Analysis of genomic sequence motifs for deciphering transcription factor binding and transcriptional regulation in eukaryotic cells

V Boeva - Frontiers in genetics, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Eukaryotic genomes contain a variety of structured patterns: repetitive elements, binding
sites of DNA and RNA associated proteins, splice sites, and so on. Often, these structured …

[HTML][HTML] METTL3 inhibits antitumor immunity by targeting m6A-BHLHE41-CXCL1/CXCR2 axis to promote colorectal cancer

H Chen, Y Pan, Q Zhou, C Liang, CC Wong, Y Zhou… - Gastroenterology, 2022 - Elsevier
Background & Aims N 6-Methyladenosine (m 6 A) is the most prevalent RNA modification
and recognized as an important epitranscriptomic mechanism in colorectal cancer (CRC) …

[HTML][HTML] A genome-scale gain-of-function CRISPR screen in CD8 T cells identifies proline metabolism as a means to enhance CAR-T therapy

L Ye, JJ Park, L Peng, Q Yang, RD Chow, MB Dong… - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell-based immunotherapy for cancer and
immunological diseases has made great strides, but it still faces multiple hurdles. Finding …

A new link between diabetes and cancer: enhanced WNT/β-catenin signaling by high glucose

C García-Jiménez, JM García-Martínez… - Journal of …, 2014 - jme.bioscientifica.com
Extensive epidemiological studies suggest that the diabetic population is at higher risk of
site-specific cancers. The diabetes–cancer link has been hypothesized to rely on various …

Systematic immunotherapy target discovery using genome-scale in vivo CRISPR screens in CD8 T cells

MB Dong, G Wang, RD Chow, L Ye, L Zhu, X Dai… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
CD8 T cells play essential roles in anti-tumor immune responses. Here, we performed
genome-scale CRISPR screens in CD8 T cells directly under cancer immunotherapy …

[HTML][HTML] TGF-β tumor suppression through a lethal EMT

CJ David, YH Huang, M Chen, J Su, Y Zou, N Bardeesy… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
TGF-β signaling can be pro-tumorigenic or tumor suppressive. We investigated this duality in
pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA), which, with other gastrointestinal cancers …

iRegulon: from a gene list to a gene regulatory network using large motif and track collections

R Janky, A Verfaillie, H Imrichová… - PLoS computational …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Identifying master regulators of biological processes and mapping their downstream gene
networks are key challenges in systems biology. We developed a computational method …

NaCl enhances CD8+ T cell effector functions in cancer immunotherapy

C Scirgolea, R Sottile, M De Luca, A Susana… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells control tumors but inevitably become dysfunctional in the tumor
microenvironment. Here, we show that sodium chloride (NaCl) counteracts T cell dysfunction …

Latent enhancers activated by stimulation in differentiated cells

R Ostuni, V Piccolo, I Barozzi, S Polletti, A Termanini… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
According to current models, once the cell has reached terminal differentiation, the enhancer
repertoire is completely established and maintained by cooperatively acting lineage-specific …

Dietary palmitic acid promotes a prometastatic memory via Schwann cells

G Pascual, D Domínguez, M Elosúa-Bayes… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Fatty acid uptake and altered metabolism constitute hallmarks of metastasis,, yet evidence of
the underlying biology, as well as whether all dietary fatty acids are prometastatic, is lacking …