Advancing therapy for neuroblastoma

B Qiu, KK Matthay - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Neuroblastomas are tumours of sympathetic origin, with a heterogeneous clinical course
ranging from localized or spontaneously regressing to widely metastatic disease …

Human topoisomerases and their roles in genome stability and organization

Y Pommier, A Nussenzweig, S Takeda… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Human topoisomerases comprise a family of six enzymes: two type IB (TOP1 and
mitochondrial TOP1 (TOP1MT), two type IIA (TOP2A and TOP2B) and two type IA (TOP3A …

MYC: a complex problem

SK Das, BA Lewis, D Levens - Trends in cell biology, 2023 - cell.com
The MYC protooncogene functions as a universal amplifier of transcription through
interaction with numerous factors and complexes that regulate almost every cellular process …

Target gene-independent functions of MYC oncoproteins

A Baluapuri, E Wolf, M Eilers - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020 - nature.com
Oncoproteins of the MYC family are major drivers of human tumorigenesis. Since a large
body of evidence indicates that MYC proteins are transcription factors, studying their function …

[HTML][HTML] Surface plasmon resonance technology: Recent advances, applications and experimental cases

D Capelli, V Scognamiglio, R Montanari - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the modern era of advanced technologies, rapid and accurate analyses are needed, both
for scientific research and for industrial applications. For this reason, the Surface Plasmon …

MYCN function in neuroblastoma development

J Otte, C Dyberg, A Pepich, JI Johnsen - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Dysregulated expression of the transcription factor MYCN is frequently detected in nervous
system tumors such as childhood neuroblastoma. Here, gene amplification of MYCN is a …

EZH2 depletion potentiates MYC degradation inhibiting neuroblastoma and small cell carcinoma tumor formation

L Wang, C Chen, Z Song, H Wang, M Ye… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Efforts to therapeutically target EZH2 have generally focused on inhibition of its
methyltransferase activity, although it remains less clear whether this is the central …

N-Myc–mediated epigenetic reprogramming drives lineage plasticity in advanced prostate cancer

A Berger, NJ Brady, R Bareja… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Despite recent therapeutic advances, prostate cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-
related death. A subset of castration-resistant prostate cancers become androgen receptor …

Combined inhibition of Aurora-A and ATR kinases results in regression of MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma

I Roeschert, E Poon, AG Henssen, H Dorado Garcia… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Amplification of MYCN is the driving oncogenic change in a subset of high-risk
neuroblastomas. The MYCN protein and the Aurora-A kinase form a complex during the S …

[HTML][HTML] MYC assembles and stimulates topoisomerases 1 and 2 in a “topoisome”

SK Das, V Kuzin, DP Cameron, S Sanford, RK Jha… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
High-intensity transcription and replication supercoil DNA to levels that can impede or halt
these processes. As a potent transcription amplifier and replication accelerator, the proto …