ROCCHI , Stephane

Melanoma is one of the most lethal cancers when it reaches a metastatic stage. Despite the spectacular achievements of targeted therapies (BRAF inhibitors) or immuno-therapies (anti-CTLA4 or anti-PD1), most patients with melanoma will need additional treatments. Here we used a photoactive NADPH analogue called NS1 to induce cell death by...

A distinctive property of Hepatocyte Growth Factor (HGF) is its ability to induce differentiation of tubular structures from epithelial and endothelial cells (branching tubulogenesis). The HGF receptor directly activates PI3 kinase, Ras and STAT signalling pathways and phosphorylates the adaptator GRB2 Associated Binder-1 (Gab1). Gab1 is also...

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