS, Ohio By restoring two small molecules that are often lost in chronic leukemia, researchers were able to block tumor growth in an animal model. The research, using human chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells, also showed that loss of the two molecules affects 70 genes, most of whic...La Jolla Institute discovers novel tumor suppressor
SAN DIEGO (August 3, 2009) La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology researchers studying an enzyme believed to play a role in allergy onset, instead have discovered its previously unknown role as a tumor suppressor that may be important in myeloproliferative diseases and some types of lymphoma...Novel regulatory mechanism identified for key tumor suppressor p53
Collaborating scientists from The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia and The Vienna Biocenter in Austria have identified a novel mechanism involved in normal repression of the p53 protein, perhaps the single most important molecule for the control of cancer in humans. The new molecular pathway des...Fat droplet nanoparticle delivers tumor suppressor gene to tumor and metastatic cells
Dr. Esther Chang describes the most recent developments in human trials of the first systemic, non-viral, tumor-targeted, nanoparticle method designed to restore normal gene function to tumor cells while completely bypassing normal tissue April 21 at an American Association of Anatomists (AAA) sci...First Patient Dosed in Phase I Clinical Trial of Tigris Pharmaceuticals' GGTI-2418
... cycle arrest by a mechanism involving induction of the CDK inhibitors p21waf and p27kip, CDK2 and CDK4 inhibition and hypophoshorylation of the tumor suppressor Rb. GGTase I inhibitors also induce apoptosis by a mechanism involving downregulation of the expression of survivin and suppression of the activation ...CEL-SCI's L.E.A.P.S. Technology Shows Potential to Treat Swine Influenza in Preclinical Studies
...t of T-cell function with primarily effector T-cell functions (T Lymphocyte; helper/effector T lymphocyte, type 1 or 2 [Th1 or Th2], cytotoxic [Tc] or suppressor [Ts]). The L.E.A.P.S. vaccine constructs are chimeric peptides which combine antigen specificity with immune response modulation. CEL-SCI Corpora...Tumor Suppressor Sampler Kit from BD Biosciences Pharmingen
Description: Tumor Suppressor Sampler Kit 10 mu g each...Rat Anti-Kinase Suppressor Of Ras Monoclonal Antibody, Unconjugated, Clone MINT/1/4 from GeneTex
Description: Rat Antibody to Kinase Suppressor Of Ras Recognises the kinase suppressor of Ras (KSR). Immunogen: Recombinant human KSR protein Specificity: human kinase supressor of Ras...Anti-UbcH7 Antibody, Unconjugated from CHEMICON
Description:... involved in both the degradation of non-""N-end rule"" protein substrates and of certain N-a -acetylated proteins as well as the degradation of tumor suppressor protein p53....Adept HPLC System 8: Ion Chromatography from Cecil Instruments Ltd.
Description:.... The sensitive conductivity detector CE 4710, with twelve ranges from 0.01S to 5000S, houses the measuring cell in a thermostatted environment. The suppressor module CE 4715, is available. Data processing is provided by the CE 4900 interface and software. Solvent delivery is by the high pressure CE 4100 d...