Carbone Francesca Pia, Ancona Pietro, Volinia Stefano, Terrazzan Anna, Bianchi Nicoletta
Department of Translational Medicine, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.
Genomics Core Facility, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland.
Biology (Basel). 2025 Mar 2;14(3):253. doi: 10.3390/biology14030253.
Mutations in the tumor suppressor genes and are associated with the triple-negative breast cancer phenotype, particularly aggressive and hard-to-treat tumors lacking estrogen, progesterone, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2. This research aimed to understand the metabolic and genetic links behind and mutations and investigate their relationship with effective therapies. Using the Cytoscape software, two networks were generated through a bibliographic analysis of articles retrieved from the PubMed-NCBI database. We identified 98 genes deregulated by mutations, and 24 were modulated by therapies. In particular, , , , , and are influenced by , while , , and are influenced by mutation. Moreover, the study evaluated the efficacy of several promising therapies, targeting only /-mutated cells. In this context, CDDO-Imidazolide was shown to increase ROS levels and induce DNA damage. Similarly, resveratrol decreased the expression of the anti-apoptotic gene while it increased both in vitro and in vivo. Other specific drugs were found to induce apoptosis selectively in -mutated cells or block cell growth when the mutation occurs, i.e., 3-deazaneplanocin A, genistein or daidzein, and PARP inhibitors. Finally, over-representation analysis on the genes highlights ferroptosis and proteoglycan pathways as potential drug targets for more effective treatments.
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