Alteration of protein trafficking and localization is associated with several diseases, including cystic fibrosis, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, leukemia and diabetes. Specifically, aberrant nuclear localization of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), a receptor tyrosine kinase, is a poor prognostic indicator in several epithelial carcinomas. It is now appreciated that in addition t...

A 250K single-nucleotide polymorphism array was used to study subchromosomal alterations in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). The most frequent amplification was found at 7p11.2 in 9 of 29 (31%) oral cancer patients. Minimal genomic mapping verified a unique amplicon spanning from 54.6 to 55.3 Mb on chromosome 7, which contains SEC61G and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). Results from...

EGFR or ERBB2 contributes to prostate cancer (PCa) progression by activating the androgen receptor (AR) in hormone-poor conditions. Here, we investigated the mechanisms by which androgens regulate EGFR and ERBB2 expression in PCa cells. In steroid-depleted medium (SDM), EGFR protein was less abundant in androgen-sensitive LNCaP than in androgen ablation-resistant 22Rv1 cells, whereas transcript...

Patients with lung tumors harboring activating mutations in the EGF receptor (EGFR) show good initial treatment responses to the EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) erlotinib or gefitinib. However, acquired resistance invariably develops. Applying a focused shRNA screening approach to identify genes whose knockdown can prevent and/or overcome acquired resistance to erlotinib in several EGFR-m...

Emerging evidence indicates a novel mode of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling, notably, one involves EGFR nuclear translocalization and subsequent gene activation. To date, however, the significance of the nuclear EGFR pathway in glioblastoma (GBM) is unknown. Here, we report that EGFR and its constitutively activated variant EGFRvIII undergo nuclear translocalization in GBM cel...

Local consolidative therapy (LCT)has been confirmed to improve the overall survival of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) receiving targeted and continuation target is currently recommended. it unknown whether could benefit from holiday if no visible lesions negative minimal residual disease (MRD) after LCT. Detection ctDNA in periphery blood was performed identify MRD EGFR mutant...

Abstract Background Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations will inevitably develop drug resistance after being treated the third-generation EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), osimertinib. Recently, information transmitted by exosomal miRNAs has attracted much attention. However, mechanism of exosome-derived in osimertinib remains un...

Abstract BACKGROUND Epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) provide a better prognosis in EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Nevertheless, the outcome of leptomeningeal metastasis (LM) remains poor. In addition, due to limited access intracranial tumour tissue, gene alterations associated with from adenocarcinoma (LM-LUAD) are unclear. METHODS Forty-...

PURPOSE We previously showed that 90% (47 of 52; 95% CI, 0.79 to 0.96) of lung adenocarcinomas from East Asian never-smokers harbored well-known oncogenic mutations in just four genes: EGFR, HER2, ALK, and KRAS. Here, we sought to extend these findings to more samples and identify driver alterations in tumors negative for these mutations. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We have collected and analyzed 202...

The HER2 (ErbB2/neu) protein is a member of the HER (ErbB) receptor family (EGFR, HER2, HER3 and HER4) that expresses tyrosine kinase activity in the intracellular domain. EGFR and HER2 overexpression is observed in numerous types of cancer, nevertheless, the susceptibility of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to therapy with EGFR and HER2 tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) depend...