Neuroblastoma: When differentiation goes awry

M Zeineldin, AG Patel, MA Dyer - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Neuroblastoma is a leading cause of cancer-related death in children. Accumulated data
suggest that differentiation arrest of the neural-crest-derived sympathoadrenal lineage …

Neuroblastoma heterogeneity, plasticity, and emerging therapies

KI Lundberg, D Treis, JI Johnsen - Current Oncology Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The evolving information of the initiation, tumor cell
heterogeneity, and plasticity of childhood neuroblastoma has opened up new perspectives …

[HTML][HTML] Palbociclib releases the latent differentiation capacity of neuroblastoma cells

KM Ferguson, SL Gillen, L Chaytor, E Poon… - Developmental Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor in infants, arising from
developmentally stalled neural crest-derived cells. Driving tumor differentiation is a …

Pediatric adrenocortical carcinoma

M Ilanchezhian, DG Varghese, JW Glod… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare endocrine malignancy of the adrenal gland with
an unfavorable prognosis. It is rare in the pediatric population, with an incidence of 0.2-0.3 …

Reactivation of the G1 enhancer landscape underlies core circuitry addiction to SWI/SNF

K Cermakova, L Tao, M Dejmek, M Sala… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Several cancer core regulatory circuitries (CRCs) depend on the sustained generation of
DNA accessibility by SWI/SNF chromatin remodelers. However, the window when SWI/SNF …

Molecular Mechanisms of MYCN Dysregulation in Cancers

R Liu, P Shi, Z Wang, C Yuan, H Cui - Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
MYCN, a member of MYC proto-oncogene family, encodes a basic helix-loop-helix
transcription factor N-MYC. Abnormal expression of N-MYC is correlated with high-risk …

Typical enhancers, super-enhancers, and cancers

MA Koutsi, M Pouliou, L Champezou, G Vatsellas… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The cancer genome has been exhaustively studied upon the advent of
Next-Generation Sequencing technologies. Coding and non-coding sequences have been …

CRISPR/Cas9-based genome-wide screening of the deubiquitinase subfamily identifies USP3 as a protein stabilizer of REST blocking neuronal differentiation and …

JK Karapurkar, MS Kim, JC Colaco, B Suresh… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - Springer
Background The repressor element-1 silencing transcription factor (REST), a master
transcriptional repressor, is essential for maintenance, self-renewal, and differentiation in …

Developmental origins shape the paediatric cancer genome

X Chen, W Yang, CWM Roberts, J Zhang - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
In the past two decades, technological advances have brought unprecedented insights into
the paediatric cancer genome revealing characteristics distinct from those of adult cancer …

Super-enhancer associated core regulatory circuits mediate susceptibility to retinoic acid in neuroblastoma cells

RL Gomez, LM Woods, R Ramachandran… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Neuroblastoma is a pediatric tumour that accounts for more than 15% of cancer-related
deaths in children. High-risk tumours are often difficult to treat, and patients' survival chances …