Targeting transcription factors in cancer—from undruggable to reality

JH Bushweller - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Mutated or dysregulated transcription factors represent a unique class of drug targets that
mediate aberrant gene expression, including blockade of differentiation and cell death gene …

SWI/SNF complexes in hematological malignancies: biological implications and therapeutic opportunities

A Andrades, P Peinado, JC Alvarez-Perez… - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Hematological malignancies are a highly heterogeneous group of diseases with varied
molecular and phenotypical characteristics. SWI/SNF (SWItch/Sucrose Non-Fermentable) …

Reducing the inherent auto-inhibitory interaction within the pegRNA enhances prime editing efficiency

K Ponnienselvan, P Liu, T Nyalile… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Prime editing systems have enabled the incorporation of precise edits within a genome
without introducing double strand breaks. Previous studies defined an optimal primer …

Discovery of highly potent, selective, and orally efficacious p300/CBP histone acetyltransferases inhibitors

Y Yang, R Zhang, Z Li, L Mei, S Wan… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
p300 and CREB-binding protein (CBP) are ubiquitously expressed pleiotropic lysine
acetyltransferases and play a key role as transcriptional co-activators that are essential for a …

The MYC enhancer-ome: long-range transcriptional regulation of MYC in cancer

O Lancho, D Herranz - Trends in cancer, 2018 - cell.com
MYC is one of the most important oncogenes in cancer. Indeed, MYC is upregulated in 50–
60% of all tumors. MYC overexpression can be achieved through a variety of mechanisms …

Interplay between cofactors and transcription factors in hematopoiesis and hematological malignancies

Z Wang, P Wang, Y Li, H Peng, Y Zhu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Hematopoiesis requires finely tuned regulation of gene expression at each stage of
development. The regulation of gene transcription involves not only individual transcription …

Targeting miR-126 in inv (16) acute myeloid leukemia inhibits leukemia development and leukemia stem cell maintenance

L Zhang, LXT Nguyen, YC Chen, D Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) harboring inv (16)(p13q22) expresses high levels of miR-
126. Here we show that the CBFB-MYH11 (CM) fusion gene upregulates miR-126 …

Core transcription regulatory circuitry orchestrates corneal epithelial homeostasis

M Li, H Huang, L Li, C He, L Zhu, H Guo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Adult stem cell identity, plasticity, and homeostasis are precisely orchestrated by lineage-
restricted epigenetic and transcriptional regulatory networks. Here, by integrating super …

Mechanisms of myeloid leukemogenesis: Current perspectives and therapeutic objectives

IM Bouligny, KR Maher, S Grant - Blood reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous hematopoietic neoplasm which results in
clonal proliferation of abnormally differentiated hematopoietic cells. In this review …

NOXA expression drives synthetic lethality to RUNX1 inhibition in pancreatic cancer

J Doffo, SA Bamopoulos, H Köse… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Evasion from drug-induced apoptosis is a crucial mechanism of cancer treatment resistance.
The proapoptotic protein NOXA marks an aggressive pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma …