RNA/DNA and Cancer - Sinkovics, Joseph G.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
Preface. Introductions. I THE PRIMORDIAL RNA/DNA COMPLEX EVOLVING -- The Primordial Genes Are Conserved as Stem Cell Genes and Proto-Oncogenes -- The First Cells Ascend -- Eukaryotic Single Cells and the First Cell Communities Then and Now -- A Highly Effective Immune System Predating Adaptive Immunity -- Elements of Adaptive Immunity Self-Assemble -- The RNA/DNA Complex at Work -- YY Proteins -- Elusive Alleles -- The Long Trajectory of the IGF-like Receptor and Its Ligands -- Primordial Fused Genes Become Oncogenes and Encode Oncoproteins -- Performance in the Laboratory -- Inbuilt Errors not yet Corrected -- Errors or Inherent Attributes for the Sustenance of Unicellular Life -- Viral Genomic Insertions into the Host Cell's Genome -- Viral and Cellular Proteins Interact -- Light Cast to Broken DNA, Its Repair, and Consequences -- Undisciplined Introns -- Elementary Epigenomics -- RNA/DNA: Bioengineers Supreme -- II THE ONCOGENOME -- Seamless Unity of the Nucleus and Cytoplasm: the Membranes Are Permeable -- Endogenously Initiated Immortalization is Welcome. Enforced Carcinogenesis by Exogenous Alien Initiator Is Resisted -- A Condensed Compendium -- "Malignant Transformation" -- III THE HUMAN CEREBRAL CORTICAL DNA AGAINST CANCER CELL DNA -- Will the Human Cerebral Cortex Subdue the Oncogenome?- In Self-Defense, the Cancer Cell Reactivates Its Primordial Genome Loaded with Proviruses in Order to Mobilize All Its Remaining Survival Pathways -- The Cancer Cell Viewed as a Unicellular Parasite (an Amoeba) -- Astute Observers Withstand Derision -- "Making Cancer History" at M.D. Anderson Hospital -- SUMMARY -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Index. .
Keywords: Cancer research; Cell biology; Immunology; Oncology .; Cancer Research; Cell Biology; Immunology; Oncology