Aquaporins (AQPs) are membrane proteins distributed over different organs and tissues that facilitate the interchange of water or solutes across membranes. One of these AQPs, named AQP7, has been shown to regulate signaling responses to cellular stress in breast cancer, and is hence considered a therapeutic target in cancer treatment.
Researchers at Kanazawa University, Japan, have reported a mixed-glial culture on/in soft substrate (MGS) platform to investigate cancer-glia interactions in vitro. Using this model, they showed that astrocytes favored brain metastasis by promoting metabotropic glutamate mGlu1 receptor (mGluR1) expression in cancer cells and stabilizing EGFR. Eishu Hirata, an associate professor at the Cancer Research Institute, Division of Tumor Cell Biology and Bioimaging at Kanazawa University, and his team
published their work on Feb. 2, 2024, in Developmental Cell.
Dong-A ST Co. Ltd. has reported new eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α kinase 4 (GCN2) inhibitors as potentially useful for the treatment of cancer, infections, neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases.
Research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. has led to the identification of new interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 4 (IRAK-4) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune and inflammatory disorders.
Increasing knowledge on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) proliferation processes suggests that targeting not only leukemic cells but also the tumor microenvironment (TME) and their interactions across drug combination strategies may lead to advances in this complex setting.
Researchers from Sun Yat-Sen University and MD Anderson Cancer Center have compared the proteins secreted by hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells in responders and nonresponders to the anti-PD-1 antibody nivolumab.
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) presents high recurrence and low survival rates due to drug resistance and different gene mutations that contribute to the difficulty of being cured. Cyclin-dependent kinase 8 (CDK8) is a key oncogenic driver in AML and thus considered a therapeutic target worth exploring.
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