MiR-221 promotes stemness of breast cancer cells by targeting DNMT3b
// Giuseppina Roscigno 1, 2 , Cristina Quintavalle 1, 2 , Elvira Donnarumma 3 , Ilaria Puoti 1 , Angel Diaz-Lagares 4 , Margherita Iaboni 1 , Danilo Fiore 1 , Valentina Russo 1 , Matilde Todaro 5 , Giulia Romano 6 , Renato Thomas 7 , Giuseppina Cortino 7 , Miriam Gaggianesi 5 , Manel Esteller 4 , Carlo M. Croce 6 , Gerolama Condorelli 1, 2 1 Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, “Federico II” University of Naples, Naples, Italy 2 IEOS-CNR, Naples, Italy 3 IRCCS-SDN, Naples, Italy 4 Epigenetic and Cancer Biology Program (PEBC) IDIBELL, Hospital Duran I Reynals, Barcelona, Spain 5 Department of Surgical and Oncological Sciences, Cellular and Molecular Pathophysiology Lab…
MiR-24 induces chemotherapy resistance and hypoxic advantage in breast cancer
// Giuseppina Roscigno 1, 2, * , Ilaria Puoti 1, 2, * , Immacolata Giordano 1 , Elvira Donnarumma 3 , Valentina Russo 1 , Alessandra Affinito 1 , Assunta Adamo 1 , Cristina Quintavalle 1, 2 , Matilde Todaro 4 , Maria dM Vivanco 5 , Gerolama Condorelli 1, 2 1 Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, “Federico II” University of Naples, Naples, Italy 2 IEOS, CNR, Naples, Italy 3 IRCCS-SDN, Naples, Italy 4 Department of Pathobiology and Medical Biotechnology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy 5 CIC bioGUNE, Centre for Cooperative Research in Biosciences, Derio, Spain * These authors have contributed equally to the paper as first authors Correspondence to: Gerolama Condore…
Highly Homogeneous Biotinylated Carbon Nanodots: Red-Emitting Nanoheaters as Theranostic Agents toward Precision Cancer Medicine
Very recent red-emissive carbon nanodots (CDs) have shown potential as near-infrared converting tools to produce local heat useful in cancer theranostics. Besides, CDs seem very appealing for clinical applications combining hyperthermia, imaging, and drug delivery in a single platform capable of selectively targeting cancer cells. However, CDs still suffer from dramatic dot-to-dot variability issues such that a rational design of their structural, optical, and chemical characteristics for medical applications has been impossible so far. Herein, we report for the first time a simple and highly controllable layer-by-layer synthesis of biotin-decorated CDs with monodisperse size distribution, …