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Small molecule RITA binds to p53, blocks p53-HDM-2 interaction and activates p53 function in tumors
Natalia Issaeva, Przemyslaw Bozko, Martin Enge, Marina Protopopova, Lisette G G C Verhoef, Maria Masucci, Aladdin Pramanik and Galina Selivanova
Nature Medicine 10, 1321–1328
(December 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1146
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Cancer drug discovery: the wisdom of imprecision
Andrei V Gudkov
Nature Medicine 10, 1298–1299
(December 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1204-1298
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perspectives
Timeline: Gefitinib — a novel targeted approach to treating cancer
Roy S. Herbst, Masahiro Fukuoka and José Baselga
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 956–965
(December 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1506
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Specific peptide interference reveals BCL6 transcriptional and oncogenic mechanisms in B-cell lymphoma cells
Jose M Polo, Tania Dell'Oso, Stella Maris Ranuncolo, Leandro Cerchietti, David Beck, Gustavo F Da Silva, Gilbert G Prive, Jonathan D Licht and Ari Melnick
Nature Medicine 10, 1329–1335
(December 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1134
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review article
Regulation of the cytoskeleton: an oncogenic function for cdk inhibitors?
Arnaud Besson, Richard K. Assoian and James M. Roberts
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 948–955
(December 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1501
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letters to nature
Fbxw7/Cdc4 is a p53-dependent, haploinsufficient tumour suppressor gene
Jian-Hua Mao, Jesus Perez-losada, Di Wu, Reyno DelRosario, Ryosuke Tsunematsu, Keiichi I. Nakayama, Ken Brown, Sheila Bryson and Allan Balmain
Nature 432, 775–779
(09 December 2004); doi:10.1038/nature03155
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Mechanisms and functional significance of tumour-induced dendritic-cell defects
Dmitry Gabrilovich
Nature Reviews Immunology 4, 941–952
(December 2004); doi:10.1038/nri1498
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Aurora-kinase inhibitors as anticancer agents
Nicholas Keen and Stephen Taylor
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 927–936
(December 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1502
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Targeting the mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade to treat cancer
Judith S. Sebolt-Leopold and Roman Herrera
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 937–947
(December 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1503
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Development of TGF-β signalling inhibitors for cancer therapy
Jonathan M. Yingling, Kerry L. Blanchard and J. Scott Sawyer
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 3, 1011–1022
(December 2004); doi:10.1038/nrd1580
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Libraries enriched for alternatively spliced exons reveal splicing patterns in melanocytes and melanomas
Akira Watahiki, Kazunori Waki, Norihito Hayatsu, Toshiyuki Shiraki, Shinji Kondo, Mari Nakamura, Daisuke Sasaki, Takahiro Arakawa, Jun Kawai, Matthias Harbers, Yoshihide Hayashizaki1 and Piero Carninci
Nature Methods 1, 233–239
(December 2004); doi:10.1038/nmeth719
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letters to nature
The BCL6 proto-oncogene suppresses p53 expression in germinal-centre B cells
Ryan T. Phan and Riccardo Dalla-Favera
Nature 432, 635–639
(02 December 2004); doi:10.1038/nature03147
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letters to nature
Regulation of cellular response to oncogenic and oxidative stress by Seladin-1
Chaowei Wu, Irene Miloslavskaya, Silvia Demontis, Roberta Maestro and Konstantin Galaktionov
Nature 432, 640–645
(02 December 2004); doi:10.1038/nature03173
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The role of the unfolded protein response in tumour development: friend or foe?
Yanjun Ma and Linda M. Hendershot
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 966–977
(December 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1505
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Netrin-1 and its receptors in tumorigenesis
Hirofumi Arakawa
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 978–987
(December 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1504
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Why do cancers have high aerobic glycolysis?
Robert A. Gatenby and Robert J. Gillies
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 891–899
(November 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1478
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PML bodies control the nuclear dynamics and function of the CHFR mitotic checkpoint protein
Matthew J Daniels, Alexander Marson and Ashok R Venkitaraman
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 11, 1114–1121
(November 2004); doi:10.1038/nsmb837
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Friends or foes — bipolar effects of the tumour stroma in cancer
Margareta M. Mueller and Norbert E. Fusenig
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 839–849
(November 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1477
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The RAF proteins take centre stage
Claudia Wellbrock, Maria Karasarides and Richard Marais
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 5, 875–885
(November 2004); doi:10.1038/nrm1498
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The RAB25 small GTPase determines aggressiveness of ovarian and breast cancers
Kwai Wa Cheng, John P Lahad, Wen-lin Kuo, Anna Lapuk, Kyosuke Yamada, Nelly Auersperg, Jinsong Liu, Karen Smith-McCune, Karen H Lu, David Fishman, Joe W Gray and Gordon B Mills
Nature Medicine 10, 1251–1256
(November 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1125
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technical report
Dissecting tumor maintenance requirements using bioluminescence imaging of cell proliferation in a mouse glioma model
Lene Uhrbom, Edward Nerio and Eric C Holland
Nature Medicine 10, 1257–1260
(November 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1120
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The emerging roles of human tissue kallikreins in cancer
Carla A. Borgoño and Eleftherios P. Diamandis
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 876–890
(November 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1474
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brief communication
Short interfering RNA (siRNA) targeting the Lyn kinase induces apoptosis in primary, and drug-resistant, BCR-ABL1(+) leukemia cells
Andrzej Ptasznik, Yuji Nakata, Anna Kalota, Stephen G Emerson and Alan M. Gewirtz
Nature Medicine 10, 1187–1189
(November 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1127
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Antitumour effects of antiretroviral therapy
Paolo Monini, Cecilia Sgadari, Elena Toschi, Giovanni Barillari and Barbara Ensoli
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 861–875
(November 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1479
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brief communication
Constitutional aneuploidy and cancer predisposition caused by biallelic mutations in BUB1B
Sandra Hanks, Kim Coleman, Sarah Reid, Alberto Plaja, Helen Firth, David FitzPatrick, Alexa Kidd, Károly Méhes, Richard Nash, Nathanial Robin, Nora Shannon, John Tolmie, John Swansbury, Alexandre Irrthum, Jenny Douglas and Nazneen Rahman
Nature Genetics 36, 1159–1161
(November 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1449
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From spindle checkpoint to cancer
Christoph Lengauer and Zhenghe Wang
Nature Genetics 36, 1144–1145
(November 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1104-1144
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letters to nature
MYC inactivation uncovers pluripotent differentiation and tumour dormancy in hepatocellular cancer
Catherine M. Shachaf, Andrew M. Kopelman, Constadina Arvanitis, Åsa Karlsson, Shelly Beer, Stefanie Mandl, Michael H. Bachmann, Alexander D. Borowsky, Boris Ruebner, Robert D. Cardiff, Qiwei Yang, J. Michael Bishop, Christopher H. Contag and Dean W. Felsher
Nature 431, 1112–1117
(28 October 2004); doi:10.1038/nature03043
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review article
High interstitial fluid pressure — an obstacle in cancer therapy
Carl-Henrik Heldin, Kristofer Rubin, Kristian Pietras and Arne Östman
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 806–813
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1456
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Cancer: Negative feedback for B cells
Louis M. Staudt
The discovery of a protein that regulates the production of antibody-generating B cells has implications for our understanding of how cancers of the immune system develop — and how they might be treated.
Nature 431, 919–920
(21 October 2004); doi:10.1038/431919a
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Dual regulation of Snail by GSK-3β-mediated phosphorylation in control of epithelial-mesenchymal transition
Binhua P. Zhou, Jiong Deng, Weiya Xia, Jihong Xu, Yan M. Li, Mehmet Gunduz and Mien-Chie Hung
Nature Cell Biology 6, 931–940
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1173
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GSK-3β sets Snail's pace
Karni Schlessinger and Alan Hall
Nature Cell Biology 6, 913–915
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1004-913
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Epstein-Barr virus: 40 years on
Lawrence S. Young and Alan B. Rickinson
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 757–768
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1452
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Identification of BRCA1-IRIS, a BRCA1 locus product
Wael M. ElShamy and David M. Livingston
Nature Cell Biology 6, 954–967
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1171
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Refocusing on BRCA1
Alan Ashworth
Nature Cell Biology 6, 916–917
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1004-916
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Polyamines and cancer: old molecules, new understanding
Eugene W. Gerner and Frank L. Meyskens Jr
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 781–792
(January 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1454
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Fusion of NUP214 to ABL1 on amplified episomes in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
C. Graux, J. Cools, C. Melotte, H. Quentmeier, A. Ferrando, R. Levine, J.R. Vermeesch, M. Stul, B. Dutta, N. Boeckx, A. Bosly, P. Heimann, A. Uyttebroeck, N. Mentens, R. Somers, R.A.F. MacLeod, H.G. Drexler, A.T. Look, D.G. Gilliland, L. Michaux, P. Vandenberghe, I. Wlodarska, Peter Marynen and Anne Hagemeijer
Nature Genetics 36, 1084–1089
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1425
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review article
Genetic predisposition to cancer — insights from population genetics
Steven A. Frank
Nature Reviews Genetics 5, 764–772
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/nrg1450
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letters to nature
Hedgehog signalling in prostate regeneration, neoplasia and metastasis
Sunil S. Karhadkar, G. Steven Bova , Nadia Abdallah, Surajit Dhara, Dale Gardner, Anirban Maitra, John T. Isaacs, David M. Berman and Philip A. Beachy
Nature 431, 707–712
(07 October 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02962
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technical report
Volumetric computed tomography (VCT): a new technology for noninvasive, high-resolution monitoring of tumor angiogenesis
Fabian Kiessling, Susanne Greschus, Matthias P Lichy, Michael Bock, Christian Fink, Silvia Vosseler, Jens Moll, Margareta M Mueller, Norbert E. Fusenig, Horst Traupe and Wolfhard Semmler
Nature Medicine 10, 1133–1138
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1101
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Genetic predisposition to colorectal cancer
Albert de la Chapelle
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 769–780
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1453
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Post-translational modification of p53 in tumorigenesis
Ann M. Bode and Zigang Dong
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 793–805
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1455
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A module map showing conditional activity of expression modules in cancer
Eran Segal, Nir Friedman, Daphne Koller and Aviv Regev
Nature Genetics 36, 1090–1098
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1434
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brief communication
Lung cancer: Intragenic ERBB2 kinase mutations in tumours
Philip Stephens, Chris Hunter, Graham Bignell, Sarah Edkins, Helen Davies, Jon Teague, Claire Stevens, Sarah O'Meara, Raffaella Smith, Adrian Parker, Andy Barthorpe, Matthew Blow, Lisa Brackenbury, Adam Butler, Oliver Clarke, Jennifer Cole, Ed Dicks, Angus Dike, Anja Drozd, Ken Edwards, Simon Forbes, Rebecca Foster, Kristian Gray, Chris Greenman, Kelly Halliday, Katy Hills, Vivienne Kosmidou, Richard Lugg, Andy Menzies, Janet Perry, Robert Petty, Keiran Raine, Lewis Ratford, Rebecca Shepherd, Alexandra Small, Yvonne Stephens, Calli Tofts, Jennifer Varian, Sofie West, Sara Widaa, Andrew Yates, Francis Brasseur, Colin S. Cooper, Adrienne M. Flanagan, Margaret Knowles, Suet Y. Leung, David N. Louis, Leendert H. J. Looijenga, Bruce Malkowicz, Marco A. Pierotti, Bin Teh, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Barbara L. Weber, Siu T. Yuen, Grace Harris, Peter Goldstraw, Andrew G. Nicholson, P. Andrew Futreal, Richard Wooster and Michael R. Stratton
Nature 431, 525–526
(30 September 2004); doi:10.1038/431525b
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Integrin signalling during tumour progression
Wenjun Guo and Filippo G. Giancotti
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 5, 816–826
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/nrm1490
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Opinion: Hallmarks of 'BRCAness' in sporadic cancers
Nicholas Turner, Andrew Tutt and Alan Ashworth
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 814–819
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1457
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BMP signaling inhibits intestinal stem cell self-renewal through suppression of Wnt-β-catenin signaling
Xi C He, Jiwang Zhang, Wei-Gang Tong, Ossama Tawfik, Jason Ross, David H Scoville, Qiang Tian, Xin Zeng, Xi He, Leanne M Wiedemann, Yuji Mishina and Linheng Li
Nature Genetics 36, 1117–1121
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1430
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Linking pathways in colorectal cancer
Gijs R van den Brink
Nature Genetics 36, 1038–1039
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1004-1038
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review article
Genetic predisposition to cancer — insights from population genetics
Steven A. Frank
Nature Reviews Genetics 5, 764–772
(October 2004); doi:10.1038/nrg1450
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letters to nature
NF-κB functions as a tumour promoter in inflammation-associated cancer
Eli Pikarsky, Rinnat M. Porat, Ilan Stein , Rinat Abramovitch, Sharon Amit, Shafika Kasem, Elena Gutkovich-Pyest, Simcha Urieli-Shoval, Eithan Galun and Yinon Ben-Neriah
Nature 431, 461–466
(23 September 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02924
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Cancer: An inflammatory link
Fran Balkwill and Lisa M. Coussens
Nature 431, 405–406
(23 September 2004); doi:10.1038/431405a
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Specific recruitment of regulatory T cells in ovarian carcinoma fosters immune privilege and predicts reduced survival
Tyler J Curiel, George Coukos, Linhua Zou, Xavier Alvarez, Pui Cheng, Peter Mottram, Melina Evdemon-Hogan, Jose R Conejo-Garcia, Lin Zhang, Matthew Burow, Yun Zhu, Shuang Wei, Ilona Kryczek, Ben Daniel, Alan Gordon, Leann Myers, Andrew Lackner, Mary L Disis, Keith L Knutson, Lieping Chen and Weiping Zou
Nature Medicine 10, 942–949
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1093
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Fatal attraction: tumors beckon regulatory T cells
Ethan M Shevach
Nature Medicine 10, 900–901
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/nm0904-900
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Tumor-infiltrating dendritic cell precursors recruited by a β-defensin contribute to vasculogenesis under the influence of Vegf-A
Jose R Conejo-Garcia, Fabian Benencia, Maria-Cecilia Courreges, Eugene Kang, Alisha Mohamed-Hadley, Ronald J Buckanovich, David O Holtz, Ann Jenkins, Hana Na, Lin Zhang, Daniel S Wagner, Dionyssios Katsaros, Richard Caroll and George Coukos
Nature Medicine 10, 950–958
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1097
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Oncogenic mechanisms of the Helicobacter pylori CagA protein
Masanori Hatakeyama
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 688–694
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1433
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Gallbladder cancer: lessons from a rare tumour
Ignacio I. Wistuba and Adi F. Gazdar
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 695–706
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1429
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perspectives
Opinion: Transcription — guarding the genome by sensing DNA damage
Mats Ljungman and David P. Lane
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 727–737
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1435
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news and views
From mRNA to tumor suppressor
Dan Mercola and John Welsh
Nature Genetics 36, 937–938
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/ng0904-937
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technical report
Tracking metastatic tumor cell extravasation with quantum dot nanocrystals and fluorescence emission-scanning microscopy
Evelyn B Voura, Jyoti K Jaiswal, Hedi Mattoussi and Sanford M Simon
Nature Medicine 10, 993–998
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1096
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Gene-promoter hypermethylation as a biomarker in lung cancer
Steven A. Belinsky
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 707–717
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1432
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letters to nature
Cytoplasmic PML function in TGF-β signalling
Hui-Kuan Lin, Stephan Bergmann and Pier Paolo Pandolfi
Nature 431, 205–211
(09 September 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02783
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news and views
Cell biology: An unexpected social servant
Christine Le Roy and Jeffrey L. Wrana
Nature 431, 142
(09 September 2004); doi:10.1038/431142a
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Spindle checkpoint protein links Rb pathway to aneuploidy
Bernd Pulverer
Nature Cell Biology 6, 806
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb0904-806
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brief communication
The transcription factor SNAIL represses vitamin D receptor expression and responsiveness in human colon cancer
Héctor G Pálmer, María Jesús Larriba, José Miguel García, Paloma Ordóñez-Morán, Cristina Peña, Sandra Peiró, Isabel Puig, Rufo Rodríguez, Ricardo de la Fuente, Antonio Bernad, Marina Pollán, Félix Bonilla, Carlos Gamallo, Antonio García de Herreros and Alberto Muñoz
Nature Medicine 10, 917–919
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1095
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review article
BRCA1 and BRCA2: 1994 and beyond
Steven A. Narod and William D. Foulkes
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 665–676
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1431
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WNT and β-catenin signalling: diseases and therapies
Randall T. Moon, Aimee D. Kohn, Giancarlo V. De Ferrari and Ajamete Kaykas
Nature Reviews Genetics 5, 691–701
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/nrg1427
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research article
A simple method to cure established tumors by inflammatory killing of normal cells
Gregory A Daniels, Luis Sanchez-Perez, Rosa Maria Diaz, Timothy Kottke, Jill Thompson, Maoyi Lai, Michael Gough, Mahzuz Karim, Andrew Bushell, Heung Chong, Alan Melcher, Kevin Harrington and Richard G Vile
Nature Biotechnology 22, 1125–1132
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/nbt1007
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news and views
Immunotherapy dispenses with tumor antigens
Soldano Ferrone
Nature Biotechnology 22, 1096–1098
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/nbt0904-1096
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letters to nature
Netrin–1 controls colorectal tumorigenesis by regulating apoptosis
Laetitia Mazelin, Agnès Bernet, Christelle Bonod–Bidaud, Laurent Pays, Ségolène Arnaud, Christian Gespach, Dale E Bredesen, Jean–Yves Scoazec and Patrick Mehlen
Nature 431, 80–84
(02 September 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02788
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Cancer: Cell survival guide
Eric R. Fearon and Kathleen R. Cho
Nature 431, 35–36
(02 September 2004); doi:10.1038/431035a
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perspectives
Opinion: Switching on kinases: oncogenic activation of BRAF and the PDGFR family
Nick J. Dibb, Stephen M. Dilworth and Clifford D. Mol
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 718–727
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1434
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letter
Nonsense–mediated decay microarray analysis identifies mutations of EPHB2 in human prostate cancer
Pia Huusko, Damaris Ponciano–Jackson, Maija Wolf, Jeff A Kiefer, David O Azorsa, Sukru Tuzmen, Don Weaver, Christiane Robbins, Tracy Moses, Minna Allinen, Sampsa Hautaniemi, Yidong Chen, Abdel Elkahloun, Mark Basik, G Steven Bova, Lukas Bubendorf, Alessandro Lugli, Guido Sauter, Johanna Schleutker, Hilmi Ozcelik, Sabine Elowe, Tony Pawson, Jeffrey M Trent, John D Carpten, Olli–P Kallioniemi and Spyro Mousses
Nature Genetics 36, 979–983
(September 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1408
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letters to nature
Suppression of anoikis and induction of metastasis by the neurotrophic receptor TrkB
Sirith Douma, Theo van Laar, John Zevenhoven, Ralph Meuwissen, Evert van Garderen and Daniel S. Peeper
Nature 430, 1034–1039
(26 August 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02765
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Anoikis: Cancer and the homeless cell
Lance A. Liotta and Elise Kohn
Nature 430, 973–974
(26 August 2004); doi:10.1038/430973a
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letter
MLK3 is required for mitogen activation of B-Raf, ERK and cell proliferation
Deborah N. Chadee and John M. Kyriakis
Nature Cell Biology 6, 770–776
(August 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1152
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review article
Biologically active sphingolipids in cancer pathogenesis and treatment
Besim Ogretmen and Yusuf A. Hannun
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 604–616
(August 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1411
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research article
In vivo cancer targeting and imaging with semiconductor quantum dots
Xiaohu Gao, Yuanyuan Cui, Richard M Levenson, Leland W K Chung and Shuming Nie
Nature Biotechnology 22, 969–976
(August 2004); doi:10.1038/nbt994
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Zooming in and out with quantum dots
Rakesh K Jain and Mark Stroh
Nature Biotechnology 22, 959–960
(August 2004); doi:10.1038/nbt0804-959
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Mouse model of Noonan syndrome reveals cell type- and gene dosage-dependent effects of Ptpn11 mutation
Toshiyuki Araki, M Golam Mohi, Fraz A Ismat, Roderick T Bronson, Ifor R Williams, Jeffery L Kutok, Wentian Yang, Lily I Pao, D Gary Gilliland, Jonathan A Epstein and Benjamin G Neel
Nature Medicine 10, 849–857
(August 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1084
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historical perspective
Cancer genes and the pathways they control
Bert Vogelstein and Kenneth W Kinzler
Nature Medicine 10, 789–799
(August 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1087
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review article
Overweight, obesity and cancer: epidemiological evidence and proposed mechanisms
Eugenia E. Calle and Rudolf Kaaks
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 579–591
(August 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1408
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letters to nature
Rb inactivation promotes genomic instability by uncoupling cell cycle progression from mitotic control
Eva Hernando, Zaher Nahlé , Gloria Juan, Elena Diaz-Rodriguez, Miguel Alaminos, Michael Hemann, Loren Michel, Vivek Mittal, William Gerald, Robert Benezra, Scott W. Lowe and Carlos Cordon-Cardo
Nature 430, 797–802
(12 August 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02820
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SMYD3 encodes a histone methyltransferase involved in the proliferation of cancer cells
Ryuji Hamamoto, Yoichi Furukawa, Masashi Morita, Yuko Iimura, Fabio Pittella Silva, Meihua Li, Ryuichiro Yagyu and Yusuke Nakamura
Nature Cell Biology 6, 731–740
(August 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1151
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From chromatin to cancer: a new histone lysine methyltransferase enters the mix
Robert J. Sims 3rd and Danny Reinberg
Nature Cell Biology 6, 685–687
(August 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb0804-685
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perspectives
Opinion: Inflammation and necrosis promote tumour growth
Jukka Vakkila and Michael T. Lotze
Nature Reviews Immunology 4, 641–648
(August 2004); doi:10.1038/nri1415
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review article
Pathways of apoptotic and non-apoptotic death in tumour cells
Hitoshi Okada and Tak W. Mak
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 592–603
(August 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1412
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letter
Heterozygous TGFBR2 mutations in Marfan syndrome
Takeshi Mizuguchi, Gwenaëlle Collod-Beroud, Takushi Akiyama, Marianne Abifadel, Naoki Harada, Takayuki Morisaki, Delphine Allard, Mathilde Varret, Mireille Claustres, Hiroko Morisaki, Makoto Ihara, Akira Kinoshita, Koh-ichiro Yoshiura, Claudine Junien, Tadashi Kajii, Guillaume Jondeau, Tohru Ohta, Tatsuya Kishino, Yoichi Furukawa, Yusuke Nakamura, Norio Niikawa, Catherine Boileau and Naomichi Matsumoto
Nature Genetics 36, 855–860
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TGFβ signaling in health and disease
Rosemary J Akhurst
Nature Genetics 36, 790–792
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Opinion: Integrated global profiling of cancer
Samir Hanash
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 638–644
(August 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1414
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Acute myeloid leukemia originates from a hierarchy of leukemic stem cell classes that differ in self-renewal capacity
Kristin J Hope, Liqing Jin and John E Dick
Nature Immunology 5, 738–743
(July 2004); doi:10.1038/ni1080
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Cancer stem cells refined
David T Scadden
Nature Immunology 5, 701–703
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Hyaluronan: from extracellular glue to pericellular cue
Bryan P. Toole
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 528–539
(July 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1391
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PML regulates p53 stability by sequestering Mdm2 to the nucleolus
Rosa Bernardi, Pier Paolo Scaglioni, Stephan Bergmann, Henning F. Horn, Karen H. Vousden and Pier Paolo Pandolfi
Nature Cell Biology 6, 665–672
(July 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1147
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Insulin-like growth factors and neoplasia
Michael N. Pollak, Eva S. Schernhammer and Susan E. Hankinson
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 505–518
(July 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1387
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Cyclin-dependent kinases regulate the antiproliferative function of Smads
Isao Matsuura , Natalia G. Denissova , Guannan Wang , Dongming He , Jianyin Long and Fang Liu
Nature 430, 226–231
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Opinion: Analysis of genomic targets reveals complex functions of MYC
Jagruti H. Patel, Andrey P. Loboda, Michael K. Showe, Louise C. Showe and Steven B. McMahon
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 562–568
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Cancer: Understanding the target
M R Stratton & P A Futreal
Nature 430, 30
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Cancer and the chemokine network
Fran Balkwill
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 540–550
(July 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1388
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Exploiting tumour hypoxia in cancer treatment
J. Martin Brown and William R. Wilson
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 437–447
(June 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1367
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Dissecting the metastatic cascade
Klaus Pantel and Ruud H. Brakenhoff
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 448–456
(June 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1370
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Acute myeloid leukemia induced by graded reduction of a lineage-specific transcription factor, PU.1
Frank Rosenbauer, Katharina Wagner, Jeffery L Kutok, Hiromi Iwasaki, Michelle M Le Beau, Yutaka Okuno, Koichi Akashi, Steven Fiering and Daniel G Tenen
Nature Genetics 36, 624–630
(June 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1361
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Fine-tuning PU.1
Derek L Stirewalt
Nature Genetics 36, 550–551
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Structural basis of phosphopeptide recognition by the BRCT domain of BRCA1
R Scott Williams, Megan S Lee, D Duong Hau and J N Mark Glover
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 11, 519–525
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The anti-angiogenic basis of metronomic chemotherapy
Robert S. Kerbel and Barton A. Kamen
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 423–436
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Structure and mechanism of BRCA1 BRCT domain recognition of phosphorylated BACH1 with implications for cancer
Julie A Clapperton, Isaac A Manke, Drew M Lowery, Timmy Ho, Lesley F Haire, Michael B Yaffe and Stephen J Smerdon
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 11, 512–518
(June 2004); doi:10.1038/nsmb775
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Structural basis of phosphopeptide recognition by the BRCT domain of BRCA1
R Scott Williams, Megan S Lee, D Duong Hau & J N Mark Glover
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 11, 519–525
(June 2004); doi:10.1038/nsmb776
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Subtractive proteomic mapping of the endothelial surface in lung and solid tumours for tissue-specific therapy
Phil Oh, Yan Li, Jingyi Yu, Eberhard Durr, Karolina M. Krasinska, Lucy A. Carver, Jacqueline E. Testa and Jan E. Schnitzer
Nature 429, 629–635
(10 June 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02580
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Molecular medicine: The writing is on the vessel wall
Christopher H. Contag and Michael H. Bachmann
Nature 429, 618–619
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Functional proteomic screens reveal an essential extracellular role for hsp90α in cancer cell invasiveness
Brenda K. Eustace, Takashi Sakurai, Jean K. Stewart, Dean Yimlamai, Christine Unger, Carol Zehetmeier, Blanca Lain, Claudia Torella, Stefan W. Henning, Gerald Beste, Bradley T. Scroggins, Len Neckers, Leodevico L. Ilag and Daniel G. Jay
Nature Cell Biology 6, 507–514
(June 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1131
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Hsp90 invades the outside
Didier Picard
Nature Cell Biology 6, 479–480
(June 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb0604-479
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mTOR inhibition reverses Akt-dependent prostate intraepithelial neoplasia through regulation of apoptotic and HIF-1-dependent pathways
Pradip K Majumder, Phillip G Febbo, Rachel Bikoff, Raanan Berger, Qi Xue, Louis M McMahon, Judith Manola, James Brugarolas, Timothy J McDonnell, Todd R Golub, Massimo Loda, Heidi A Lane and William R Sellers
Nature Medicine 10, 594–601
(June 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1052
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TORward AKTually useful mouse models
Ingo K Mellinghoff and Charles L Sawyers
Nature Medicine 10, 579–580
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A renaissance for SRC
Timothy J. Yeatman
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 470–480
(June 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1366
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Opinion: Yeast as a model system for anticancer drug discovery
Julian A. Simon and Antonio Bedalov
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 481– 487
(June 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1372
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Targeted therapy for brain tumours
Maciej S. Lesniak and Henry Brem
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 3, 499–508
(June 2004); doi:10.1038/nrd1414
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An autonomous molecular computer for logical control of gene expression
Yaakov Benenson, Binyamin Gil, Uri Ben-Dor, Rivka Adar and Ehud Shapiro
Nature 429, 423–429
(27 May 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02551
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Automata make antisense
Anne Condon
Nature 429, 351–352
(27 May 2004); doi:10.1038/429351a
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The translation factor eIF-4E promotes tumor formation and cooperates with c-Myc in lymphomagenesis
Davide Ruggero, Lorenzo Montanaro, Li Ma, Wei Xu, Paola Londei, Carlos Cordon-Cardo and Pier Paolo Pandolfi
Nature Medicine 10, 484–486
(May 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1042
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Molecules and mechanisms of the graft-versus-leukaemia effect
Marie Bleakley and Stanley R. Riddell
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 371–380
(May 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1365
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C/EBPα mutations in acute myeloid leukaemias
Claus Nerlov
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 394–400
(May 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1363
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Requirement of Src kinases Lyn, Hck and Fgr for BCR-ABL1-induced B-lymphoblastic leukemia but not chronic myeloid leukemia
Yiguo Hu, Yuhua Liu, Shawn Pelletier, Elisabeth Buchdunger, Markus Warmuth, Doriano Fabbro, Michael Hallek, Richard A Van Etten and Shaoguang Li
Nature Genetics 36, 453–461
(May 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1343
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Src kinases in Ph+ lymphoblastic leukemia
Michael Deininger
Nature Genetics 36, 440–441
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Searching for the hereditary causes of renal-cell carcinoma
Christian P. Pavlovich and Laura S. Schmidt
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 381–393
(May 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1364
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Timeline: The discovery of receptor tyrosine kinases: targets for cancer therapy
Andreas Gschwind, Oliver M. Fischer and Axel Ullrich
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 361–370
(May 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1360
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The TOR pathway: a target for cancer therapy
Mary-Ann Bjornsti and Peter J. Houghton
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 335–348
(May 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1362
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Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-δ attenuates colon carcinogenesis
Fred S Harman, Christopher J Nicol, Holly E Marin, Jerrold M Ward, Frank J Gonzalez and Jeffrey M Peters
Nature Medicine 10, 481–483
(May 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1026
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The proteasome: a suitable antineoplastic target
Julian Adams
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 349–360
(May 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1361
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Molecular targets in pituitary tumours
Anthony P. Heaney and Shlomo Melmed
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 285–295
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1320
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Timeline: The evolution of thalidomide and its IMiD derivatives as anticancer agents
J. Blake Bartlett, Keith Dredge and Angus G. Dalgleish
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 314–322
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1323
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Cancer: Enzymes play molecular tag
Deborah K. Morrison
Nature 428, 813–815
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Tracing the network connecting brca and fanconi anaemia proteins
Ashok R. Venkitaraman
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 266–276
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1321
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A receptor for green tea polyphenol EGCG
Hirofumi Tachibana, Kiyoshi Koga, Yoshinori Fujimura and Koji Yamada
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 11, 380–381
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nsmb743
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Cancer: Kip moving
John G. Collard
Nature 428, 705–708
(15 April 2004); doi:10.1038/428705a
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A signalling pathway controlling c-Myc degradation that impacts oncogenic transformation of human cells
Elizabeth Yeh, Melissa Cunningham, Hugh Arnold, Dawn Chasse, Teresa Monteith, Giovanni Ivaldi, William C. Hahn, P. Todd Stukenberg, Shirish Shenolikar, Takafumi Uchida, Christopher M. Counter, Joseph R. Nevins, Anthony R. Means and Rosalie Sears
Nature Cell Biology 6, 308–318
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1110
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PINning down the c-Myc oncoprotein
David Dominguez-Sola and Riccardo Dalla-Favera
Nature Cell Biology 6, 288–289
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb0404-288
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The pathobiology of mucositis
Stephen T. Sonis
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 277–284
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1318
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Shutting down Wnt signal-activated cancer
M Mark Taketo
Nature Genetics 36, 320–322
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ng0404-320
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Cell biology: Competitive edge
Amanda Tromans
Nature 428, 609
(08 April 2004); doi:10.1038/428609a
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CDC91L1 (PIG-U) is a newly discovered oncogene in human bladder cancer
Zhongmin Guo, Jürgen F. Linn, Guojun Wu, Sarah L Anzick, Claus F Eisenberger, Sarel Halachmi, Yoram Cohen, Alexey Fomenkov, Mohammad Obaidul Hoque, Kenji Okami, Gabriel Steiner, James M Engles, Motonabu Osada, Chulso Moon, Edward Ratovitski, Jeffrey M Trent, Paul S Meltzer, William H Westra, Lambertus A Kiemeney, Mark P Schoenberg, David Sidransky and Barry Trink
Nature Medicine 10, 374–381
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1010
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Opinion: Rules of evidence for cancer molecular-marker discovery and validation
David F. Ransohoff
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 309–314
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1322
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Inactivation of the Wip1 phosphatase inhibits mammary tumorigenesis through p38 MAPK-mediated activation of the p16Ink4a-p19Arf pathway
Dmitry V Bulavin, Crissy Phillips, Bonnie Nannenga, Oleg Timofeev, Larry A Donehower, Carl W Anderson, Ettore Appella and Albert J Fornace Jr.
Nature Genetics 36, 343–350
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1317
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Wip-ing out cancer
René Bernards
Nature Genetics 36, 319–320
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ng0404-319
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Cancer's sphere of influence
Charlotte Schubert
Nature Medicine 10, 349
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nm0404-349
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Microtubules as a target for anticancer drugs
Mary Ann Jordan and Leslie Wilson
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 253–265
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1317
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Epigenetic inactivation of SFRP genes allows constitutive WNT signaling in colorectal cancer
Hiromu Suzuki, D Neil Watkins, Kam-Wing Jair, Kornel E Schuebel, Sanford D Markowitz, Wei Dong Chen, Theresa P Pretlow, Bin Yang, Yoshimitsu Akiyama, Manon van Engeland, Minoru Toyota, Takashi Tokino, Yuji Hinoda, Kohzoh Imai, James G Herman and Stephen B Baylin
Nature Genetics 36, 417–422
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1330
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Medicine: Profile of a tumour
Olli Kallioniemi
Nature 428, 379–382
(25 March 2004); doi:10.1038/428379b
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A census of human cancer genes
P. Andrew Futreal, Lachlan Coin, Mhairi Marshall, Thomas Down, Timothy Hubbard, Richard Wooster, Nazneen Rahman and Michael R. Stratton
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 177–183
(March 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1299
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Gene expression-based high-throughput screening(GE-HTS) and application to leukemia differentiation
Kimberly Stegmaier, Kenneth N Ross, Sierra A Colavito, Shawn O'Malley, Brent R Stockwell and Todd R Golub
Nature Genetics 36, 257–263
(March 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1305
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Gene expression as a drug discovery tool
William E Evans and R Kip Guy
Nature Genetics 36, 214–215
(March 2004); doi:10.1038/ng0304-214
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The candidate tumour suppressor protein ING4 regulates brain tumour growth and angiogenesis
Igor Garkavtsev, Sergey V. Kozin, Olga Chernova, Lei Xu, Frank Winkler, Edward Brown, Gene H. Barnett and Rakesh K. Jain
Nature 428, 328–332
(18 March 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02329
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Survival signalling by Akt and eIF4E in oncogenesis and cancer therapy
Hans-Guido Wendel, Elisa de Stanchina, Jordan S. Fridman, Abba Malina, Sagarika Ray, Scott Kogan, Carlos Cordon-Cardo, Jerry Pelletier and Scott W. Lowe
Nature 428, 332–337
(18 March 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02369
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Cancer: Survival pathways meet their end
Frank McCormick
Nature 428, 267–269
(18 March 2004); doi:10.1038/428267a
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Bmi1 is essential for cerebellar development and is overexpressed in human medulloblastomas
Carly Leung, Merel Lingbeek, Olga Shakhova, James Liu, Ellen Tanger, Parvin Saremaslani, Maarten van Lohuizen and Silvia Marino
Nature 428, 337–341
(18 March 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02385
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Cancer: Dangerous liaisons
Allan Balmain and Rosemary J. Akhurst
Nature 428, 271–272
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VX-680, a potent and selective small-molecule inhibitor of the Aurora kinases, suppresses tumor growth in vivo
Elizabeth A Harrington, David Bebbington, Jeff Moore, Richele K Rasmussen, Abi O Ajose-Adeogun, Tomoko Nakayama, Joanne A Graham, Cecile Demur, Thierry Hercend, Anita Diu-Hercend, Michael Su, Julian M C Golec and Karen M Miller
Nature Medicine 10, 262–267
(March 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1003
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Aurora kinases dawn as cancer drug targets
Edward A Sausville
Nature Medicine 10, 234–235
(March 2004); doi:10.1038/nm0304-234
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Opinion: Cancer as a robust system: implications for anticancer therapy
Hiroaki Kitano
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 227–235
(March 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1300
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Targeting the checkpoint kinases: chemosensitization versus chemoprotection
Bin-Bing S. Zhou and Jiri Bartek
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 216–225
(March 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1296
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Indian Hedgehog is an antagonist of Wnt signaling in colonic epithelial cell differentiation
Gijs R van den Brink, Sylvia A Bleuming, James C H Hardwick, Berber L Schepman, G Johan Offerhaus, Josbert J Keller, Corinne Nielsen, William Gaffield, Sander J H van Deventer, Drucilla J Roberts & Maikel P Peppelenbosch
Nature Genetics 36, 277–282
(March 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1304
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Inactivation of hCDC4 can cause chromosomal instability
Harith Rajagopalan, Prasad V. Jallepalli, Carlo Rago, Victor E. Velculescu, Kenneth W. Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein and Christoph Lengauer
Nature 428, 77–81
(04 March 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02313
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A non-B-DNA structure at the Bcl-2 major breakpoint region is cleaved by the RAG complex
Sathees C. Raghavan, Patrick C. Swanson, Xiantuo Wu, Chih-Lin Hsieh and Michael R. Lieber
Nature 428, 88–93
(04 March 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02355
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Molecular biology: Case of mistaken identity
Craig H. Bassing and Frederick W. Alt
Nature 428, 29–31
(04 March 2004); doi:10.1038/428029a
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Targeting angiogenesis with a conjugate of HPMA copolymer and TNP-470
Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, Mark Puder, John W Davies, Hai T Tran, David A Sampson, Arin K Greene, Gabriel Corfas and Judah Folkman
Nature Medicine 10, 255–261
(March 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1002
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Activation of nuclear hormone receptor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-d accelerates intestinal adenoma growth
Rajnish A Gupta, Dingzhi Wang, Sharada Katkuri, Haibin Wang, Sudhansu K Dey and Raymond N DuBois
Nature Medicine 10, 245–247
(March 2004); doi:10.1038/nm993
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Fragile fugue: p53 in aging, cancer and IGF signaling
Judith Campisi
Nature Medicine 10, 231–232
(March 2004); doi:10.1038/nm0304-231
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Tumour-suppressor function in the nervous system
Suzanne J. Baker and Peter J. McKinnon
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 184–196
(March 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1297
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Turning the key on p53
David P. Lane and Peter M. Fischer
Nature 427, 789–790
(26 February 2004); doi:10.1038/427789a
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Opinion: Radiation-induced bystander effects — implications for cancer
Colin B. Seymour and Carmel Mothersill
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 158–164
(February 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1277
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Pathology: Cancer cells compress intratumour vessels
Timothy P. Padera, Brian R. Stoll, Jessica B. Tooredman, Diane Capen, Emmanuelle di Tomaso and Rakesh K. Jain
Nature 427, 695
(19 February 2004); doi:10.1038/427695a
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The tumour suppressor RASSF1A regulates mitosis by inhibiting the APC-Cdc20 complex
Min Sup Song, Su Jeong Song, Nagi G. Ayad, Jin Sook Chang, Joo Hyun Lee, Hyun Kyung Hong, Ho Lee, Naeyun Choi, Jhingook Kim, Hojoong Kim, Jin Woo Kim, Eui-Ju Choi, Marc W. Kirschner and Dae-Sik Lim
Nature Cell Biology 6, 129–137
(February 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1091
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Priming of naive T cells inside tumors leads to eradication of established tumors
Ping Yu, Youjin Lee, Wenhua Liu, Robert K Chin, Jing Wang, Yang Wang, Andrea Schietinger, Mary Philip, Hans Schreiber and Yang-Xin Fu
Nature Immunology 5, 141–149
(February 2004); doi:10.1038/ni1029
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LIGHTing the way for tumor immunity
Alan N Houghton
Nature Immunology 5, 123–124
(February 2004); doi:10.1038/ni0204-123
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Expression profiling identifies the cytoskeletal organizer ezrin and the developmental homeoprotein Six-1 as key metastatic regulators
Yanlin Yu, Javed Khan, Chand Khanna, Lee Helman, Paul S Meltzer and Glenn Merlino
Nature Medicine 10, 175–181
(February 2004); doi:10.1038/nm966
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Nuclear transport and cancer: from mechanism to intervention
Tweeny R. Kau , Jeffrey C. Way and Pamela A. Silver
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 106–117
(February 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1274
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EMSY, a BRCA-2 partner in crime
David M Livingston
Nature Medicine 10, 127–128
(February 2004); doi:10.1038/nm0204-127
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The STATs of cancer — new molecular targets come of age
Hua Yu and Richard Jove
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 97–105
(February 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1275
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Crystal structure of MO25α in complex with the C terminus of the pseudo kinase STE20-related adaptor
Christine C Milburn, Jérôme Boudeau, Maria Deak, Dario R Alessi and Daan M F van Aalten
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 11, 193–200
(February 2004); doi:10.1038/nsmb716
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Creating new peptide antigens by slicing and splicing proteins
Victor H Engelhard
Nature Immunology 5, 128–129
(February 2004); doi:10.1038/ni0204-128
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The membrane-cytoskeleton linker ezrin is necessary for osteosarcoma metastasis
Chand Khanna, Xiaolin Wan, Seuli Bose, Ryan Cassaday, Osarenoma Olomu, Arnulfo Mendoza, Choh Yeung, Richard Gorlick, Stephen M Hewitt and Lee J Helman
Nature Medicine 10, 182–186
(February 2004); doi:10.1038/nm982
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Direct evidence that the VEGF-specific antibody bevacizumab has antivascular effects in human rectal cancer
Christopher G Willett, Yves Boucher, Emmanuelle di Tomaso, Dan G Duda, Lance L Munn, Ricky T Tong, Daniel C Chung, Dushyant V Sahani, Sanjeeva P Kalva, Sergey V Kozin, Mari Mino, Kenneth S Cohen, David T Scadden, Alan C Hartford, Alan J Fischman, Jeffrey W Clark, David P Ryan, Andrew X Zhu, Lawrence S Blaszkowsky, Helen X Chen, Paul C Shellito, Gregory Y Lauwers and Rakesh K Jain
Nature Medicine 10, 145–147
(February 2004); doi:10.1038/nm988
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Cell adhesion and signalling by cadherins and Ig-CAMs in cancer
Ugo Cavallaro and Gerhard Christofori
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 118–132
(February 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1276
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Dynamics of the p53-Mdm2 feedback loop in individual cells
Galit Lahav, Nitzan Rosenfeld, Alex Sigal, Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Arnold J Levine, Michael B Elowitz and Uri Alon
Nature Genetics 36, 147–150
(February 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1293
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Monitoring p53's pulse
John J Tyson
Nature Genetics 36, 113–114
(February 2004); doi:10.1038/ng0204-113
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Molecular determinants of resistance to antiandrogen therapy
Charlie D Chen, Derek S Welsbie, Chris Tran, Sung Hee Baek, Randy Chen, Robert Vessella, Michael G Rosenfeld and Charles L Sawyers
Nature Medicine 10, 33–39
(January 2004); doi:10.1038/nm972
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Androgen receptor outwits prostate cancer drugs
John T Isaacs and William B Isaacs
Nature Medicine 10, 26–27
(January 2004); doi:10.1038/nm0104-26
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Mucins in cancer: protection and control of the cell surface
Michael A. Hollingsworth and Benjamin J. Swanson
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 45–60
(January 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1251
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Opinion: Impact of race/ethnicity on molecular pathways in human cancer
John K. Wiencke
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 79–84
(January 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1257
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Peroxisome-proliferator-activated receptors and cancers: complex stories
Liliane Michalik, Béatrice Desvergne and Walter Wahli
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 61–70
(January 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1254
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Immune recognition of a human renal cancer antigen through post-translational protein splicing
Ken-ichi Hanada, Jonathan W. Yewdell and James C. Yang
Nature 427, 252–256
(15 January 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02240
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Immunology: Protein surgery
Hans-Georg Rammensee
Nature 427, 203–204
(15 January 2004); doi:10.1038/427203a
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Ras regulates assembly of mitogenic signalling complexes through the effector protein IMP
Sharon A. Matheny, Chiyuan Chen, Robert L. Kortum, Gina L. Razidlo, Robert E. Lewis and Michael A. White
Nature 427, 256–260
(15 January 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02237
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Polycomb CBX7 has a unifying role in cellular lifespan
Jesús Gil, David Bernard, Dolores Martínez and David Beach
Nature Cell Biology 6, 67–72
(January 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1077
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Regulation of the innate and adaptive immune responses by Stat-3 signaling in tumor cells
Tianhong Wang, Guilian Niu, Marcin Kortylewski, Lyudmila Burdelya, Kenneth Shain, Shumin Zhang, Raka Bhattacharya, Dmitry Gabrilovich, Richard Heller, Domenico Coppola, William Dalton, Richard Jove, Drew Pardoll and Hua Yu
Nature Medicine 10, 48–54
(January 2004); doi:10.1038/nm976
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Cytokines in cancer pathogenesis and cancer therapy
Glenn Dranoff
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 11–22
(January 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1252
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Phosphorylation by aurora kinase A induces Mdm2-mediated destabilization and inhibition of p53
Hiroshi Katayama, Kaori Sasai, Hidehiko Kawai, Zhi-Min Yuan, Jolanta Bondaruk, Fumio Suzuki, Satoshi Fujii, Ralph B Arlinghaus, Bogdan A Czerniak and Subrata Sen
Nature Genetics 36, 55–62
(January 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1279
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Chromosome stability, in the absence of apoptosis, is critical for suppression of tumorigenesis in Trp53 mutant mice
Geng Liu, John M Parant, Gene Lang, Patty Chau, Arturo Chavez-Reyes, Adel K El-Naggar, Asha Multani, Sandy Chang and Guillermina Lozano
Nature Genetics 36, 63–68
(January 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1282
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Conquering the complexity of p53
Laura D Attardi and Ronald A DePinho
Nature Genetics 36, 7–8
(January 2004); doi:10.1038/ng0104-7
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Cancer: Guarding the guardian?
Henning F. Horn and Karen H. Vousden
Nature 427, 110–111
(08 January 2004); doi:10.1038/427110a
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Suppression of breast cancer by chemical modulation of vulnerable zinc fingers in estrogen receptor
Li Hua Wang, Xiao Yi Yang, Xiaohu Zhang, Kelly Mihalic, Ying-Xin Fan, Weihua Xiao, O M Zack Howard, Ettore Appella, Andrew T Maynard and William L Farrar
Nature Medicine 10, 40–47
(January 2004); doi:10.1038/nm969
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Prevention of non-melanoma skin cancer by targeting ultraviolet-B-light signalling
G. Tim Bowden
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 23–35
(January 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1253
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E3 ligase activity and suppression of breast cancer
Angela K Eggleston
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 11, 8–9
(January 2004); doi:10.1038/nsmb0104-8
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