The Role of the NF-kappaB Transcriptome and Proteome as Biomarkers in Human Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas.
NF-kappaB is a family of signal activated transcription factors comprised of hetero- or homo-dimers from 5 different subunits, NF-kappaB1, NF-kappaB2, RELA, cREL and RELB. NF-kappaBs normally are transiently activated in response to infection or injury, but in cancers are aberrantly activated, regulating a transcriptome of hundreds of genes and corresponding proteome that promote pathogenesis and therapeutic resistance. In head and neck squamous cell carcinomas, an important role of NF-kappaB in regulation of the altered transcriptome and proteome has been established, providing a catalog of activating and target genes and proteins that may be useful as biomarkers of alterations in this pathway for this and other cancers. An emerging appreciation that NF-kappaB and other signal pathways form an altered regulatory network highlights the need to use biomarkers and combine targeted agents for personalized therapy of cancer.
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Head and Neck Surgery Branch, national Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA Tel: +1 301-402-4216.
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