Targeting epigenetic regulators for cancer therapy: mechanisms and advances in clinical trials

Y Cheng, C He, M Wang, X Ma, F Mo, S Yang… - Signal transduction and …, 2019 - nature.com
Epigenetic alternations concern heritable yet reversible changes in histone or DNA
modifications that regulate gene activity beyond the underlying sequence. Epigenetic …

Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying prostate cancer development: therapeutic implications

U Testa, G Castelli, E Pelosi - Medicines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Prostate cancer is the most frequent nonskin cancer and second most common cause of
cancer-related deaths in man. Prostate cancer is a clinically heterogeneous disease with …

The molecular taxonomy of primary prostate cancer

A Abeshouse, J Ahn, R Akbani, A Ally, S Amin… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
There is substantial heterogeneity among primary prostate cancers, evident in the spectrum
of molecular abnormalities and its variable clinical course. As part of The Cancer Genome …

Comprehensive genomic analysis of malignant pleural mesothelioma identifies recurrent mutations, gene fusions and splicing alterations

R Bueno, EW Stawiski, LD Goldstein, S Durinck… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract We analyzed transcriptomes (n= 211), whole exomes (n= 99) and targeted exomes
(n= 103) from 216 malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) tumors. Using RNA-seq data, we …

Sequencing of prostate cancers identifies new cancer genes, routes of progression and drug targets

DC Wedge, G Gundem, T Mitchell, DJ Woodcock… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Prostate cancer represents a substantial clinical challenge because it is difficult to predict
outcome and advanced disease is often fatal. We sequenced the whole genomes of 112 …

The autophagy machinery controls cell death switching between apoptosis and necroptosis

ML Goodall, BE Fitzwalter, S Zahedi, M Wu… - Developmental cell, 2016 - cell.com
Although autophagy controls cell death and survival, underlying mechanisms are poorly
understood, and it is unknown whether autophagy affects only whether or not cells die or …

Loss of CHD1 promotes heterogeneous mechanisms of resistance to AR-targeted therapy via chromatin dysregulation

Z Zhang, C Zhou, X Li, SD Barnes, S Deng, E Hoover… - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Metastatic prostate cancer is characterized by recurrent genomic copy number alterations
that are presumed to contribute to resistance to hormone therapy. We identified CHD1 loss …

Synthetic essentiality of chromatin remodelling factor CHD1 in PTEN-deficient cancer

D Zhao, X Lu, G Wang, Z Lan, W Liao, J Li, X Liang… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Synthetic lethality and collateral lethality are two well-validated conceptual strategies for
identifying therapeutic targets in cancers with tumour-suppressor gene deletions,,. Here, we …

Drug discovery in advanced prostate cancer: translating biology into therapy

TA Yap, AD Smith, R Ferraldeschi… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2016 - nature.com
Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is associated with a poor prognosis and poses
considerable therapeutic challenges. Recent genetic and technological advances have …

Regulation of CEACAM5 and therapeutic efficacy of an anti-CEACAM5–SN38 antibody–drug conjugate in neuroendocrine prostate cancer

DC DeLucia, TM Cardillo, L Ang, MP Labrecque… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Purpose: Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is an aggressive form of castration-
resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) for which effective therapies are lacking. We previously …