Promoter DNA hypermethylation and paradoxical gene activation

J Smith, S Sen, RJ Weeks, MR Eccles, A Chatterjee - Trends in cancer, 2020 - cell.com
DNA methylation is a stable epigenetic modification that contributes to the spatiotemporal
regulation of gene expression. The manner in which DNA methylation contributes to …

Biology of cancer-testis antigens and their therapeutic implications in cancer

DS Nin, LW Deng - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Tumour-specific antigens have been an area of interest in cancer therapy since their
discovery in the middle of the 20th century. In the era of immune-based cancer therapeutics …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive immunologic portrait of triple-negative breast cancer

Z Liu, M Li, Z Jiang, X Wang - Translational oncology, 2018 - Elsevier
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a high-risk malignancy due to its high capacity for
invasion and lack of targeted therapy. Immunotherapy continues to demonstrate efficacy in a …

Cancer/testis antigens: expression, regulation, tumor invasion, and use in immunotherapy of cancers

A Salmaninejad, MR Zamani… - Immunological …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Cancer/testis antigens (CTAs) are named based on their expression pattern that is restricted
in a number of normal and abnormal tissues. Tumor cells frequently express antigens whose …

Cause and consequence of cancer/testis antigen activation in cancer

AW Whitehurst - Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Tumor cells frequently exhibit widespread epigenetic aberrations that significantly alter the
repertoire of expressed proteins. In particular, it has been known for nearly 25 years that …

Clinical epigenetics of lung cancer

SM Langevin, KT Kelsey - Translating Epigenetics to the Clinic, 2017 - Elsevier
In 2015, lung cancer accounted for an estimated 221,200 new cancer diagnoses and
158,040 deaths in the United States, with the majority being attributable to cigarette …

[HTML][HTML] Immunogenomics analysis reveals that TP53 mutations inhibit tumor immunity in gastric cancer

Z Jiang, Z Liu, M Li, C Chen, X Wang - Translational oncology, 2018 - Elsevier
Although immunotherapy continues to demonstrate efficacy in a variety of refractory cancers,
currently, no any immunotherapeutic strategy is clinically used for gastric cancer (GC) except …

Does CTCF mediate between nuclear organization and gene expression?

R Ohlsson, V Lobanenkov, E Klenova - Bioessays, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The multifunctional zinc‐finger protein CCCTC‐binding factor (CTCF) is a very strong
candidate for the role of coordinating the expression level of coding sequences with their …

TP53 Mutations Promote Immunogenic Activity in Breast Cancer

Z Liu, Z Jiang, Y Gao, L Wang, C Chen… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Although immunotherapy has recently achieved clinical successes in a variety
of cancers, thus far there is no immunotherapeutic strategy for breast cancer (BC). Thus, it is …

Regulation of cancer germline antigen gene expression: implications for cancer immunotherapy

SN Akers, K Odunsi, AR Karpf - Future oncology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Cancer germline (CG; also known as cancer-testis) antigen genes are normally expressed
in germ cells and trophoblast tissues and are aberrantly expressed in a variety of human …