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Ccn Proteins In Metastatic Melanoma, James Hutchenreuther
Ccn Proteins In Metastatic Melanoma, James Hutchenreuther
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Melanoma cells recruit host tissue to become a part of the activated tumour stroma. This stromal microenvironment is similar to that seen in fibrotic tissue. CCN1 and CCN2 are tightly spatiotemporally regulated matricellular proteins involved in development and wound healing, and are abberantly expressed in fibrosis. Additionally they have been seen to be abnormally highly expressed in several cancers, including melanoma. Recent evidence has shown that deletion of CCN2 in the fibroblasts renders mice resistant to several models of fibrosis. Given this, I tested the hypothesis that deletion of CCN1 and CCN2 from fibroblasts could similarly impede the formation of …
Nuak1 Has Tumor Suppressive Activity In Epithelial Ovarian Cancer, Parima Saxena
Nuak1 Has Tumor Suppressive Activity In Epithelial Ovarian Cancer, Parima Saxena
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NUAK1, a downstream substrate of the stress metabolism regulator Liver kinase B1 (LKB1), has been implicated as an oncogene and tumor suppressor, with distinct roles in cell cycle, senescence and cell adhesion. Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) spheroids remain dormant during intraperitoneal metastasis with reduced proliferation and metabolism to survive metabolically harsh conditions, possibly implicating a role of NUAK1 in EOC spheroid biology. I hypothesize that NUAK1 is regulated by LKB1 to promote dormancy in EOC. I demonstrate that NUAK1 expression and phosphorylation is regulated by LKB1 in EOC cell lines. NUAK1 is largely under-expressed in many established and new ascites-derived …