ReviewCell & bioscience2020
Thymidine kinase 1 through the ages: a comprehensive review.
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- The role of serum thymidine kinase 1 activity in neoadjuvant-treated HER2-positive breast cancer: biomarker analysis from the Swedish phase II randomized PREDIX HER2 trial.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2024Trial
- Avutometinib, Abemaciclib, and Fulvestrant in Patients with HR+/HER2- Metastatic Breast Cancer Previously Treated with CDK4/6 Inhibitor: A Single-Arm Phase I Trial.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026Article
- Panduratin A Induces Caspase-Dependent Apoptosis and G1-Associated Cell-Cycle Arrest and Enhances TNF-α-Associated Cytotoxicity in NSCLC Cells.Biomolecules · 2026Article
- Prognostic role of thymidine kinase 1 activity in hormone receptor positive metastatic breast cancer. A systematic review and meta-analysis.Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2026Review
- The specificity trap in routine tumor biomarker interpretation: Advancing the 3PM-based clinical decision framework to benefits of patients.The EPMA journal · 2026Review
- Thymidine kinase 1 activity in serum and body cavity fluids of horses with lymphoma.Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2026Article
- Chemotherapeutic Potential of Fluorouracil-Platinum (IV) Prodrugs Against Cisplatin-Resistant Colorectal Cancer Cells.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Genetic variation and proliferation-promoting virulence function of thymidine kinase from Paulownia witches' broom phytoplasma.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Transsynaptic tracing techniques to interrogate neuronal connectivity of glioblastomas.Nature protocols · 2026Review
- Integrative transcriptomic and single-cell analysis reveals metabolic reprogramming and hexosamine biosynthesis-mediated tumor microenvironment remodeling in prostate cancer.Discover oncology · 2026Article
- Vitamin D attenuates the progression of pulmonary fibrosis via inhibiting thymidine kinase 1/PFKFB3-driven glycolysis.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Article
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- Thymidine kinase as a biomarker of chemoresistance in epithelial ovarian cancer using the KELIM model.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Article
- TK1 in gastric cancer: Helicobacter pylori-driven oncogenesis biomarker, utility, and emerging targeted therapies.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Integrating network toxicology and in vitro validation to elucidate PET microplastic-induced osteoarthritis pathogenesis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Article
- Identification of pyrimidine metabolism-based molecular subtypes and prognostic signature to predict immune landscape and guide clinical treatment in prostate cancer.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- Stable Gold@Polydopamine@ssDNA Bioconjugates for Highly Efficient Detection of Tumor-Related mRNA in Living Cells.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Evaluation of thymidine kinase 1 and folate receptor alpha as potential biomarkers in prostate cancer.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Vaccinia Virus-A Swiss Army Knife Against Cancer.Cancers · 2025Review
- Integrated analysis of WGCNA and machine learning identified diagnostic biomarkers in trauma-induced coagulopathy.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Proliferation markers, such as proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), Ki-67, and thymidine kinase 1 (TK1), have potential as diagnostic tools and as prognostic factors in assessing cancer treatment and disease progression. TK1 is involved in cellular proliferation through the recovery of the nucleotide thymidine in the DNA salvage pathway. TK1 upregulation has been found to be an early event in cancer development. In addition, serum levels of TK1 have been shown to be tied to cancer stage, so that higher levels of TK1 indicate a more serious prognosis. As a result of these findings and others, TK1 is not only a potentially viable biomarker for cancer recurrence, treatment monitoring, and survival, but is potentially more advantageous than current biomarkers. Compared to other proliferation markers, TK1 levels during S phase more accurately determine the rate of DNA synthesis in actively dividing tumors. Several reviews of TK1 elaborate on various assays that have been developed to measure levels in the serum of cancer patients in clinical settings. In this review, we include a brief history of important TK1 discoveries and findings, a comprehensive overview of TK1 regulation at DNA to protein levels, and recent findings that indicate TK1's potential role in cancer pathogenesis and its growing potential as a tumor biomarker and therapeutic target.
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