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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Christine Chung
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-10300 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Cancer research 20090101 1
Protein kinase Calpha (PKCalpha) has been implicated in cancer, but the mechanism is largely unknown. Here, we show that PKCalpha promotes head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCCHN) by a feed-forward network leading to cell cycle deregulation. PKCalpha inhibitors decrease proliferation in SCCHN cell lines and xenografted tumors. PKCalpha inhibition or depletion in tumor cells decreases DNA synthesis by suppressing extracellular signal-regulated kinase phosphorylation and cyclin E synthesis. A ...[more]