Targeting mRNA processing as an anticancer strategy

J Desterro, P Bak-Gordon… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Discoveries in the past decade have highlighted the potential of mRNA as a therapeutic
target for cancer. Specifically, RNA sequencing revealed that, in addition to gene mutations …

Altered RNA processing in cancer pathogenesis and therapy

EA Obeng, C Stewart, O Abdel-Wahab - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
Major advances in our understanding of cancer pathogenesis and therapy have come from
efforts to catalog genomic alterations in cancer. A growing number of large-scale genomic …

Full-length transcript characterization of SF3B1 mutation in chronic lymphocytic leukemia reveals downregulation of retained introns

AD Tang, CM Soulette, MJ van Baren, K Hart… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
While splicing changes caused by somatic mutations in SF3B1 are known, identifying full-
length isoform changes may better elucidate the functional consequences of these …

Clinical and molecular predictors of response and survival following venetoclax therapy in relapsed/refractory AML

M Stahl, K Menghrajani, A Derkach, A Chan… - Blood …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
Abstract Azacitidine+ venetoclax, decitabine+ venetoclax, and low-dose cytarabine+
venetoclax are now standard treatments for newly diagnosed older or unfit patients with …

VIP152 is a selective CDK9 inhibitor with pre-clinical in vitro and in vivo efficacy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

S Sher, E Whipp, J Walker, P Zhang, L Beaver… - Leukemia, 2023 - nature.com
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is effectively treated with targeted therapies including
Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitors and BCL2 antagonists. When these become ineffective …

Efficacy of venetoclax in high risk relapsed mantle cell lymphoma (MCL)‐outcomes and mutation profile from venetoclax resistant MCL patients

S Zhao, R Kanagal‐Shamanna… - American journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Venetoclax is effective in relapsed patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). Mechanisms
of resistance to venetoclax in MCL are poorly understood. We describe the clinical outcomes …

Circular RNAs and RNA splice variants as biomarkers for prognosis and therapeutic response in the liquid biopsies of lung cancer patients

F De Fraipont, S Gazzeri, WC Cho, B Eymin - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Lung cancer, including non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), is the most frequently
diagnosed cancer. It is also the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide …

Pre-mRNA splicing-associated diseases and therapies

SL Love, JD Emerson, K Koide, AA Hoskins - RNA biology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Precursor mRNA (pre-mRNA) splicing is an essential step in human gene expression and is
carried out by a large macromolecular machine called the spliceosome. Given the …

In Vivo Modeling of CLL Transformation to Richter Syndrome Reveals Convergent Evolutionary Paths and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities

E Ten Hacken, T Sewastianik, S Yin, GB Hoffmann… - Blood cancer …, 2023 - AACR
Transformation to aggressive disease histologies generates formidable clinical challenges
across cancers, but biological insights remain few. We modeled the genetic heterogeneity of …

Coding and noncoding drivers of mantle cell lymphoma identified through exome and genome sequencing

P Pararajalingam, KM Coyle, SE Arthur… - Blood, The Journal …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is an uncommon B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) that is
incurable with standard therapies. The genetic drivers of this cancer have not been firmly …