Long-range gene regulation in hormone-dependent cancer

TT Tettey, L Rinaldi, GL Hager - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
The human genome is organized into multiple structural layers, ranging from chromosome
territories to progressively smaller substructures, such as topologically associating domains …

A guide to changing paradigms of glucocorticoid receptor function—a model system for genome regulation and physiology

S Vettorazzi, D Nalbantoglu, JCM Gebhardt… - The FEBS …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a bona fide ligand‐regulated transcription factor. Cloned
in the 80s, the GR has become one of the best‐studied and clinically most relevant members …

scAI: an unsupervised approach for the integrative analysis of parallel single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic profiles

S Jin, L Zhang, Q Nie - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Simultaneous measurements of transcriptomic and epigenomic profiles in the same
individual cells provide an unprecedented opportunity to understand cell fates. However …

Glucocorticoid receptor triggers a reversible drug-tolerant dormancy state with acquired therapeutic vulnerabilities in lung cancer

S Prekovic, K Schuurman, I Mayayo-Peralta… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) regulates gene expression, governing aspects of
homeostasis, but is also involved in cancer. Pharmacological GR activation is frequently …

Pre-established chromatin interactions mediate the genomic response to glucocorticoids

AM D'Ippolito, IC McDowell, A Barrera, LK Hong… - Cell systems, 2018 - cell.com
The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a hormone-inducible transcription factor involved in
metabolic and anti-inflammatory gene expression responses. To investigate what controls …

Genome-wide binding potential and regulatory activity of the glucocorticoid receptor's monomeric and dimeric forms

TA Johnson, V Paakinaho, S Kim, GL Hager… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
A widely regarded model for glucocorticoid receptor (GR) action postulates that dimeric
binding to DNA regulates unfavorable metabolic pathways while monomeric receptor …

MYC activity at enhancers drives prognostic transcriptional programs through an epigenetic switch

ST Jakobsen, RAM Jensen, MS Madsen… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
The transcription factor MYC is overexpressed in most cancers, where it drives multiple
hallmarks of cancer progression. MYC is known to promote oncogenic transcription by …

Epigenetic mechanisms of the glucocorticoid receptor

AA Bartlett, HE Lapp, RG Hunter - Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) has been shown to be important for mediating cellular
responses to stress and circulating glucocorticoids. Ligand-dependent transcriptional …

Coordinated glucocorticoid receptor and MAFB action induces tolerogenesis and epigenome remodeling in dendritic cells

O Morante-Palacios, L Ciudad, R Micheroli… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Glucocorticoids (GCs) exert potent anti-inflammatory effects in immune cells through the
glucocorticoid receptor (GR). Dendritic cells (DCs), central actors for coordinating immune …

Duality of glucocorticoid action in cancer: tumor-suppressor or oncogene?

I Mayayo-Peralta, W Zwart… - Endocrine-related …, 2021 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a key homeostatic regulator involved in governing immune
response, neuro-integration, metabolism and lung function. In conjunction with its pivotal …