• 17β-estradiol promotes extracellular vesicle release and selective miRNA loading in ERα-positive breast cancer 

      Drula, Rares; Pardini, Barbara; Fu, Xiao; De Los Santos, Mireia Cruz; Jurj, Ancuta; Pang, Lan; El-Daly, Sherien M.; Fabris, Linda; Knutsen, Erik; Dragomir, Mihnea P.; Bayraktar, Recep; Li, Yongfeng; Chen, Meng; Del Vecchio, Filippo; Berland, Léa; Dae, Jessica; Fan, Daniel; Shimizu, Masayoshi; Tran, Anh M.; Barzi, Mercedes; Pioppini, Carlotta; Gutierrez, Angelica M.; Ivan, Cristina; Meas, Salyna; Hall, Carolyn S.; Alahari, Suresh K.; Berindan-Neagoe, Ioana; Fabbri, Muller; Lucci, Anthony; Arun, Banu; Anfossi, Simone; Calin, George A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-30)
      The causes and consequences of abnormal biogenesis of extracellular vesicles (EVs) are not yet well understood in malignancies, including in breast cancers (BCs). Given the hormonal signaling dependence of estrogen receptor–positive (ER+) BC, we hypothesized that 17β-estradiol (estrogen) might influence EV production and microRNA (miRNA) loading. We report that physiological doses of 17β-estradiol ...
    • A Holistic Perspective: Exosomes Shuttle between Nerves and Immune Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment 

      Dragomir, Mihnea Paul; Moisoiu, Vlad; Manaila, Roxana; Pardini, Barbara; Knutsen, Erik; Anfossi, Simone; Amit, Moran; Calin, George A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-31)
      One of the limitations of cancer research has been the restricted focus on tumor cells and the omission of other non-malignant cells that are constitutive elements of this systemic disease. Current research is focused on the bidirectional communication between tumor cells and other components of the tumor microenvironment (TME), such as immune and endothelial cells, and nerves. A major success of ...
    • The long noncoding RNA CCAT2 induces chromosomal instability through BOP1-AURKB signaling 

      Chen, Baoqing; Dragomir, Mihnea Paul; Fabris, Linda; Bayraktar, Recep; Knutsen, Erik; Liu, Xu; Tang, Changyan; Li, Yongfeng; Shimura, Tadanobu; Ivkovic, Tina Catela; Cruz De los Santos, Mireia; Anfossi, Simone; Shimizu, Masayoshi; Shah, Maitri Y.; Ling, Hui; Shen, Peng; Multani, Asha S.; Pardini, Barbara; Burks, Jared K.; Katayama, Hiroyuki; Reineke, Lucas C.; Huo, Longfei; Syed, Muddassir; Song, Shumei; Ferracin, Manuela; Oki, Eiji; Fromm, Bastian; Ivan, Cristina; Bhuvaneshwar, Krithika; Gusev, Yuriy; Mimori, Koshi; Menter, David; Sen, Subrata; Matsuyama, Takatoshi; Uetake, Hiroyuki; Vasilescu, Catalin; Kopetz, Scott; Parker-Thornburg, Jan; Taguchi, Ayumu; Hanash, Samir M.; Girnita, Leonard; Slaby, Ondrej; Goel, Ajay; Varani, Gabriele; Gagea, Mihai; Li, Chunlai; Ajani, Jaffer A.; Calin, George A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-15)
      Background & Aims - Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a carcinogenesis event that promotes metastasis and resistance to therapy by unclear mechanisms. Expression of the colon cancer–associated transcript 2 gene (CCAT2), which encodes a long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), associates with CIN, but little is known about how CCAT2 lncRNA regulates this cancer enabling characteristic.<p> <p>Methods - We ...
    • Stochastic Epigenetic Mutations Are Associated with Risk of Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, and Mature B-cell Neoplasms 

      Gagliardi, Amedeo; Dugué, Pierre-Antoine; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Southey, Melissa C.; Buchanan, Daniel D.; Schmidt, Daniel F; Makalic, Enes; Hodge, Allison M; English, Dallas R.; Wong Doo, Nicole; Hopper, John L.; Severi, Gianluca; Baglietto, Laura; Naccarati, Alessio; Krogh, Vittorio; Palli, Domenico; Panico, Salvatore; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Tumino, Rosario; Lund, Eiliv; Giles, Graham; Pardini, Barbara; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Milne, Roger L.; Paolo, Vineis; Polidoro, Silvia; Fiorito, Giovanni (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-11)
      <p>Background: Age-related epigenetic dysregulations are associated with several diseases, including cancer. The number of stochastic epigenetic mutations (SEM) has been suggested as a biomarker of life-course accumulation of exposure-related DNA damage; however, the predictive role of SEMs in cancer has seldom been investigated. <p>Methods: A SEM, at a given CpG site, was defined as an extreme ...