Dissolution of oncofusion transcription factor condensates for cancer therapy

Y Wang, C Yu, G Pei, W Jia, T Li, P Li - Nature Chemical Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer-associated chromosomal rearrangements can result in the expression of numerous
pathogenic fusion proteins. The mechanisms by which fusion proteins contribute to …

Oncogenic fusion proteins and their role in three-dimensional chromatin structure, phase separation, and cancer

IY Quiroga, JH Ahn, GG Wang, D Phanstiel - Current opinion in genetics & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Three-dimensional (3D) chromatin structure plays a critical role in development, gene
regulation, and cellular identity. Alterations to this structure can have profound effects on …

Clinically relevant fusion oncogenes: Detection and practical implications

M Sorokin, E Rabushko… - Therapeutic …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Mechanistically, chimeric genes result from DNA rearrangements and include parts of
preexisting normal genes combined at the genomic junction site. Some rearranged genes …

Integrative pan-cancer genomic and transcriptomic analyses of refractory metastatic cancer

Y Pradat, J Viot, AA Yurchenko, K Gunbin, L Cerbone… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Metastatic relapse after treatment is the leading cause of cancer mortality, and known
resistance mechanisms are missing for most treatments administered to patients. To bridge …

Fusion gene map of acute leukemia revealed by transcriptome sequencing of a consecutive cohort of 1000 cases in a single center

X Chen, F Wang, Y Zhang, X Ma, P Cao, L Yuan… - Blood cancer …, 2021 - nature.com
Fusion genes (FGs) are important genetic abnormalities in acute leukemias, but their variety
and occurrence in acute leukemias remain to be systematically described. Whole …

FusionNeoAntigen: a resource of fusion gene-specific neoantigens

H Kumar, R Luo, J Wen, C Yang, X Zhou… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Among the diverse sources of neoantigens (ie single-nucleotide variants (SNVs), insertions
or deletions (Indels) and fusion genes), fusion gene-derived neoantigens are generally …

The landscape of chimeric RNAs in non-diseased tissues and cells

S Singh, F Qin, S Kumar, J Elfman, E Lin… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Chimeric RNAs and their encoded proteins have been traditionally viewed as unique
features of neoplasia, and have been used as biomarkers and therapeutic targets for …

Whole transcriptome sequencing detects a large number of novel fusion transcripts in patients with AML and MDS

A Stengel, R Shahswar, T Haferlach, W Walter… - Blood …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Fusion transcripts are frequent genetic abnormalities in myeloid malignancies and are often
the basis for risk stratification, minimal residual disease (MRD) monitoring, and targeted …

The landscape of long noncoding RNA-involved and tumor-specific fusions across various cancers

M Guo, ZD Xiao, Z Dai, L Zhu, H Lei… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The majority of the human genome encodes long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) genes, critical
regulators of various cellular processes, which largely outnumber protein-coding genes …

Clinical application of whole transcriptome sequencing for the classification of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

W Walter, R Shahswar, A Stengel, M Meggendorfer… - BMC cancer, 2021 - Springer
Background Considering the clinical and genetic characteristics, acute lymphoblastic
leukemia (ALL) is a rather heterogeneous hematological neoplasm for which current …