A Look Inside of the Complex Pathogenesis of B-RAF(V600E)-Driven Cancer

Theranostics. 2017 May 26;7(7):2108-2110. doi: 10.7150/thno.20460. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

Cancer is a very complex disease, where cell alterations (i.e. gene mutations, dysregulated signaling pathway(s) and epigenetic modifications) contribute to its development and progression. Elucidating the connections among these cell modifications is a critical challenge, in order to understand the mechanisms which are activated from cancer cells to survive and proliferate. Interesting, Prof. Peng Hou and colleagues, at the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, identified unknown epigenetic mechanisms and their involvement in the tumorigenesis of B-RAF(V600E)-driven cancer.

Publication types

  • Editorial
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Carcinogenesis
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • China
  • Humans
  • Melanoma*
  • Mutation
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf / genetics

Substances

  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf