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    Identifizierung und Charakterisierung von potentiellen Interaktionspartnern der Ubiquitin-Protein-Ligase E6-AP

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    Die menschliche Ubiquitin-Protein-Ligase E6-AP gehört zur Familie der HECT-Ligasen und ubiquitiniert im Komplex mit dem E6-Onkoprotein Krebs-assoziierter humaner Papillomviren (HPV) den Tumorsuppressor p53 und markiert ihn damit für den proteasomalen Abbau. In normalen (HPV-negativen) Zellen ist aber über Substrate und Interaktionspartner von E6-AP nur wenig bekannt. Mutationen im E6-AP-kodierenden Gen UBE3A führen zu einer schweren neurologischen Erbkrankheit, dem Angelman-Syndrom. In dieser Arbeit wurden Interaktionspartner von E6-AP im Yeast Two Hybrid -System identifiziert und nachfolgend charakterisiert. Dabei konnten Hinweise auf das HECT-Domänen Protein HERC2 als physiologisch relevantes Substrat von E6-AP erhalten werden. Weiterhin konnte gezeigt werden, dass das E6-AP-interagierende Protein HHR23A einen Einfluss auf das Ubiquitin- Proteasom-System hat und in vitro über seine Ubiquitin-assoziierte (Uba) Domäne an polyubiquitinierte Proteine bindet und sie vor Deubiquitinierung schützt. Für die Ubiquitinähnlichen (Ubl= ubiquitin like) Domänen von HHR23A und CHAP1 konnten spezifische Wechselwirkungen mit Ubiquitin-interagierenden Motiven (UIMs) verschiedener Proteine demonstriert werden. Somit sind UIMs neben Ubiquitin- auch spezifische Ubl-Domänen- Interaktionsmotive. Schließlich konnte nachgewiesen werden, dass UIMs, zumindest in vitro, Ubiquitinierungssignale darstellen, die transferabel sind und von verschiedenen Ubiquitin- Protein-Ligasen erkannt werden

    Adjuvant hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) in patients with colon cancer at high risk of peritoneal carcinomatosis; the COLOPEC randomized multicentre trial

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    Background: The peritoneum is the second most common site of recurrence in colorectal cancer. Early detection of peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) by imaging is difficult. Patients eventually presenting with clinically apparent PC have a poor prognosis. Median survival is only about five months if untreated and the benefit of palliative systemic chemotherapy is limited. Only a quarter of patients are eligible for curative treatment, consisting of cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CR/HIPEC). However, the effectiveness depends highly on the extent of disease and the treatment is associated with a considerable complication rate. These clinical problems underline the need for effective adjuvant therapy in high-risk patients to minimize the risk of outgrowth of peritoneal micro metastases. Adjuvant hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) seems to be suitable for this purpose. Without the need for cytoreductive surgery, adjuvant HIPEC can be performed with a low complication rate and short hospital stay. Methods/Design: The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of adjuvant HIPEC in preventing the development of PC in patients with colon cancer at high risk of peritoneal recurrence. This study will be performed in the nine Dutch HIPEC centres, starting in April 2015. Eligible for inclusion are patients who underwent curative resection for T4 or intra-abdominally perforated cM0 stage colon cancer. After resection of the primary tumour, 176 patients will be randomized to adjuvant HIPEC followed by routine adjuvant systemic chemotherapy in the experimental arm, or to systemic chemotherapy only in the control arm. Adjuvant HIPEC will be performed simultaneously or shortly after the primary resection. Oxaliplatin will be used as chemotherapeutic agent, for 30 min at 42-43 degrees C. Just before HIPEC, 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin will be administered intravenously. Primary endpoint is peritoneal disease-free survival at 18 months. Diagnostic laparoscopy will be performed routinely after 18 months postoperatively in both arms of the study in patients without evidence of disease based on routine follow-up using CT imaging and CEA. Discussion: Adjuvant HIPEC is assumed to reduce the expected 25 % absolute risk of PC in patients with T4 or perforated colon cancer to a risk of 10 %. This reduction is likely to translate into a prolonged overall survival

    Pivotal Role of Nitric Oxide in Chemo and Immuno Sensitization of Resistant Tumor Cells to Apoptosis

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