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Species | THOMAS DAVID GILMORESummaryAffiliation: Boston University Country: USA Publications
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The Re1/NF-kappa B/I kappa B signal transduction pathway and cancerThomas D Gilmore
Biology Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Cancer Treat Res 115:241-65. 2003
A report from the second Nematostella vectensis research conferenceThomas D Gilmore
Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
Dev Genes Evol 223:207-11. 2013..In addition, research was presented on the use of Nematostella in developmental, regeneration, signal transduction, host-symbiont, and gene-environment interaction studies...
NF-κB: where did it come from and why?Thomas D Gilmore
Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Immunol Rev 246:14-35. 2012....
Inhibition of NF-κB signaling as a strategy in disease therapyThomas D Gilmore
Biology Department, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 349:245-63. 2011..Finally, the rationale and strategies for inhibiting specific NF-κB subunit activity for disease therapy are discussed...
Multiple myeloma: lusting for NF-kappaBThomas D Gilmore
Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Cancer Cell 12:95-7. 2007..These results reveal the molecular basis for constitutive NF-kappaB activity in many MMs and further validate the NF-kappaB signaling pathway as an appropriate target for MM therapy...
Inhibitors of NF-kappaB signaling: 785 and countingT D Gilmore
Biology Department, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Oncogene 25:6887-99. 2006..Moreover, the therapeutic and preventative effects of many natural products may, at least in part, be due to their ability to inhibit NF-kappaB...
Introduction to NF-kappaB: players, pathways, perspectivesT D Gilmore
Biology Department, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Oncogene 25:6680-4. 2006..The organization and focus of articles included in the following reviews are described, as well as likely future areas of research interest on NF-kappaB...
Malignant transformation of primary chicken spleen cells by human transcription factor c-RelT D Gilmore
Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, MA 02215, USA
Oncogene 20:7098-103. 2001..These results are the first demonstration of a lymphoid cell malignant transforming ability for mammalian Rel/NF-kappaB transcription factors, and implicate c-Rel as a molecular target for cancer therapeutics...
The c-Rel transcription factor and B-cell proliferation: a deal with the devilThomas D Gilmore
Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Oncogene 23:2275-86. 2004..In any event, REL may provide an appropriate therapeutic target for certain human lymphoid cell malignancies...
Stable expression of the avian retroviral oncoprotein v-Rel in avian, mouse, and dog cell linesThomas D Gilmore
Biology Department, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Virology 316:9-16. 2003..The findings reported here are an essential first step in the development of mammalian systems to study Rel-mediated oncogenesis...
Rel/NF-kappa B/I kappa B signal transduction in the generation and treatment of human cancerThomas Gilmore
Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Cancer Lett 181:1-9. 2002..In many cases, inhibition of Rel/NF-kappa B activity reverses all or part of the malignant state. Thus, the Rel/NF-kappa B pathway has received much attention as a focal point for clinical intervention...
Immortalized embryonic mouse fibroblasts lacking the RelA subunit of transcription factor NF-kappaB have a malignantly transformed phenotypeMaria-Emily R Gapuzan
Biology Department, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Oncogene 21:2484-92. 2002..Taken together, these results suggest that RelA has tumor suppressing activity under some circumstances and that RelA complexes are involved in the control of a variety of cellular properties associated with oncogenesis...
Histone acetyltransferase p300 is a coactivator for transcription factor REL and is C-terminally truncated in the human diffuse large B-cell lymphoma cell line RC-K8Michael R Garbati
Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Cancer Lett 291:237-45. 2010..However, due to a deletion in the EP300 locus, only a C-terminally truncated form of p300 is expressed in RC-K8 cells. These results suggest a role for p300 in REL-mediated oncogenic activity in B lymphoma...
Deletion of either C-terminal transactivation subdomain enhances the in vitro transforming activity of human transcription factor REL in chicken spleen cellsDaniel T Starczynowski
Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Oncogene 22:6928-36. 2003....
Immortalized fibroblasts from NF-kappaB RelA knockout mice show phenotypic heterogeneity and maintain increased sensitivity to tumor necrosis factor alpha after transformation by v-RasMaria-Emily R Gapuzan
Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Oncogene 24:6574-83. 2005..These results suggest that RelA is a potential protein target for human tumors driven by oncogenic Ras mutations, but caution that inhibition of RelA may promote tumorigenesis in some circumstances...
Ser484 and Ser494 in REL are the major sites of IKK phosphorylation in vitro: evidence that IKK does not directly enhance GAL4-REL transactivationMichael R Garbati
Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Gene Expr 14:195-205. 2008..Taken together, these results do not support a role for IKK-mediated phosphorylation as means for regulating the activity of REL in vivo...
Characterization of a human REL-estrogen receptor fusion protein with a reverse conditional transforming activity in chicken spleen cellsDemetrios Kalaitzidis
Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, MA 02215, USA
Oncogene 23:7580-7. 2004....
Mutations of tumor necrosis factor alpha-responsive serine residues within the C-terminal transactivation domain of human transcription factor REL enhance its in vitro transforming abilityDaniel T Starczynowski
Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Oncogene 24:7355-68. 2005..Lastly, these results suggest that similar mutations in the REL transactivation domain contribute to the development of certain human B-cell lymphomas...
The synthetic epoxyquinoids jesterone dimer and epoxyquinone A monomer induce apoptosis and inhibit REL (human c-Rel) DNA binding in an IkappaBalpha-deficient diffuse large B-cell lymphoma cell lineMei-Chih Liang
Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Cancer Lett 241:69-78. 2006..These results suggest that JD and EqM can induce apoptosis in IkappaBalpha-deficient lymphoma cells through a mechanism involving direct inhibition of transcription factor REL...
The human B-cell lymphoma cell line RC-K8 has multiple genetic alterations that dysregulate the Rel/NF-kappaB signal transduction pathwayDemetrios Kalaitzidis
Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, MA 02215, USA
Oncogene 21:8759-68. 2002..Nevertheless, the RC-K8 cell line is the first tumor cell line identified with mutations in genes encoding multiple proteins in the Rel/NF-kappaB signal transduction pathway...
Rel homology domain-containing transcription factors in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensisJames C Sullivan
Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Dev Genes Evol 217:63-72. 2007....
Mutations within a conserved protein kinase A recognition sequence confer temperature-sensitive and partially defective activities onto mouse c-RelMaria Emily R Gapuzan
Biology Department, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215 2406, USA
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 307:92-9. 2003..Conditional and partially defective mutants such as those described herein may be useful for identifying physiological responses and genes regulated by specific Rel/NF-kappaB family members...
Jesterone dimer, a synthetic derivative of the fungal metabolite jesterone, blocks activation of transcription factor nuclear factor kappaB by inhibiting the inhibitor of kappaB kinaseMei-Chih Liang
Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Mol Pharmacol 64:123-31. 2003....
Characterization of the core elements of the NF-κB signaling pathway of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensisFrancis S Wolenski
Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Mol Cell Biol 31:1076-87. 2011..These results indicate that NF-κB pathway proteins in Nematostella are similar to their vertebrate homologs, and these results also provide a framework for understanding the evolutionary origins of NF-κB signaling...
Genomic organization and expression of the rearranged REL proto-oncogene in the human B-cell lymphoma cell line RC-K8Demetrios Kalaitzidis
Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Genes Chromosomes Cancer 34:129-35. 2002..Furthermore, like c-Rel, c-Rel-Nrg is a cytoplasmic protein when overexpressed in fibroblasts in culture and can bind to a kappaB DNA site in vitro...
Two alleles of NF-kappaB in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis are widely dispersed in nature and encode proteins with distinct activitiesJames C Sullivan
Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 4:e7311. 2009..NF-kappaB proteins contain a highly conserved DNA-binding/dimerization domain called the Rel homology domain...
Alternative splicing in the NF-kappaB signaling pathwayJoshua R Leeman
Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Gene 423:97-107. 2008..Moreover, some NF-kappaB alternative splicing events appear to be specific for certain diseases, and could serve as therapeutic targets or biomarkers...
Angiogenesis inhibitor epoxyquinol a: total synthesis and inhibition of transcription factor NF-kappaBChaomin Li
Department of Chemistry and Center for Streamlined Synthesis, Boston University, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Org Lett 4:3267-70. 2002..In addition, we show that 1 and related molecules inhibit activation of the transcription factor NF-kappaB...
Inhibition of transcription factor NF-kappaB signaling proteins IKKbeta and p65 through specific cysteine residues by epoxyquinone A monomer: correlation with its anti-cancer cell growth activityMei-Chih Liang
Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Biochem Pharmacol 71:634-45. 2006..Taken together, these results suggest that EqM inhibits growth and induces cell death in tumor cells through a mechanism that involves inhibition of NF-kappaB activity at multiple steps in the signaling pathway...
Transcription factor cross-talk: the estrogen receptor and NF-kappaBDemetrios Kalaitzidis
Boston University, Department of Biology, 5 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Trends Endocrinol Metab 16:46-52. 2005..Such cross-talk between these important regulators of the endocrine and immune systems might be exploited for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory and autoimmune diseases...
Research Grants
- TRANSFORMATION OF CELLS BY THE V-REL ONCOGENEThomas Gilmore; Fiscal Year: 1999..Together, these experiments will serve as models for understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the development of a subset of human lymphoid malignancies. ..
- Transformation of Cells by the REL OncogeneThomas Gilmore; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- TRANSFORMATION OF CELLS BY THE V REL ONCOGENEThomas Gilmore; Fiscal Year: 2003..A long-term goal of this project will be to develop mammalian model systems for studying Rel-mediated oncogenesis, in order to more closely mimic human cancers that involve alterations in Rel transcription factor function. ..
- Transformation of Cells by the REL OncogeneThomas Gilmore; Fiscal Year: 2009....
