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Radiation therapy combined with novel STING-targeting oligonucleotides results in regression of established tumors

Cytotoxic therapies prime adaptive immune responses to cancer by stimulating the release of tumor-associated antigens. However, the tumor microenvironment into which these antigens are released is typically immunosuppressed, blunting the ability to ini...

Amphiregulin is a critical downstream effector of estrogen signaling in ERAlpha-positive breast cancer

Estrogen stimulation promotes epithelial cell proliferation in estrogen receptor (ERAlpha)-positive breast cancer. Many ERAlpha target genes have been enumerated, but the identities of the key effectors mediating the estrogen signal remain obscure. Dur...

Connexin 43 inhibition sensitizes chemoresistant glioblastoma cells to temozolomide

Resistance of glioblastoma (GBM) to the front-line chemotherapeutic agent temozolomide (TMZ) continues to challenge GBM treatment efforts. The repair of TMZ-induced DNA damage by O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) confers one mechanism of T...

Neuropilin-2 regulates endosome maturation and EGFR trafficking to support cancer cell pathobiology

Neuropilin-2 (NRP2) is a non-tyrosine kinase receptor frequently overexpressed in various malignancies where it has been implicated in promoting many protumorigenic behaviors, such as imparting therapeutic resistance to metastatic cancer cells. Here, w...

Combined MYC activation and Pten loss are sufficient to create genomic instability and lethal metastatic prostate cancer

Genetic instability, a hallmark feature of human cancers including prostatic adenocarcinomas, is considered a driver of metastasis. Somatic copy number alterations are found in most aggressive primary human prostate cancers, and the overall number of s...