Gene silencing by RNA interference (RNAi) is ushering biological research into a new age, providing an extremely powerful tool for the analysis of loss-of-function phenotypes in vertebrates where alternative approaches are very often arduous or even ineffective. In this review, we will highlight the different RNAi approaches that have been...
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2004 (v1)Journal article
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August 2003 (v1)Journal article
The mitogen activated protein (MAP) kinase module: (Raf -->MEK-->ERKs) is central to the control of cell growth, cell differentiation and cell survival. The fidelity of signalling and the spatio-temporal activation are key determinants in generating precise biological responses. The fidelity is ensured by scaffold proteins - protein kinase...
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December 2004 (v1)Journal article
Metastasis is the main cause of human cancer deaths, and cell motility is one key component of the process of metastasis. The ERK mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway is probably one of the most commonly activated in malignant human cancers. We describe the molecular mechanisms by which ERK MAPK signaling regulates cell...
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February 15, 2005 (v1)Journal article
The vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) is essential during embryonic development as inactivation of only one allele of its gene results in embryonic lethality. Up-regulation of VEGF under physiological situations allows for adaptation to hypoxic stress, to transient inflammatory processes, and to wounding. Its expression also...
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August 1, 2006 (v1)Journal article
Oxygen deprivation leading to hypoxia is a common feature of solid tumours. Under these conditions a signalling pathway involving a key oxygen-response regulator termed the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) is switched on. HIF is a transcription factor that, in hypoxia, drives the induction or repression of a myriad of genes controlling multiple...
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October 2006 (v1)Journal article
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have long been considered only as cyto- and genotoxic. However, there is now compelling evidence that ROS also act as second messengers in response to various stimuli, such as growth factors, hormones and cytokines. The hypoxia-inducible transcription factor (HIF) is a master regulator of oxygen-sensitive gene...
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December 18, 2009 (v1)Journal article
Hypoxia ( approximately 3-0.1% oxygen) is capable of rapidly inducing, via the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF-1), a cell survival response engaging autophagy. This process is mediated by the atypical BH3-only proteins the Bcl-2/E1B 19kDa-interacting protein 3 (BNIP3/BNIP3L (NIX)) that are induced by HIF-1. These mitochondrial associated BNIP...
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August 2009 (v1)Journal article
Normal and tumor cells subjected to a hypoxic microenvironment show evidence of autophagy. We hypothesize that cells will sense hypoxia as a warning signal to upcoming drastic microenvironmental conditions and that autophagy, acting as a survival mechanism, will provide time for cells to adapt. This work demonstrates for the first time that the...
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February 2005 (v1)Journal article
The ubiquitin-proteasomal pathway of degradation of proteins is activated or repressed in response to a number of environmental stresses and thereby plays an essential role in cell function and survival. Hypoxic stress, resulting from a decrease in the concentration of oxygen in tissues, is encountered in both physiological and pathological...
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July 31, 2007 (v1)Journal article
Oxygen is an essential element in the survival of complex organisms, however the level of oxygen, low or high, can be a source of stress depending on the biological context. Low levels of oxygen in tissues (hypoxia) can be the consequence of a number of pathophysiological conditions including ischemic disorders and cancer while relative, higher...
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March 1, 2009 (v1)Journal article
Regulating ERK activity is essential for normal cell proliferation to occur. In mammals and most vertebrates ERK activity is provided by ERK1 and ERK2 that are highly similar, ubiquitously expressed and share activators and substrates. By combining single and double silencings of ERK1 and ERK2 we recently demonstrated that the apparent dominant...
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January 2006 (v1)Journal article
Metazoans rapidly respond to changes in oxygen availability by regulating gene expression. The transcription factor hypoxia-inducible-factor (HIF), which controls the expression of several genes, 'senses' the oxygen concentration indirectly through the hydroxylation of two proline residues that earmarks the HIF-alpha subunits for proteasomal...
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January 2008 (v1)Journal article
The proteins ERK1 and ERK2 are highly similar, are ubiquitously expressed, and share activators and substrates; however, erk2 gene invalidation is lethal in mice, while erk1 inactivation is not. We ablated ERK1 and/or ERK2 by RNA interference and explored their relative roles in cell proliferation and immediate-early gene (IEG) expression....
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March 1, 2003 (v1)Journal article
Neuropilin-1 (NRP1) is a receptor for the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) family of angiogenesis factors and for the semaphorin family of secreted neuronal guidance polypeptides. Very little is known, however, about how NRP1 gene expression is regulated. In this study, it was demonstrated that the tumor promoter, TPA...
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February 1, 2007 (v1)Journal article
The alpha/beta-heterodimeric transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) functions when the oxygen level in tissues is low, i.e. when the tissue microenvironment becomes hypoxic, and is non-functional when the level of oxygen is high. Certain pathophysiological conditions such as ischemic disorders and cancer encounter low levels of...
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2007 (v1)Journal article
At a molecular level, hypoxia induces the stabilization and activation of the alpha-subunit of an alpha/beta heterodimeric transcription factor, appropriately termed HIF (hypoxia-inducible factor). Hypoxia is encountered, in particular, in tumour tissues, as a result of an insufficient and defective vasculature present in a highly proliferative...
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2005 (v1)Journal article
The hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) is a transcription factor that plays a key role in the response of cells to oxygen levels. HIF is a heterodimer of alpha- and beta-subunits where the alpha-subunit is translated constitutively but has a very short half-life under normal oxygen concentrations. Negative regulation of the half-life and activity...
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December 17, 2019 (v1)Journal article
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September 20, 2010 (v1)Journal article
A distinguishing phenotype of solid tumors is the presence of an alkaline cellular feature despite the surrounding acidic microenvironment. This phenotypic characteristic of tumors, originally described by Otto Warburg, arises due to alterations in metabolism of solid tumors. Hypoxic regions of solid tumors develop due to poor vascularization...
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February 2011 (v1)Journal article
A distinguishing phenotype of solid tumors is the presence of an alkaline cellular feature despite the surrounding acidic microenvironment. This phenotypic characteristic of tumors, originally described by Otto Warburg, arises due to alterations in metabolism of solid tumors. Hypoxic regions of solid tumors develop due to poor vascularization...
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May 25, 2006 (v1)Journal article
Tumour cells emerge as a result of genetic alteration of signal circuitries promoting cell growth and survival, whereas their expansion relies on nutrient supply. Oxygen limitation is central in controlling neovascularization, glucose metabolism, survival and tumour spread. This pleiotropic action is orchestrated by hypoxia-inducible factor...
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September 20, 2010 (v1)Journal article
A distinguishing phenotype of solid tumors is the presence of an alkaline cellular feature despite the surrounding acidic microenvironment. This phenotypic characteristic of tumors, originally described by Otto Warburg, arises due to alterations in metabolism of solid tumors. Hypoxic regions of solid tumors develop due to poor vascularization...
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