Mammary Cell News Volume 3.02 | Jan 20 2011

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    Mammary Cell News 3.02 January 20, 2011.
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    TOP STORY

    Study Provides Molecular Rationale For Combining Targeted Agents to Treat Breast Cancer  ShareThis
    A new study provides a rationale for treating breast cancer by combining two kinds of targeted agents, one that inhibits an overactive, cancer-causing pathway in cancer cells and one that reverses changes that silence genes that normally prevent cancer. [Press release from The Ohio State University discussing online prepublication in Cancer Research]

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    SCIENCE NEWS

    U-M Researchers Find Indirect Path to Attack Breast Cancer Stem Cells
    Scientists have identified a potential new way of attacking breast cancer stem cells. Researchers found that breast cancer stem cells are regulated by mesenchymal stem cells. [Press release from the University of Michigan (U-M) discussing online prepublication in Cancer Research]

    Automated Assay Detects Lymph Node Metastases after Breast Cancer
    An automated molecular assay that can detect metastatic breast cancer in axillary sentinel lymph nodes during surgery performs comparably to conventional postoperative histologic examination, study findings indicate. [Press release from MedWire News discussing online prepublication in Cancer]

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    CURRENT PUBLICATIONS (Ranked by Impact Factor of the Journal)

    LABORATORY RESEARCH

    EZH2 Promotes Expansion of Breast Tumor Initiating Cells through Activation of RAF1-Beta-Catenin Signaling
    Researchers identify a mechanism in which EZH2 expression-mediated downregulation of DNA damage repair leads to accumulation of recurrent RAF1 gene amplification in breast tumor initiating cells (BTICs), which activates p-ERK-beta-catenin signaling to promote BTIC expansion. [Cancer Cell]

    Contractility of the Cell Rear Drives Invasion of Breast Tumor Cells in 3D Matrigel
    Investigators report that MDA-MB-231 human breast adenocarcinoma cells invade 3D Matrigel with a characteristic rounded morphology and with F-actin and myosin-IIa accumulating at the cell rear in a uropod-like structure. [Proc Natl Acad Sci USA]

    Inducible Formation of Breast Cancer Stem Cells and Their Dynamic Equilibrium with Non-Stem Cancer Cells via IL6 Secretion
    Tumor heterogeneity involves a dynamic equilibrium between cancer stem cells (CSCs) and nonstem cancer cells mediated by IL6 and activation of the inflammatory feedback loop required for oncogenesis. This dynamic equilibrium provides an additional rationale for combining conventional chemotherapy with metformin, which selectively inhibits CSCs. [Proc Natl Acad Sci USA]

    Breast Cancer Stem Cells Are Regulated by Mesenchymal Stem Cells through Cytokine Networks
    Scientists used in vitro and mouse xenograft models to examine the interaction between breast cancer stem cells and bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells. [Cancer Res]

    Epigenetic Silencing Mediated Through Activated PI3K/AKT Signaling in Breast Cancer
    Trimethylation of histone 3 lysine 27 is a critical epigenetic mark for the maintenance of gene silencing. Additional accumulation of DNA methylation in target loci is thought to cooperatively support this epigenetic silencing during tumorigenesis. However, molecular mechanisms underlying the complex interplay between the two marks remain to be explored. Investigators demonstrate that activation of PI3K/AKT signaling can be a trigger of this epigenetic processing at many downstream target genes. [Cancer Res]

    Kruppel-Like Factor 4 (KLF4) Is Required for Maintenance of Breast Cancer Stem Cells and for Cell Migration and Invasion
    Scientists show that KLF4 was highly expressed in cancer stem cell-enriched populations in mouse primary mammary tumor and breast cancer cell lines. [Oncogene]

    Targeting the Akt/Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Pathway in Brca1-Deficient Cancers
    To further investigate the role of breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (Brca1)/Akt in tumorigenesis, investigators analyzed Brca1/Akt expression in human breast cancer samples and found that reduced expression of Brca1 was highly correlated with increased phosphorylation of Akt. [Oncogene]

    Adipose Derived Stem Cells (ASCs) Isolated from Breast Cancer Tissue Express IL-4, IL-10 and TGF-Beta1 and Upregulate Expression of Regulatory Molecules on T Cells: Do They Protect Breast Cancer Cells from the Immune Response?
    Researchers isolated adipose derived stem cells (ASCs) from breast cancer and normal breast tissues to investigate the expressions of IL-4, IL-10 and transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1 in ASCs and to see if ASCs isolated from patients can modulate the regulatory molecules on peripheral blood lymphocytes. [Cell Immunol]

    CLINICAL RESEARCH

    A Novel Automated Assay for the Rapid Identification of Metastatic Breast Carcinoma in Sentinel Lymph Nodes
    The authors prospectively evaluated the performance of a proprietary molecular testing platform using one-step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA) for the detection of metastatic carcinoma in sentinel lymph nodes in a large multicenter trial and compared the OSNA results with the results from a detailed postoperative histopathologic evaluation (reference pathology) and from intraoperative imprint cytology. [Cancer]



    INDUSTRY NEWS

    Cancer Research UK and Cancer Research Technology Establish Team of Stem Cell Experts to Beat Cancer
    Cancer Research UK and its commercial arm Cancer Research Technology, have established a team of scientists with expertise in cancer stem cell research to identify new targets to detect, monitor and treat cancer. [Cancer Research UK Press Release]

    Genentech Submits Response to FDA’s Notice of Opportunity for a Hearing on Proposal to Withdraw Approval of Metastatic Breast Cancer Indication for Avastin
    Genentech, Inc. submitted its response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Notice of Opportunity for a Hearing on the Agency’s proposal to withdraw approval of the metastatic breast cancer indication for Avastin® (bevacizumab). [Genentech, Inc. Press Release]



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