Mechanism of action for leflunomide in rheumatoid arthritis

RI Fox, ML Herrmann, CG Frangou, GM Wahl… - Clinical …, 1999 - Elsevier
Leflunomide (Arava) has recently been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for
the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This approval was based on data from a double-…

[HTML][HTML] PRAK is essential for ras-induced senescence and tumor suppression

…, J Chen, Q Deng, M Yamout, MQ Dong, CG Frangou… - Cell, 2007 - cell.com
Like apoptosis, oncogene-induced senescence is a barrier to tumor development. However,
relatively little is known about the signaling pathways mediating the senescence response. …

Bivalent domains enforce transcriptional memory of DNA methylated genes in cancer cells

…, M Muñoz, L Vives, CG Frangou… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
… (C) Individual data for carcinomas and adenomas sorted by methylation frequency. A white
box indicates unmethylated status and a black box methylated status. The methylation status …

How does leflunomide modulate the immune response in rheumatoid arthritis?

RI Fox, ML Herrmann, CG Frangou, GM Wahl… - BioDrugs, 1999 - Springer
… (c) Addition of uridine up to 8 hours after A77-1726 will still reverse the block of incorporation
of 3H-labelled thymidine into stimulated lymphocytes. From Cao et al.[1] (panels a and b) …

[HTML][HTML] VGLL4 selectively represses YAP-dependent gene induction and tumorigenic phenotypes in breast cancer

…, A Truskinovsky, Q Fan, IH Gelman, C Frangou… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
… incubated in the water bath at 37 C. Then the agar was diluted … Then the plates were placed
at 4 C for 30 min and 37 C for … at 4 C for 30 min, the plates were cultured at 37 C incubator …

[HTML][HTML] USP1 regulates TAZ protein stability through ubiquitin modifications in breast cancer

…, Y Chen, M Mastri, KH Eng, W Bshara, C Frangou… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
… Membranes were blocked in 5% milk in TBS-T for one hour and incubated overnight at 4 C
with … or His tagged beads overnight at 4 C. Lysates were boiled at 95 C for 10 min to denature …

Characterization of TAZ domains important for the induction of breast cancer stem cell properties and tumorigenesis

YW Li, H Shen, C Frangou, N Yang, J Guo, B Xu… - Cell cycle, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
… (C) Images and quantifications of mammosphere formation of vector or TAZ-4SA transduced
MCF10A cells. Bars denote standard errors (n = 6). Representative images are shown. …

TRAIN (Transcription of Repeats Activates INterferon) in response to chromatin destabilization induced by small molecules in mammalian cells

…, R Pratt, C Burkhart, B Lipchick, I Gitlin, C Frangou… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
… We named this phenomenon chromatin-trapping or c-trapping. Although curaxins do not
bind and inhibit FACT directly, they cause exhaustion of FACT by trapping it in heterochromatin. …

[HTML][HTML] Sox4 expression confers bladder cancer stem cell properties and predicts for poor patient outcome

H Shen, M Blijlevens, N Yang, C Frangou… - … journal of biological …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genetic and epigenetic alterations have been identified as to contribute directly or indirectly
to the generation of transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder (TCC-UB). We have …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of the Hippo signaling pathway by deubiquitinating enzymes in cancer

A Mussell, C Frangou, J Zhang - Genes & diseases, 2019 - Elsevier
… USPs have a highly conserved USP domain, which allows direct binding to ubiquitin.4, 5,
6 The second family of DUBs, ubiquitin c-terminal hydrolases (UCHs), is named for their C-…