Guest Editor:
Jiřà Kohoutek: Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Cell Division is calling for submissions to our Collection on "Cell Division Control and Treatment". This Collection will discuss how the dysregulated progression of the cell cycle can contribute to cancer onset, development and resistance, and can be exploited to improve patient treatment.
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The cell cycle is a very complex and precisely controlled cellular process. It is not a surprise that transition between particular phases of the cell cycle as well as control mechanisms overseeing proper progress through the cell cycle must be embedded. Cyclin-dependent kinases with their specific cyclins carry out the transition between particular cell cycle phases. Dysregulation of their function may drive cell transformation and carcinogenesis by signaling a deregulated cell cycle, and chromosome instability. At the same time, the dependence of cancer cells on more functional drivers or corrupted repressors of the cell cycle causes increased vulnerability of cancer cells to diverse treatments by specific inhibitors. Nevertheless, resistance to chemotherapy or radiotherapy commonly develops during cancer treatment. Thus, the identification of new synthetic lethal combinations of drugs or genetic defects, and suitable biomarkers are critically needed for the exploitation of novel regimens to provide patients with more effective treatment management.
Thus, this Collection will discuss how the dysregulated progression of the cell cycle can contribute to cancer onset, development and resistance, and can be exploited to improve patient treatment.
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Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Cell Division Control and Treatment" from the dropdown menu.
Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.
The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.