CANCER CELL TETHERING AND ROLLING ON THE VASCULAR WALL IS FACILITATED BY VARIOUS SELECTIN: glycoprotein interactions which lead to eventual extravasation and metastases. The aberrantly underglycosylated mucin MUC1 has been shown to both abundantly express selectin binding moieties (sialyl Lewis x and a) and to consistently expose its core epitope. Flow cytometry was used to determine MUC1 expre...

Bis(4-fluorobenzyl)trisulfide (BFBTS) is a synthetic molecule derived from a bioactive natural product, dibenzyltrisulfide, found in a subtropical shrub, Petiveria allieacea. BFBTS has potent anticancer activities to a broad spectrum of tumor cell lines with IC50 values from high nanomolar to low micromolar and showed equal anticancer potency between tumor cell lines overexpressing multidrug-re...

The mucin MUC5B has a critical protective function in the normal lung, salivary glands, esophagus, and gallbladder, and has been reported to be aberrantly expressed in breast cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women worldwide. To understand better the implication of MUC5B in cancer pathogenesis, the luminal human breast cancer cell line MCF7 was transfected with a v...

The MST/Salvador-Warts-Hippo and mTOR/Akt/PI3K growth signaling pathways have been established as important modulators of cell growth, proliferation and cell survival in controlling organ size in Drosophila and mammals. Here, we sought to determine the role of the MST family of kinases, some of which are components of the Hippo pathway, and their closely related Sterile 20-like kinases (STK) as...

Purpose: This study compared the in vitro activity of small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI’s) erlotinib, dasatinib and sorafenib in human cancer cell lines of different tumor origins HCT 116 (colon carcinoma), MCF7 (breast carcinoma) and H460 (non-small cell lung carcinoma). Methods: Cytotoxicity assay was performed to determine the IC50 concentrations of TKI’s-erlotinib, dasatinib, s...

The present study was undertaken to determine the underlying mechanism of silibinin-induced cell death in human breast cancer cell lines MCF7 and MDA-MB-231. Silibinin-induced cell death was attenuated by antioxidants, N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and 6-hydroxy-2,5,7,8-tetramethylchromane-2-carboxylic acid, suggesting that the effect of silibinin was dependent on generation of reactive oxygen species...

A series of gold(I) and gold(III) complexes with N-heterocyclic carbene ligands functionalized a pendant thioether group (NHC-SR) was synthesized straightforward procedures characterized in solution NMR spectroscopy ESI-MS spectrometry, as well the solid state by means single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Selected experimental aspects were rationalized through relativistic DFT calculation...

The function of choline kinase (CK) and ethanolamine kinase (EK) is to catalyse the phosphorylation of choline and ethanolamine, respectively, in order to yield phosphocholine (PCho) and phosphoethanolamine (PEtn). A high expression level of PCho, due to elevated CK activity, has previously been associated with malignant transformation. In the present study, a quantitative polymerase chain reac...

BACKGROUND Curcumin (CUR) has deserved extensive research due to its anti-inflammatory properties, of interest in human diseases including cancer. However, pleiotropic even paradoxical responses of tumor cells have been reported, and the mechanisms of action of CUR remain uncompletely elucidated. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS (1)H-NMR spectroscopy-based metabolomics was applied to get novel ...

The role of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in the pathogenesis of breast cancer has been of long-standing interest to the field. Breast epithelial cells can be infected by EBV through direct contact with EBV-bearing lymphoblastoid cells, and EBV infection has recently been shown to confer breast cancer cells an increased resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs. In this study, we established EBV-infected...