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Statins in Breast Cancer Therapy: Mechanistic Insights and Emerging Evidence. [PDF]

Cancer Innov
Statins, particularly simvastatin, demonstrate potential as adjuvant agents in breast cancer treatment by disrupting tumour cell signalling and survival pathways. This review highlights emerging evidence supporting their repurposing for improved outcomes, especially in aggressive breast cancer subtypes.
Alim R, Akalanka HMK.
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PDE6D Mediates Trafficking of Prenylated Proteins NIM1K and UBL3 to Primary Cilia

Cells, 2023
Mutations in PDE6D impair the function of its cognate protein, phosphodiesterase 6D (PDE6D), in prenylated protein trafficking towards the ciliary membrane, causing the human ciliopathy Joubert Syndrome (JBTS22) and retinal degeneration in mice.
Siebren Faber, Stef J. F. Letteboer, Katrin Junger, Rossano Butcher, Trinadh V. Satish Tammana, Sylvia E. C. van Beersum, Marius Ueffing, Rob W. J. Collin, Qin Liu, Karsten Boldt, Ronald Roepman   +10 more
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Significance of KRAS/PAK1/Crk pathway in non-small cell lung cancer oncogenesis. [PDF]

, 2015
BackgroundKey effector(s) of mutated KRAS in lung cancer progression and metastasis are unknown. Here we investigated the role of PAK1/Crk axis in transduction of the oncogenic KRAS signal in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).MethodsWe used NSCLC ...
Aljilani, Amir, Lewis, Michael, Lu, Jie, Mortazavi, Fariborz, Pezeshkpour, Gholamhossein, Phan, Ryan, Tamanoi, Fuyuhiko, Trinidad, Kenny   +7 more
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Simvastatin-dependent apoptosis in Hodgkin’s lymphoma cells and growth impairment of human Hodgkin’s tumors in vivo

Haematologica, 2007
Statins are used to treat hypercholesterolemia and seem to have a preventive effect against cancer through pleiotropic effects including prenylation-inhibition. So far nothing is known about the activity of statins or more specific prenylation-inhibitors
Bastian von Tresckow, Elke Pogge von Strandmann, Stephanie Sasse, Samir Tawadros, Andreas Engert, Hinrich P. Hansen   +5 more
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SmgGDS: An Emerging Master Regulator of Prenylation and Trafficking by Small GTPases in the Ras and Rho Families

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021
Newly synthesized small GTPases in the Ras and Rho families are prenylated by cytosolic prenyltransferases and then escorted by chaperones to membranes, the nucleus, and other sites where the GTPases participate in a variety of signaling cascades ...
Anthony C. Brandt, Olivia J. Koehn, Carol L. Williams   +2 more
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Simvastatin inhibits TLR8 signaling in primary human monocytes and spontaneous TNF production from rheumatoid synovial membrane cultures [PDF]

, 2015
Simvastatin has been shown to have anti-inflammatory effects that are independent of its serum cholesterol lowering action, but the mechanisms by which these anti-inflammatory effects are mediated have not been elucidated.
A Gierut, A Hilgendorff, AA Ajibade, BI Gavrila, BP Leung, C Arnaud, C Guiducci, C Guijarro, E Munro, EH Choy, FL Zhang, FM Brennan, FM Brennan, FX Zhang, G Falgarone, H Kanda, H Kanda, H Lin, H Methe, H Okamoto, H Radner, H Wesche, H Xu, I Zelvyte, J Qin, Jason Ferdjani, K Chaabo, KA Fitzgerald, KA Fitzgerald, KH Costenbader, KI Paraskevas, L Liu, LA O’Neill, Lisa Mullen, LM Mullen, M Khoury, M Ortego, M Yamamoto, M Yoshida, MA Gonzalez-Gay, QQ Huang, S Alzabin, S Doornum Van, Sandra Sacre, SL Chinault, SM Sacre, T Mosmann, TT Tang, U Schonbeck   +48 more
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Rho-A prenylation and signaling link epithelial homeostasis to intestinal inflammation [PDF]

, 2016
Although defects in intestinal barrier function are discussed as a key pathogenic factor in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), the molecular pathways driving disease-specific alterations of intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) are largely ...
Alastair J.M. Watson, Arif B. Ekici, Becker, Christoph Becker, Claudia Günther, Cord Brakebusch, Distler, Gionata Fiorino, Heller, Hopkins, Imke Atreya, Kerstin Amann, Lin, Markus F. Neurath, Martin Bergö, Ohkusa, Pastorelli, Pechlivanis, Raja Atreya, Rocío López-Posadas, Silvio Danese, Stefan Tenzer, Stefan Wirtz, Stefania Vetrano, Turcotte, Ulrike Billmeier, Veronika Thonn, Zverina   +27 more
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Lipidation of small GTPase Cdc42 as regulator of its physiological and pathophysiological functions

Frontiers in Physiology, 2023
The protein cell division cycle 42 (Cdc42) is a small GTPase of the Rho family regulating a plethora of physiological functions in a tissue, cell and subcellular-specific manner via participating in multiple signaling pathways.
Alexander Wirth, Evgeni Ponimaskin
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Tocopherol and plastoquinone synthesis in spinach chloroplasts subfractions [PDF]

, 1980
Subfractions isolated from intact purified spinach chloroplasts are able to prenylate the aromatic moiety of -tocopherol and plastoquinone-9 precursors. The biosynthesis of -tocopherol and plastoquinone-9 is a compartmentalized process.
Bickel, Block, Costes, Douce, Douce, Douce, Gernot Schultz, Jensen, Joo, Jørgen Soll, Karunen, Larsson, Mayer, Monika Kemmerling, Morré, Soll, Soll, Soll, Thompson, Walter, Watts, Wellburn   +21 more
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The Biological Activity of AAV Vectors for Choroideremia Gene Therapy Can Be Measured by In Vitro Prenylation of RAB6A

Molecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical Development, 2018
Choroideremia (CHM) is a rare, X-linked recessive retinal dystrophy caused by mutations in the CHM gene. CHM is ubiquitously expressed in human cells and encodes Rab escort protein 1 (REP1).
Maria I. Patrício, Alun R. Barnard, Christopher I. Cox, Clare Blue, Robert E. MacLaren   +4 more
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