Brief Communications in 2018

Mitochondrial dysfunction is a key determinant of the rare disease lymphangioleiomyomatosis and provides a novel therapeutic target

• E. M. M. Abdelwahab
• S. Pal
• J. E. Pongracz

STAT3 inhibition reduces macrophage number and tumor growth in neurofibroma

• Jonathan S. Fletcher
• Mitchell G. Springer
• Nancy Ratner

Adipose stromal cell targeting suppresses prostate cancer epithelial-mesenchymal transition and chemoresistance

• Fei Su
• Songyeon Ahn
• Mikhail G. Kolonin

Overexpression of cellular telomerase RNA enhances virus-induced cancer formation

• Ahmed Kheimar
• Jakob Trimpert
• Benedikt B. Kaufer

Leukemia inhibitory factor functions in parallel with interleukin-6 to promote ovarian cancer growth

• Karen McLean
• Lijun Tan
• Ronald J. Buckanovich

Development of a yeast-based system to identify new hBRAFV600E functional interactors

• Simone Lubrano
• Laura Comelli
• Tiziana Cervelli

Overexpression of miR-489 derails mammary hierarchy structure and inhibits HER2/neu-induced tumorigenesis

• Y. Patel
• M. Soni
• H. Chen

Cross-species genomics identifies DLG2 as a tumor suppressor in osteosarcoma

• Yang W. Shao
• Geoffrey A. Wood
• Rama Khokha

Tumor penetrating peptides inhibiting MYC as a potent targeted therapeutic strategy for triple-negative breast cancers

• Edina Wang
• Anabel Sorolla
• Pilar Blancafort

The Myb-related protein MYPOP is a novel intrinsic host restriction factor of oncogenic human papillomaviruses

• Elena Wüstenhagen
• Fatima Boukhallouk
• Luise Florin

FGFR3-TACC3 is an oncogenic fusion protein in respiratory epithelium

• Sarah A. Best
• Cassandra R. Harapas
• Kate D. Sutherland

Massive expression of germ cell-specific genes is a hallmark of cancer and a potential target for novel treatment development

• Jan Willem Bruggeman
• Jan Koster
• Geert Hamer

β-catenin/TCF activity regulates IGF-1R tyrosine kinase inhibitor sensitivity in colon cancer

• Hani Lee
• Nayoung Kim
• Woo-Young Kim

Pentose conversions support the tumorigenesis of pancreatic cancer distant metastases

• Matthew E. Bechard
• Anna E. Word
• Oliver G. McDonald

Multicellular detachment generates metastatic spheroids during intra-abdominal dissemination in epithelial ovarian cancer

• Sara Al Habyan
• Christina Kalos
• Luke McCaffrey

Shared and independent functions of aPKCλ and Par3 in skin tumorigenesis

• Susanne Vorhagen
• Dominik Kleefisch
• Sandra Iden

Sox2 is required for tumor development and cancer cell proliferation in osteosarcoma

• Giulia Maurizi
• Narendra Verma
• Claudio Basilico

Pre-neoplastic pancreas cells enter a partially mesenchymal state following transient TGF-β exposure

• Jesse Handler
• Jane Cullis
• Dafna Bar-Sagi

Chronic expression of wild-type Ret receptor in the mammary gland induces luminal tumors that are sensitive to Ret inhibition

• Albana Gattelli
• Martín E. García Solá
• Nancy E. Hynes

WNT ligands control initiation and progression of human papillomavirus-driven squamous cell carcinoma

• Dario Zimmerli
• Virginia Cecconi
• Maries van den Broek