TAMPA, Fla. – Immunotherapy is a fast growing area of cancer research. It involves developing therapies that use a patient’s own immune system to fight and kill cancer. Moffitt Cancer Center is working on a new vaccine that would help early-stage breast cancer patients who have HER2 positive disease. The HER2 protein is overexpressed in nearly 25 percent...
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Inhibiting the SUMO Pathway Represses the Cancer Stem Cell Population in Breast and Colorectal Carcinomas
Highlights Sumoylation regulates CD44 and MMP14 expression in basal breast and colon cancer SUMO inhibition clears cancer stem cells, repressing invasiveness and tumor growth Anacardic acid functions as a SUMO inhibitor to repress cancer stem cells TFAP2A mediates anti-tumor effects of SUMO inhibition in breast and colon cancers Summary Many solid cancers have an expanded...