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Drug-resilient cancer cell phenotype is acquired via polyploidization associated with early stress response coupled to HIF-2α transcriptional regulation (2024)
Journal Article
Carroll, C., Manaprasertsak, A., Boffelli Castro, A., van den Bos, H., Spierings, D. C., Wardenaar, R., …Hammarlund, E. U. (2024). Drug-resilient cancer cell phenotype is acquired via polyploidization associated with early stress response coupled to HIF-2α transcriptional regulation. Cancer Research Communications, https://doi.org/10.1158/2767-9764.crc-23-0396

Therapeutic resistance and recurrence remain core challenges in cancer therapy. How therapy resistance arises is currently not fully understood with tumors surviving via multiple alternative routes. Here, we demonstrate that a subset of cancer cells... Read More about Drug-resilient cancer cell phenotype is acquired via polyploidization associated with early stress response coupled to HIF-2α transcriptional regulation.

Spatial functional mapping of hypoxia inducible factor heterodimerisation and immune checkpoint regulators in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (2024)
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Safrygina, E., Applebee, C., McIntyre, A., Padget, J., & Larijani, B. (2024). Spatial functional mapping of hypoxia inducible factor heterodimerisation and immune checkpoint regulators in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. BJC Reports, 2, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44276-023-00033-7

Background: Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is a highly malignant subtype of kidney cancer. Ninety percent of ccRCC have inactivating mutations of VHL that stabilise transcription factors, HIF1α and HIF2α, only stabilised in hypoxia. The vari... Read More about Spatial functional mapping of hypoxia inducible factor heterodimerisation and immune checkpoint regulators in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Classification of cancer cells at the sub-cellular level by phonon microscopy using deep learning (2023)
Journal Article
Pérez-Cota, F., Martínez-Arellano, G., La Cavera III, S., Hardiman, W., Thornton, L., Fuentes-Domínguez, R., …Clark, M. (2023). Classification of cancer cells at the sub-cellular level by phonon microscopy using deep learning. Scientific Reports, 13, Article 16228. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-42793-9

There is a consensus about the strong correlation between the elasticity of cells and tissue and their normal, dysplastic, and cancerous states. However, developments in cell mechanics have not seen significant progress in clinical applications. In t... Read More about Classification of cancer cells at the sub-cellular level by phonon microscopy using deep learning.

Targeting hypoxia regulated sodium driven bicarbonate transporters reduces triple negative breast cancer metastasis (2022)
Journal Article
Harris, A. L., Clarke, P. A., Carroll, C. P., Bolland, H., Vancauwenberghe, E., Collier, P., …McIntyre, A. (2022). Targeting hypoxia regulated sodium driven bicarbonate transporters reduces triple negative breast cancer metastasis. Neoplasia, 25, 41-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neo.2022.01.003

Regions of low oxygen (hypoxia) are found in >50% of breast tumours, most frequently in the more aggressive triple negative breast cancer subtype (TNBC). Metastasis is the cause of 90% of breast cancer patient deaths. Regions of tumour hypoxia tend t... Read More about Targeting hypoxia regulated sodium driven bicarbonate transporters reduces triple negative breast cancer metastasis.

Endothelial Cell RNA-Seq Data: Differential Expression and Functional Enrichment Analyses to Study Phenotypic Switching (2022)
Book Chapter
Pinel, G. D., Horder, J. L., King, J. R., McIntyre, A., Mongan, N. P., López, G. G., & Benest, A. V. (2022). Endothelial Cell RNA-Seq Data: Differential Expression and Functional Enrichment Analyses to Study Phenotypic Switching. In A. V. Benest (Ed.), Angiogenesis: Methods and Protocol (369-426). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2059-5_29

RNA-seq is a common approach used to explore gene expression data between experimental conditions or cell types and ultimately leads to information that can shed light on the biological processes involved and inform further hypotheses. While the prot... Read More about Endothelial Cell RNA-Seq Data: Differential Expression and Functional Enrichment Analyses to Study Phenotypic Switching.

Intratumour heterogeneity in microRNAs expression regulates glioblastoma metabolism (2021)
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Alfardus, H., de los Angeles Estevez Cebrero, M., Rowlinson, J., Lourdusamy, A., Abdelrazig, S., Ortori, C., …Smith, S. (2021). Intratumour heterogeneity in microRNAs expression regulates glioblastoma metabolism. Scientific Reports, 11(1), Article 15908. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95289-9

While specific microRNA (miRNA) signatures have been identified in glioblastoma (GBM), the intratumour heterogeneity in miRNA expression has not yet been characterised. In this study, we reveal significant alterations in miRNA expression across three... Read More about Intratumour heterogeneity in microRNAs expression regulates glioblastoma metabolism.

Regulation of cellular sterol homeostasis by the oxygen responsive noncoding RNA lincNORS (2020)
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Wu, X., Niculite, C. M., Bogdan Preda, M., Rossi, A., Tebaldi, T., Butoi, E., …Ivan, M. (2020). Regulation of cellular sterol homeostasis by the oxygen responsive noncoding RNA lincNORS. Nature Communications, 11, Article 4755. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18411-x

We hereby provide the initial portrait of lincNORS, a spliced lincRNA generated by the MIR193BHG locus, entirely distinct from the previously described miR-193b-365a tandem. While inducible by low O2 in a variety of cells and associated with hypoxia... Read More about Regulation of cellular sterol homeostasis by the oxygen responsive noncoding RNA lincNORS.

Hypoxia-induced switch in SNAT2/SLC38A2 regulation generates endocrine resistance in breast cancer (2019)
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Morotti, M., Bridges, E., Valli, A., Choudhry, H., Sheldon, H., Wigfield, S., …Harris, A. L. (2019). Hypoxia-induced switch in SNAT2/SLC38A2 regulation generates endocrine resistance in breast cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(25), 12452-12461. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818521116

Tumor hypoxia is associated with poor patient outcomes in estrogen receptor-α–positive (ERα+) breast cancer. Hypoxia is known to affect tumor growth by reprogramming metabolism and regulating amino acid (AA) uptake. Here, we show that the glutamine t... Read More about Hypoxia-induced switch in SNAT2/SLC38A2 regulation generates endocrine resistance in breast cancer.

Adaptation to HIF1a deletion in hypoxic cancer cells by upregulation of GLUT14 and creatine metabolism (2019)
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Valli, A., Morotti, M., Zois, C. E., Albers, P. K., Soga, T., Feldinger, K., …Harris, A. L. (2019). Adaptation to HIF1a deletion in hypoxic cancer cells by upregulation of GLUT14 and creatine metabolism. Molecular Cancer Research, 17(7), 1531-1544. https://doi.org/10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-18-0315

© 2019 American Association for Cancer Research. Hypoxia-inducible factor 1a is a key regulator of the hypoxia response in normal and cancer tissues. It is well recognized to regulate glycolysis and is a target for therapy. However, how tumor cells a... Read More about Adaptation to HIF1a deletion in hypoxic cancer cells by upregulation of GLUT14 and creatine metabolism.

Altered glutamine metabolism in breast cancer: subtype dependencies and alternative adaptations (2017)
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El Ansari, R., McIntyre, A., Craze, M. L., Ellis, I. O., Rakha, E. A., & Green, A. R. (in press). Altered glutamine metabolism in breast cancer: subtype dependencies and alternative adaptations. Histopathology, https://doi.org/10.1111/his.13334

Cancer cells must alter their metabolism in order to satisfy the demands of necessary energy and cellular building blocks. These metabolic alterations are mediated by many oncogenic changes that affect cellular signalling pathways, which result in su... Read More about Altered glutamine metabolism in breast cancer: subtype dependencies and alternative adaptations.

MicroRNA regulation of glycolytic metabolism in glioblastoma multiforme (2017)
Journal Article
Alfardus, H., McIntyre, A., & Smith, S. J. (2017). MicroRNA regulation of glycolytic metabolism in glioblastoma multiforme. BioMed Research International, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/9157370

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive and common malignant brain and central nervous system tumour. A well-known hallmark of GMB, and many other tumours, is aerobic glycolysis. microRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of short non-protein coding... Read More about MicroRNA regulation of glycolytic metabolism in glioblastoma multiforme.

The BET inhibitor JQ1 selectively impairs tumour response to hypoxia and downregulates CA9 and angiogenesis in triple negative breast cancer (2016)
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da Motta, L. L., Ledaki, I., Purshouse, K., Haider, S., de Bastiani, M., Baban, D., …McIntyre, A. (2017). The BET inhibitor JQ1 selectively impairs tumour response to hypoxia and downregulates CA9 and angiogenesis in triple negative breast cancer. Oncogene, 36, 122-132. https://doi.org/10.1038/onc.2016.184

The availability of bromodomain and extra-terminal inhibitors (BETi) has enabled translational epigenetic studies in cancer. BET proteins regulate transcription by selectively recognizing acetylated lysine residues on chromatin. BETi compete with thi... Read More about The BET inhibitor JQ1 selectively impairs tumour response to hypoxia and downregulates CA9 and angiogenesis in triple negative breast cancer.

Disrupting Hypoxia-Induced Bicarbonate Transport Acidifies Tumor Cells and Suppresses Tumor Growth (2016)
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McIntyre, A., Hulikova, A., Ledaki, I., Snell, C., Singleton, D., Steers, G., …Harris, A. L. (2016). Disrupting Hypoxia-Induced Bicarbonate Transport Acidifies Tumor Cells and Suppresses Tumor Growth. Cancer Research, 76(13), 3744-3755. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-15-1862

Tumor hypoxia is associated clinically with therapeutic resistance and poor patient outcomes. One feature of tumor hypoxia is activated expression of carbonic anhydrase IX (CA9), a regulator of pH and tumor growth. In this study, we investigated the... Read More about Disrupting Hypoxia-Induced Bicarbonate Transport Acidifies Tumor Cells and Suppresses Tumor Growth.

Carbonic anhydrase IX induction defines a heterogeneous cancer cell response to hypoxia and mediates stem cell-like properties and sensitivity to HDAC inhibition (2015)
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Ledaki, I., MCINTYRE, A., Wigfield, S., Buffa, F., McGowan, S., Baban, D., …Harris, A. L. (2015). Carbonic anhydrase IX induction defines a heterogeneous cancer cell response to hypoxia and mediates stem cell-like properties and sensitivity to HDAC inhibition. Oncotarget, 6(23), 19413-19427. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.4989

The pH low insertion peptide pHLIP Variant 3 as a novel marker of acidic malignant lesions (2015)
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Tapmeier, T. T., Moshnikova, A., Beech, J., Allen, D., Kinchesh, P., Smart, S., …Muschel, R. J. (2015). The pH low insertion peptide pHLIP Variant 3 as a novel marker of acidic malignant lesions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(31), 9710-9715. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509488112

Current strategies for early detection of breast and other cancers are limited in part because some lesions identified as potentially malignant do not develop into aggressive tumors. Acid pH has been suggested as a key characteristic of aggressive tu... Read More about The pH low insertion peptide pHLIP Variant 3 as a novel marker of acidic malignant lesions.