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Vitamin D and Other Molecules in Development and Biological Profiling of Cancer

A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioactives and Nutraceuticals".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 15472

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Prof. Dr. Wojciech Jóźwicki

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Department of Tumour Pathology and Pathomorphology in Departmen of Oncology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Romanowska Street 2, Bydgoszcz 85-796, Poland
Interests: TILs; NDN; bladder cancer; UBC; VDR; melanoma; Vitamin D; Treg; immune system
Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Roszkowski

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Department of Oncology, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Lukasiewicza str. 1, 85-821 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Interests: molecular markers of the effectiveness of oncological treatment; epigenetic factors affecting clinical decisions
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on “Vitamin D and Other Molecules in the Development and Biological Profiling of Cancer” covers a wide range of new research topics and current reviews in the field of molecular stratification of cancer risk, with a particular focus on the role of vitamin D. We welcome original experimental research, review articles, and commentary articles leading to a better understanding of the biological mechanisms driving the origins and progression of cancer. The importance of the microenvironment in which a cancer develops is also relevant for this Special Issue. We value new outlooks on the molecular mechanisms of metabolic and signaling pathways playing key roles in the development of cancer. Potential novel therapeutic targets continue to be a particular point of interest.

Prof. Wojciech Jóźwicki
Prof. Krzysztof Roszkowski
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Keywords

  • vitamin D
  • molecules
  • immune system
  • tumor microenvironment
  • genetics
  • molecular profiling
  • immunohistochemistry
  • molecular pathway
  • treatment target

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Vitamin D Compounds PRI-2191 and PRI-2205 Enhance Anastrozole Activity in Human Breast Cancer Models
by Beata Filip-Psurska, Mateusz Psurski, Artur Anisiewicz, Patrycja Libako, Ewa Zbrojewicz, Magdalena Maciejewska, Michał Chodyński, Andrzej Kutner and Joanna Wietrzyk
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22(5), 2781; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22052781 - 09 Mar 2021
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1,25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol, the hormonally active vitamin D3 metabolite, is known to exhibit therapeutic effects against breast cancer, mainly by lowering the expression of estrogen receptors and aromatase activity. Previously, the safety of the vitamin D active metabolite (24R)-1,24-dihydroxycholecalciferol (PRI-2191) and 1,25(OH) [...] Read more.
1,25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol, the hormonally active vitamin D3 metabolite, is known to exhibit therapeutic effects against breast cancer, mainly by lowering the expression of estrogen receptors and aromatase activity. Previously, the safety of the vitamin D active metabolite (24R)-1,24-dihydroxycholecalciferol (PRI-2191) and 1,25(OH)2D3 analog PRI-2205 was tested, and the in vitro activity of these analogs against different cancer cell lines was studied. We determined the effect of the two vitamin D compounds on anastrozole (An) activity against breast cancer based on antiproliferative activity, ELISA, flow cytometry, enzyme inhibition potency, PCR, and xenograft study. Both the vitamin D active metabolite and synthetic analog regulated the growth of not only estrogen receptor-positive cells (T47D and MCF-7, in vitro and in vivo), but also hormone-independent cancer cells such as SKBR-3 (HER-2-positive) and MDA-MB-231 (triple-negative), despite their relatively low VDR expression. Combined with An, PRI-2191 and PRI-2205 significantly inhibited the tumor growth of MCF-7 cells. Potentiation of the antitumor activity in combined treatment of MCF-7 tumor-bearing mice is related to the reduced activity of aromatase by both An (enzyme inhibition) and vitamin D compounds (switched off/decreased aromatase gene expression, decreased expression of other genes related to estrogen signaling) and by regulation of the expression of the estrogen receptor ERα and VDR. Full article
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Policing Cancer: Vitamin D Arrests the Cell Cycle
by Sachin Bhoora and Rivak Punchoo
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21(23), 9296; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21239296 - 06 Dec 2020
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Vitamin D is a steroid hormone crucial for bone mineral metabolism. In addition, vitamin D has pleiotropic actions in the body, including anti-cancer actions. These anti-cancer properties observed within in vitro studies frequently report the reduction of cell proliferation by interruption of the [...] Read more.
Vitamin D is a steroid hormone crucial for bone mineral metabolism. In addition, vitamin D has pleiotropic actions in the body, including anti-cancer actions. These anti-cancer properties observed within in vitro studies frequently report the reduction of cell proliferation by interruption of the cell cycle by the direct alteration of cell cycle regulators which induce cell cycle arrest. The most recurrent reported mode of cell cycle arrest by vitamin D is at the G1/G0 phase of the cell cycle. This arrest is mediated by p21 and p27 upregulation, which results in suppression of cyclin D and E activity which leads to G1/G0 arrest. In addition, vitamin D treatments within in vitro cell lines have observed a reduced C-MYC expression and increased retinoblastoma protein levels that also result in G1/G0 arrest. In contrast, G2/M arrest is reported rarely within in vitro studies, and the mechanisms of this arrest are poorly described. Although the relationship of epigenetics on vitamin D metabolism is acknowledged, studies exploring a direct relationship to cell cycle perturbation is limited. In this review, we examine in vitro evidence of vitamin D and vitamin D metabolites directly influencing cell cycle regulators and inducing cell cycle arrest in cancer cell lines. Full article
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Vitamin D Binding Protein (VDBP) and Its Gene Polymorphisms—The Risk of Malignant Tumors and Other Diseases
by Dominika Rozmus, Alicja Ciesielska, Janusz Płomiński, Roman Grzybowski, Ewa Fiedorowicz, Natalia Kordulewska, Huub Savelkoul, Elżbieta Kostyra and Anna Cieślińska
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21(21), 7822; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21217822 - 22 Oct 2020
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Vitamin D is an important component of the endocrine system that controls calcium homeostasis and bone mineralization. Because of the very short half-life of free serum vitamin D it is stabilized and transported to target tissues by being bound to the vitamin D [...] Read more.
Vitamin D is an important component of the endocrine system that controls calcium homeostasis and bone mineralization. Because of the very short half-life of free serum vitamin D it is stabilized and transported to target tissues by being bound to the vitamin D binding protein (VDBP). The most common polymorphisms: rs4588 and rs7041 in the vitamin D binding protein gene may correlate with differences in vitamin D status in the serum. This review presents data that relate to the presence of genetic variants in the VDBP gene in correlation with certain diseases, mostly concerning cancers (breast, prostate, pancreatic, lung, colorectal, basal cell carcinoma cancer and cutaneous melanoma) or other related diseases (thyroid autoimmunity disorders, obesity, diabetes mellitus, bone metabolism, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, tuberculosis and coronary artery diseases). Full article
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