173 results match your criteria: "VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology[Affiliation]"
Front Cell Dev Biol
November 2024
Department of Experimental Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Coronary heart disease is a major global health threat, with acute myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) being a major contributor to myocardial damage following an ischemic event. IRI occurs when blood flow to ischemic tissues is restored and exacerbates the cellular damage caused by ischemia/hypoxia. Although animal studies investigating IRI have provided valuable insights, their translation into clinical outcomes has been limited, and translation into medical practice remains cumbersome.
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November 2024
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology (VIB), 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Recent technological advancements, including computer-assisted drug discovery, gene-editing techniques, and high-throughput screening approaches, have greatly expanded the palette of methods for the discovery of peptides available to researchers. These emerging strategies, driven by recent advances in bioinformatics and multi-omics, have significantly improved the efficiency of peptide drug discovery when compared with traditional in vitro and in vivo methods, cutting costs and improving their reliability. An added benefit of peptide-based drugs is the ability to precisely target protein-protein interactions, which are normally a particularly challenging aspect of drug discovery.
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November 2024
Department of Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Gynecol Oncol
December 2024
Department of Medical Oncology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium; Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address:
Background: The phase II PRIMMO trial investigated a pembrolizumab-based regimen in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic cervical (CC) or endometrial (EC) carcinoma who had at least one prior line of systemic therapy. Here, exploratory studies of the gut microbiome (GM) are presented.
Methods: The microbial composition of 77 longitudinal fecal samples obtained from 35 patients (CC, n = 15; EC, n = 20) was characterized using 16S rRNA gene sequencing.
Oncogene
October 2024
Department of Molecular Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA.
Systemic levels of methylmalonic acid (MMA), a byproduct of propionate metabolism, increase with age and MMA promotes tumor progression via its direct effects in tumor cells. However, the role of MMA in modulating the tumor ecosystem remains to be investigated. The proliferation and function of CD8 T cells, key anti-tumor immune cells, declines with age and in conditions of vitamin B12 deficiency, which are the two most well-established conditions that lead to increased systemic levels of MMA.
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October 2024
Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea.
Computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) plays a key role in cancer diagnosis or screening. Whereas, current CAD performs poorly on whole slide image (WSI) analysis, and thus fails to generalize well. This research aims to develop an automatic classification system to distinguish between different types of carcinomas.
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December 2024
Laboratory for Translational Genetics, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address:
The spatial organization of cells within tissues aids in understanding physiological and pathological processes, as well as elucidating the mechanisms of action underlying treatments. We present a protocol for analyzing image-based spatial proteomics data. To illustrate, we focus on whole-slide images of human multiplexed tumor tissues acquired using the PhenoCycler-Fusion 2.
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October 2024
Cell Death Research and Therapy Laboratory, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, Leuven, Belgium.
FASEB Bioadv
September 2024
Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus Research Center for Innate Immunology Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark.
Nat Commun
October 2024
Laboratory of Lipid Metabolism and Cancer, KU Leuven and Leuven Cancer Institute (LKI), Leuven, Belgium.
A spontaneously occurring temperature increase in solid tumors has been reported sporadically, but is largely overlooked in terms of cancer biology. Here we show that temperature is increased in tumors of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and explore how this could affect therapy response. By mimicking this observation in PDAC cell lines, we demonstrate that through adaptive changes in lipid metabolism, the temperature increase found in human PDAC confers protection to lipid peroxidation and contributes to gemcitabine resistance.
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September 2024
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology (VIB), 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Despite the advances in modern cancer therapy, malignant diseases are still a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Conventional treatment methods frequently lead to side effects and drug resistance in patients, highlighting the need for novel therapeutic approaches. Recent findings have identified the existence of non-canonical micropeptides, an additional layer of the proteome complexity, also called the microproteome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOpen Heart
September 2024
British Heart Foundation Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Cancer Res
November 2024
Department of Oncology, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, and KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
In the first pan-cancer analysis of the tumor vasculature, Pan and colleagues profile nearly 200,000 endothelial cells (EC) and mural cells, identifying novel subclusters and cell states using consensus trajectory inference. They identify differentiation trajectories in vascular and lymphatic ECs and subtype the pericyte (PC) population. During sprouting angiogenesis, venous cells dedifferentiate and transition to capillary and, finally, arterial ECs.
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August 2024
Center for Microbiology, VIB, Leuven-Heverlee, Belgium.
Many cancer cells share with yeast a preference for fermentation over respiration, which is associated with overactive glucose uptake and breakdown, a phenomenon called the Warburg effect in cancer cells. The yeast mutant shows even more pronounced hyperactive glucose uptake and phosphorylation causing glycolysis to stall at GAPDH, initiation of apoptosis through overactivation of Ras and absence of growth on glucose. The goal of the present work was to use the yeast strain to screen for novel compounds that would preferentially inhibit overactive glucose influx into glycolysis, while maintaining basal glucose catabolism.
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October 2024
Department of Oncology, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology and KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
As angiogenesis was recognized as a core hallmark of cancer growth and survival, several strategies have been implemented to target the tumour vasculature. Yet to date, attempts have rarely been so diverse, ranging from vessel growth inhibition and destruction to vessel normalization, reprogramming and vessel growth promotion. Some of these strategies, combined with standard of care, have translated into improved cancer therapies, but their successes are constrained to certain cancer types.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAtherosclerosis
October 2024
Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Nephrology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, Inflammatory Diseases, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address:
Background And Aims: Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)-associated vasculitides (AAV) is associated with an increased cardiovascular risk, particularly the myeloperoxidase AAV serotype (MPO-AAV). Distinct alterations in monocyte phenotypes may cause accelerated atherosclerotic disease in AAV.
Methods: A cohort including 43 AAV patients and 19 healthy controls was included for downstream analyses.
Front Cell Dev Biol
August 2024
Department of Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam University Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Atherosclerosis
September 2024
Department of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Centre Utrecht, University Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Background And Aims: Systemic low-grade inflammation, measured by plasma high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) levels, is an important risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). To date, however, it is unknown whether plasma hsCRP is associated with adverse histological plaque features.
Methods: Plaques were derived during carotid endarterectomy.
Cell
July 2024
Laboratory of Cellular Metabolism and Metabolic Regulation, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Laboratory of Cellular Metabolism and Metabolic Regulation, Department of Oncology, KU Leuven and Leuven Cancer Institute (LKI), Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address:
If you are a scientist and you only know one thing about tumor metabolism, it's likely the Warburg effect. But who was Otto Warburg, and how did his discoveries regarding the metabolism of tumors shape our current thinking about the metabolic needs of cancer cells?
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July 2024
VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, VIB, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels, Belgium.
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are central in cell metabolism but research tools for the structural and functional characterization of these PPIs are often missing. Here we introduce broadly applicable immunization (Cross-link PPIs and immunize llamas, ChILL) and selection strategies (Display and co-selection, DisCO) for the discovery of diverse nanobodies that either stabilize or disrupt PPIs in a single experiment. We apply ChILL and DisCO to identify competitive, connective, or fully allosteric nanobodies that inhibit or facilitate the formation of the SOS1•RAS complex and modulate the nucleotide exchange rate on this pivotal GTPase in vitro as well as RAS signalling in cellulo.
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July 2024
Department of Genomic Medicine, GENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncology, Pfizer-University of Granada and Andalusian Regional Government, PTS, Granada, Spain.
Over the last two decades, major advances in the field of tumor dormancy have been made. Yet, it is not completely understood how dormant disseminated tumor cells survive and transition to a proliferative state to generate a metastatic lesion. On the other hand, metabolic rewiring has been shown to influence metastasis development through the modulation of both intracellular signaling and the crosstalk between metastatic cells and their microenvironment.
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September 2024
Department of Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Importance: Lipoprotein(a) (Lp[a]) is a causal risk factor for cardiovascular disease; however, long-term effects on coronary atherosclerotic plaque phenotype, high-risk plaque formation, and pericoronary adipose tissue inflammation remain unknown.
Objective: To investigate the association of Lp(a) levels with long-term coronary artery plaque progression, high-risk plaque, and pericoronary adipose tissue inflammation.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This single-center prospective cohort study included 299 patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) who underwent per-protocol repeated coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) imaging with an interscan interval of 10 years.
EMBO J
July 2024
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
The RAS pathway is among the most frequently activated signaling nodes in cancer. However, the mechanisms that alter RAS activity in human pathologies are not entirely understood. The most prevalent post-translational modification within the GTPase core domain of NRAS and KRAS is ubiquitination at lysine 128 (K128), which is significantly decreased in cancer samples compared to normal tissue.
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May 2024
Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Düsseldorf and Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Energetic stress compels cells to evolve adaptive mechanisms to adjust their metabolism. Inhibition of mTOR kinase complex 1 (mTORC1) is essential for cell survival during glucose starvation. How mTORC1 controls cell viability during glucose starvation is not well understood.
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April 2024
Laboratory for Translational Breast Cancer Research, Department of Oncology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Research on metastatic cancer has been hampered by limited sample availability. Here we present the breast cancer post-mortem tissue donation program UPTIDER and show how it enabled sampling of a median of 31 (range: 5-90) metastases and 5-8 liquids per patient from its first 20 patients. In a dedicated experiment, we show the mild impact of increasing time after death on RNA quality, transcriptional profiles and immunohistochemical staining in tumor tissue samples.
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