RKIP-mediated chemo-immunosensitization of resistant cancer cells via disruption of the NF-κB/Snail/YY1/RKIP resistance-driver loop

Critical Reviews in Oncogenesis

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 431-445

  Bonavida, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Immunotherapy; NF B; Resistance; RKIP; Snail; Stem cells; YY1

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CD20 ANTIBODY; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR KINASE 2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; KELCH LIKE ECH ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; SALINOSPORAMIDE A; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR YY1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND; UVOMORULIN; PEBP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SNAIL FAMILY TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; YY1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMOSENSITIZATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CYTOTOXIC LYMPHOCYTE; DNA BINDING; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NEOPLASM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; TUMOR IMMUNITY; TUMOR INVASION; UBIQUITINATION; UPREGULATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETICS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; METABOLISM; NEOPLASMS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NEOPLASMS; NF-KAPPA B; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; YY1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84912025522     PISSN: 08939675     EISSN: 21626448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevOncog.2014011929     Document Type: Article

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