Pancreatic Cell News Volume 14.11 | Mar 21 2023

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    2023-03-21 | PACN 14.11


    Pancreatic Cell News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 14.11 – 21 March, 2023
    TOP STORY

    HMGA1 Induces FGF19 to Drive Pancreatic Carcinogenesis and Stroma Formation

    Scientists uncovered an epigenetic program whereby High mobility group A1 (HMGA1) upregulated FGF19 during tumor progression and stroma formation.
    [Journal of Clinical Investigation]

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    Light-Stimulated Insulin Secretion from Pancreatic Islet-Like Organoids Derived from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Investigators reported a novel optogenetic regulatory system for insulin secretion in human pluripotent stem cell-derived pancreatic islet-like organoids using monster-opto-Stromal interaction molecule 1.
    [Molecular Therapy]

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    Deficiency of WTAP in Islet Beta Cells Results in Beta Cell Failure and Diabetes in Mice

    The authors investigated the role of Wilms’ tumour 1-associating protein (WTAP) in the regulation of islet beta cell failure and diabetes and generated islet beta cell-specific Wtap-knockout and beta cell-specific Mettl3-overexpressing mice.
    [Diabetologia]

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    Zinc and Iron Dynamics in Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide-Induced Diabetes Mouse Model

    Scientists investigated the dynamics of elements in the pancreatic islets of a diabetic mouse model expressing human islet amyloid polypeptide.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Spontaneously Evolved Progenitor Niches Escape Yap Oncogene Addiction in Advanced Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinomas

    By employing an inducible genetic engineered mouse model, the authors illustrated that lineage plasticity enabled advanced PDAC tumors to develop spontaneous relapse following elimination of the central oncogenic driver, Yap.
    [Nature Communications]

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    MEN1 Degradation Induced by Neddylation and the CUL4B-DCAF7 Axis Promotes Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Progression

    In pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors cells resistant to everolimus, the downregulation of DCAF7 expression overcame resistance and synergized with everolimus to suppress mTOR activation and inhibit cancer cell growth.
    [Cancer Research]

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    Purinergic GPCR-Integrin Interactions Drive Pancreatic Cancer Cell Invasion

    Researchers identified P2RY2 as the purinergic gene with the strongest association with hypoxia and the strongest impact on overall survival.
    [eLife]

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    SETD8 Inhibits Ferroptosis in Pancreatic Cancer by Inhibiting the Expression of RRAD

    The authors revealed the relationship between SETD8 and ferroptosis in pancreatic cancer and its role in pancreatic cancer to provide a possible new direction for the comprehensive treatment of pancreatic cancer.
    [Cancer Cell International]

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    Glutamine Deprivation Induces Ferroptosis in Pancreatic Cancer Cells

    Scientists explored the association between ferroptosis and glutamine deprivation in pancreatic cancer. The growth of pancreatic cancer cells in culture media with or without glutamine was evaluated using Cell Counting Kit-8.
    [Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica]

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    REVIEWS

    Neoadjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer

    Investigators describe current treatment strategies for the various clinical stages of PDAC and discuss developments that are likely to determine the optimal sequence of multimodality therapies.
    [Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Phanes Therapeutics Announces First Patient Dosed in Phase I Study of PT886 for Advanced Gastric, Gastroesophageal Junction and Pancreatic Adenocarcinomas

    Phanes Therapeutics, Inc. announced that the first patient had been dosed in the phase I clinical study of PT886, a first-in-class native IgG-like bispecific antibody targeting claudin 18.2 and CD47 for the treatment of gastric, gastroesophageal junction, and PDACs.
    [Phanes Therapeutics, Inc.]

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    Columbia University – New York City, New York, United States

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    Medical College of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

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