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Sirt2 Maintains Genome Integrity And Suppresses Tumorigenesis Through Regulating Apc/C Activity, Hyun-Seok Kim, Athanassios Vassilopoulos, Rui-Hong Wang, Tyler Lahusen, Zhen Xiao, Xiaoling Xu, Cuiling Li, Timothy D. Veenstra, Bing Li, Hongtao Yu, Junfang Ji, Xin Wei Wang, Seong-Hoon Park, Yong I Cha, David Gius, Chu-Xia Deng
Sirt2 Maintains Genome Integrity And Suppresses Tumorigenesis Through Regulating Apc/C Activity, Hyun-Seok Kim, Athanassios Vassilopoulos, Rui-Hong Wang, Tyler Lahusen, Zhen Xiao, Xiaoling Xu, Cuiling Li, Timothy D. Veenstra, Bing Li, Hongtao Yu, Junfang Ji, Xin Wei Wang, Seong-Hoon Park, Yong I Cha, David Gius, Chu-Xia Deng
Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications
Members of sirtuin family regulate multiple critical biological processes, yet their role in carcinogenesis remains controversial. To investigate the physiological functions of SIRT2 in development and tumorigenesis, we disrupted Sirt2 in mice. We demonstrated that SIRT2 regulates the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome activity through deacetylation of its coactivators, APC(CDH1) and CDC20. SIRT2 deficiency caused increased levels of mitotic regulators, including Aurora-A and -B that direct centrosome amplification, aneuploidy, and mitotic cell death. Sirt2-deficient mice develop gender-specific tumorigenesis, with females primarily developing mammary tumors, and males developing more hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Human breast cancers and HCC samples exhibited reduced SIRT2 levels compared with …
Comparison Of Estrogens And Estrogen Metabolites In Human Breast Tissue And Urine, Emanuela Taioli, Annie Im, Xia Xu, Timothy D. Veenstra, Gretchen Ahrendt, Seymour Garte
Comparison Of Estrogens And Estrogen Metabolites In Human Breast Tissue And Urine, Emanuela Taioli, Annie Im, Xia Xu, Timothy D. Veenstra, Gretchen Ahrendt, Seymour Garte
Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications
BACKGROUND: An important aspect of the link between estrogen and breast cancer is whether urinary estrogen levels are representative of the intra-tissue levels of bioavailable estrogens.
METHODS: This study compares 15 estrogen and estrogen metabolite levels in breast tissue and urine of 9 women with primary breast cancer using a quantitative liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry method.
RESULTS: The average levels of estrogens (estrone, 17 beta-estradiol) were significantly higher in breast tissue than in urine. Both the 2 and the 16-hydroxylation pathways were less represented in breast tissue than urine; no components of the 4-hydroxypathway were detected in breast tissue, while 4-hydroxyestrone …