Hepatocellular carcinoma: old friends and new tricks

E Kim, P Viatour - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most prevalent primary liver cancer and a leading
cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Ninety percent of HCC cases arise from cirrhosis …

Clonal expansion in non-cancer tissues

N Kakiuchi, S Ogawa - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer is a clonal disorder derived from a single ancestor cell and its progenies that are
positively selected by acquisition of 'driver mutations'. However, the evolution of positively …

A targetable LIFR− NF-κB− LCN2 axis controls liver tumorigenesis and vulnerability to ferroptosis

F Yao, Y Deng, Y Zhao, Y Mei, Y Zhang, X Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The growing knowledge of ferroptosis has suggested the role and therapeutic potential of
ferroptosis in cancer, but has not been translated into effective therapy. Liver cancer …

YAP/TAZ functions and their regulation at a glance

A Pocaterra, P Romani, S Dupont - Journal of cell science, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT YAP and TAZ proteins are transcriptional coactivators encoded by paralogous
genes, which shuttle between the cytoplasm and the nucleus in response to multiple inputs …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-cancer analysis of post-translational modifications reveals shared patterns of protein regulation

Y Geffen, S Anand, Y Akiyama, TM Yaron, Y Song… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) play key roles in regulating cell signaling and
physiology in both normal and cancer cells. Advances in mass spectrometry enable high …

Chromatin remodellers as therapeutic targets

HA Malone, CWM Roberts - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
Large-scale cancer genome sequencing studies have revealed that chromatin regulators
are frequently mutated in cancer. In particular, more than 20% of cancers harbour mutations …

A CRISPR/Cas9-Engineered ARID1A-Deficient Human Gastric Cancer Organoid Model Reveals Essential and Nonessential Modes of Oncogenic Transformation

YH Lo, KS Kolahi, Y Du, CY Chang, A Krokhotin, A Nair… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Mutations in ARID1A rank among the most common molecular aberrations in human cancer.
However, oncogenic consequences of ARID1A mutation in human cells remain poorly …

ARID1A determines luminal identity and therapeutic response in estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer

G Xu, S Chhangawala, E Cocco, P Razavi, Y Cai… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Mutations in ARID1A, a subunit of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex, are the most
common alterations of the SWI/SNF complex in estrogen-receptor-positive (ER+) breast …

Smarca4 Inactivation Promotes Lineage-Specific Transformation and Early Metastatic Features in the Lung

CP Concepcion, S Ma, LM LaFave, A Bhutkar, M Liu… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
SMARCA4/BRG1 encodes for one of two mutually exclusive ATPases present in mammalian
SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes and is frequently mutated in human lung …

ARID1A orchestrates SWI/SNF-mediated sequential binding of transcription factors with ARID1A loss driving pre-memory B cell fate and lymphomagenesis

D Barisic, CR Chin, C Meydan, M Teater, I Tsialta… - Cancer cell, 2024 - cell.com
ARID1A, a subunit of the canonical BAF nucleosome remodeling complex, is commonly
mutated in lymphomas. We show that ARID1A orchestrates B cell fate during the germinal …