Listen to a blog summary of an editorial in Volume 14, entitled, “Proof-of-principle: targeted childhood leukemia prevention.” ___________________________________________ Childhood leukemia is a devastating disease that affects thousands of children every year. Despite significant advancements in the field of pediatric oncology, childhood leukemia remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children, with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) being the most common form. Some cases ...
Mar 31, 2023•7 min
A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on March 24, 2023, entitled, “Downregulation of angulin-1/LSR induces malignancy via upregulation of EGF-dependent claudin-2 and TGF-β-dependent cell metabolism in human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells.” Abnormal expression of bicellular tight junction claudins, including claudin-2 are observed during carcinogenesis in human lung adenocarcinoma. However, little is known about the role of tricellular tight junction molecule angulin-1/lip...
Mar 30, 2023•4 min
A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on March 24, 2023, entitled, “Polyisoprenylated cysteinyl amide inhibitors deplete singly polyisoprenylated monomeric G-proteins in lung and breast cancer cell lines.” Finding effective therapies against cancers driven by mutant and/or overexpressed hyperactive G-proteins remains an area of active research. Polyisoprenylated cysteinyl amide inhibitors (PCAIs) are agents that mimic the essential posttranslational modifications of G-prot...
Mar 28, 2023•5 min
A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on March 21, 2023, entitled, “Attenuation of cancer proliferation by suppression of glypican-1 and its pleiotropic effects in neoplastic behavior.” Glypicans (GPC1-6) are associated with tumorigenic processes and their involvement in neoplastic behavior has been discussed in different cancer types. In this recent cancer-wide GPC expression study, researchers Fang Cheng, Victor Chérouvrier Hansson, Grigorios Georgolopoulos, and Katrin M...
Mar 22, 2023•5 min
A new editorial paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on February 11, 2023, entitled, “Unlocking the potential of molecular-driven stratification for osteosarcoma treatment and prognosis.” Over the last 40 years, the complex genetic landscape, the heterogeneity of the microenvironment and the cell plasticity of Osteosarcoma (OSA) tumors have delayed the therapeutic and prognostic stratification of patients and the introduction of new efficient treatments. As a direct consequence, the vas...
Mar 20, 2023•3 min
Blog summary of an editorial perspective published in Oncotarget on entitled, “Leakage? or Secretion? unconventional protein secretion in cancer.” ________________________________________ Conventional protein secretion is fairly well understood in this day and age. Proteins that are secreted through the classical, secretory vesicle-related pathway contain a signal peptide that guides them to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), where they are further processed and transported to the Golgi apparatus. ...
Mar 17, 2023•6 min
A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on March 11, 2023, entitled, “Genomic landscape of metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients with methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) loss.” Homozygous deletion of methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) upregulates de novo synthesis of purine (DNSP) and increases the proliferation of neoplastic cells. This increases the sensitivity of breast cancer cells to DNSP inhibitors such as methotrexate, L-alanosine and pemetrexed. In their...
Mar 14, 2023•4 min
A new review paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on March 11, 2023, entitled, “Selective protection of normal cells from chemotherapy, while killing drug-resistant cancer cells.” Cancer therapy is limited by toxicity in normal cells and drug-resistance in cancer cells. In his latest review, Mikhail V. Blagosklonny, M.D., Ph.D., from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center discusses the theory that cancer resistance to certain therapies can be exploited for protection of normal cells—s...
Mar 14, 2023•3 min
A new editorial paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on February 25, 2023, entitled, “Mitochondria engage the integrated stress response to promote tumor growth.” In this new editorial, researchers Dillon P. Boulton and M. Cecilia Caino from the University of Colorado School of Medicine discussed prostate cancer (PCa)—the most diagnosed and second deadliest cancer among men in the United States, with an estimated 268,490 new cases and 34,500 deaths in 2022 (ACS Cancer Facts and Figures ...
Mar 08, 2023•3 min
A new review paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on February 25, 2023, entitled, “What is hemoglobin, albumin, lymphocyte, platelet (HALP) score? A comprehensive literature review of HALP’s prognostic ability in different cancer types.” Since its inception, the Hemoglobin, Albumin, Lymphocyte, Platelet (HALP) Score has gained attention as a new prognostic biomarker to predict several clinical outcomes in a multitude of cancers. “HALP is a novel immune-nutritional marker that integrates...
Mar 08, 2023•3 min
A new editorial paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on February 11, 2023, entitled, “Unveiling the non-canonical functions of EZH2 in prostate cancer.” Prostate cancer (PCa) is ranked as the second leading cause of cancer-related death among American men excluding skin cancer. In this new editorial, researchers Yang Yi, Yanqiang Li, Kaifu Chen, and Qi Cao from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine discuss a well-known oncogenic driver in PCa: enhancer of zeste homolog 2...
Mar 03, 2023•3 min
Blog summary of an editorial published in Volume 14 of Oncotarget, entitled, “The role of Kras and canonical Wnt pathways for tumorigenesis of extrahepatic biliary system.” ____________________________________________________ The extrahepatic biliary system is a network of tubes and ducts that carry bile from the liver to the small intestine, where it helps digest fats. Biliary tract cancers, including gallbladder cancer and cholangiocarcinoma, are rare but aggressive cancers that arise from thi...
Mar 02, 2023•7 min
A new research perspective was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on February 7, 2023, entitled, “WNT-pathway medulloblastoma: what constitutes low-risk and how low can one go?” Novel biological insights have established that medulloblastoma is a heterogenous disease comprising four broad molecular subgroups - WNT, SHH, Group 3, and Group 4 respectively, resulting in the incorporation of molecular/genetic information in 5th edition of WHO classification and contemporary risk-stratification. Con...
Feb 27, 2023•4 min
A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on February 11, 2023, entitled, “Oncogenic driver FGFR3-TACC3 requires five coiled-coil heptads for activation and disulfide bond formation for stability.” FGFR3-TACC3 represents an oncogenic fusion protein frequently identified in glioblastoma, lung cancer, bladder cancer, oral cancer, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, gallbladder cancer, and cervical cancer. Various exon breakpoints of FGFR3-TACC3 have been identified in cancers...
Feb 22, 2023•4 min
Crossref is a non-profit organization that logs and updates citations for scientific publications. Each month, Crossref identifies a list of the most popular Oncotarget papers based on the number of times a DOI is successfully resolved. Below are Crossref’s Top 10 Oncotarget DOIs in 2022. 10: Cell fusion as a link between the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, COVID-19 complications, and vaccine side effects DOI: https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28088 Author: Yuri Lazebnik 9: A Jurkat 76 based triple ...
Feb 21, 2023•9 min
PRESS RELEASE - A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on February 7, 2023, entitled, “The ‘extreme phenotype approach’ applied to male breast cancer allows the identification of rare variants of ATR as potential breast cancer susceptibility alleles.” In oncogenetics, some patients could be considered as “extreme phenotypes”, such as those with very early onset presentation or multiple primary malignancies, unusually high numbers of cancers of the same spectrum or rare canc...
Feb 21, 2023•4 min
Blog summary of an Editorial was published in Oncotarget, entitled, “Permeability and driving force: why is it difficult to control glycolytic flux by blocking lactate transporters?“ _________________________________ The process of glycolysis, or the conversion of glucose to energy in cells, is a critical component of many biological processes. This process is highly regulated, and glycolytic flux has been implicated in a variety of disease states, including cancer and diabetes. Despite signific...
Feb 16, 2023•6 min
A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on January 31, 2023, entitled, “Novel inflammation-combined prognostic index to predict survival outcomes in patients with gastric cancer.” In vivo inflammatory responses are involved in cancer growth, invasion and metastasis, and the involvement of systemic inflammatory responses and the surrounding microenvironment is intricately intertwined. In this recent study, researchers Noriyuki Hirahara, Takeshi Matsubara, Shunsuke Kaji, Hikot...
Feb 14, 2023•4 min
A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on February 2, 2023, entitled, “Everolimus downregulates STAT3/HIF-1α/VEGF pathway to inhibit angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis in TP53 mutant head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).” TP53 mutant head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) patients exhibit poor clinical outcomes with 50–60% recurrence rates in advanced stage patients. In a recent phase II clinical trial, adjuvant therapy with everolimus (mTOR inhibitor) signi...
Feb 09, 2023•4 min
A new research perspective was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on February 4, 2023, entitled, “The immunoregulatory protein CD200 as a potentially lucrative yet elusive target for cancer therapy.” CD200 is an immunoregulatory cell surface ligand with proven pro-tumorigenic credentials via its ability to suppress CD200 receptor (CD200R)-expressing anti-tumor immune function. This definitive role for the CD200-CD200R axis in regulating an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment has garnered i...
Feb 06, 2023•3 min
Listen to a blog summary on a trending editorial published in Volume 14 of Oncotarget: “To be or not to be: the role of CD56 in multiple myeloma.” ___________________________________________________________ Multiple myeloma (MM) is a type of blood cancer that affects plasma cells in the bone marrow. These plasma cells, which are responsible for producing antibodies, become abnormal and begin to grow uncontrollably. This results in a buildup of abnormal cells in the bone marrow, leading to decrea...
Feb 03, 2023•7 min
A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14, entitled, “Spleen tyrosine kinase/FMS-like tyrosine kinase-3 inhibition in relapsed/refractory B-cell lymphoma, including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: updated data with mivavotinib (TAK-659/CB-659).” Researchers Leo I. Gordon, Reem Karmali, Jason B. Kaplan, Rakesh Popat, Howard A. Burris III, Silvia Ferrari, Sumit Madan, Manish R. Patel, Giuseppe Gritti, Dima El-Sharkawi, F. Ian Chau, John Radford, Jaime Pérez de Oteyza, Pier Luigi ...
Jan 31, 2023•5 min
A new research perspective was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on January 12, 2023, entitled, “Intraventricular immunovirotherapy; a translational step forward.” In this new perspective, researchers Joshua D. Bernstock, Sarah Blitz, Kyung-Don Kang, and Gregory K. Friedman from Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Alabama at Birmingham discuss oncolytic virotherapy with intratumoral engineered type-1 herpes simplex virus (HSV). Intraventricular thera...
Jan 26, 2023•3 min
A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on January 12, 2023, entitled, “The chromatographic constitution of andiroba oil and its healing effects, compared to the LLLT outcomes, in oral mucositis induced in golden Syrian hamsters: a new treatment option.” The oral mucositis is a mucosal alteration that usually arises from oncological treatments, such as chemotherapy, and it is characterized as an inflammatory process. In this new study, researchers Jessica T. Gomes, Ana Márci...
Jan 24, 2023•4 min
Listen to a blog summary of a trending research paper published in Volume 14 of Oncotarget: "Candidate drugs associated with sensitivity of cancer cell lines with DLST amplification or high mRNA levels." ____________________________________________________ Dihydrolipoamide S-succinyltransferase (DLST) is a crucial gene/protein/enzyme involved in the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) pathway and cellular energy production. Recent studies have demonstrated that, in neuroblastoma and triple-negati...
Jan 19, 2023•6 min
A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on January 12, 2023, entitled, “Targeting CD74 in B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma with the antibody-drug conjugate STRO-001.” Overexpression of CD74, a type II transmembrane glycoprotein involved in MHC class II antigen presentation, has been reported in many B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) and in multiple myeloma (MM). STRO-001 is a site-specific, predominantly single-species antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) that targets CD74 and has dem...
Jan 17, 2023•4 min
A new research paper was published in Oncotarget’s Volume 13 on December 29, 2022, entitled, “Calcium signaling induced by 15-deoxy-prostamide-J2 promotes cell death by activating PERK, IP3R, and the mitochondrial permeability transition pore.” Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer in the US. Although immunotherapeutic checkpoint inhibitors and small-molecule kinase inhibitors have dramatically increased the survival of patients with melanoma, new or optimized therapeutic approaches are ...
Jan 12, 2023•3 min
A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 13 on December 29, 2022, entitled, “Impact of Covid-19 on the management of patients with metastatic melanoma.” The Covid-19 pandemic created new uncertainties in the management of metastatic melanoma patients. In particular, the impact of immunotherapy, targeted therapy or chemotherapy on the risk of Sars-CoV-2 infection and severity was debated. In this study, researchers Michèle Welti, Phil F. Cheng, Joanna Mangana, Mitchell P. Levesqu...
Jan 11, 2023•3 min
A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 13 on December 20, 2022, entitled, “Resistance of MMTV-NeuT/ATTAC mice to anti-PD-1 immune checkpoint therapy is associated with macrophage infiltration and Wnt pathway expression.” One of the central challenges for cancer therapy is the identification of factors in the tumor microenvironment that increase tumor progression and immune tolerance. In breast cancer, fibrosis is a histopathologic criterion for invasive cancer and poor surviva...
Jan 05, 2023•4 min
Listen to a blog summary of a trending research paper published by Oncotarget: "Anti-tumor effect of antibody drug conjugate ASP1235 targeting Fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 with venetoclax plus azacitidine in an acute myeloid leukemia xenograft mouse model." _________________________________________________________ The average age of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is 67 years old. Older adults generally have a lower tolerance for treatments that exhibit high off-target toxicity. Additio...
Jan 05, 2023•8 min
