Pioneer of prostate cancer: past, present and the future of FOXA1

M Teng, S Zhou, C Cai, M Lupien, HH He - Protein & Cell, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed non-cutaneous cancers in North American
men. While androgen deprivation has remained as the cornerstone of prostate cancer …

The emerging role of KDM5A in human cancer

GJ Yang, MH Zhu, XJ Lu, YJ Liu, JF Lu… - Journal of hematology & …, 2021 - Springer
Histone methylation is a key posttranslational modification of chromatin, and its
dysregulation affects a wide array of nuclear activities including the maintenance of genome …

[HTML][HTML] Loss of SYNCRIP unleashes APOBEC-driven mutagenesis, tumor heterogeneity, and AR-targeted therapy resistance in prostate cancer

X Li, Y Wang, S Deng, G Zhu, C Wang, NA Johnson… - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
Tumor mutational burden and heterogeneity has been suggested to fuel resistance to many
targeted therapies. The cytosine deaminase APOBEC proteins have been implicated in the …

Reprogramming of the FOXA1 cistrome in treatment-emergent neuroendocrine prostate cancer

SC Baca, DY Takeda, JH Seo, J Hwang, SY Ku… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Lineage plasticity, the ability of a cell to alter its identity, is an increasingly common
mechanism of adaptive resistance to targeted therapy in cancer. An archetypal example is …

SETD7 functions as a transcription repressor in prostate cancer via methylating FOXA1

Z Wang, J Petricca, M Liu, S Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Dysregulation of histone lysine methyltransferases and demethylases is one of the major
mechanisms driving the epigenetic reprogramming of transcriptional networks in castration …

Sequence logic at enhancers governs a dual mechanism of endodermal organ fate induction by FOXA pioneer factors

RJ Geusz, A Wang, DK Lam, NK Vinckier… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
FOXA pioneer transcription factors (TFs) associate with primed enhancers in endodermal
organ precursors. Using a human stem cell model of pancreas differentiation, we here …

FOXA1 O-GlcNAcylation–mediated transcriptional switch governs metastasis capacity in breast cancer

Y Liu, K Yu, X Kong, K Zhang, L Wang, N Zhang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
FOXA1, a transcription factor involved in epigenetic reprogramming, is crucial for breast
cancer progression. However, the mechanisms by which FOXA1 achieves its oncogenic …

LSD1/PRMT6-targeting gene therapy to attenuate androgen receptor toxic gain-of-function ameliorates spinobulbar muscular atrophy phenotypes in flies and mice

R Prakasam, A Bonadiman, R Andreotti… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Spinobulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is caused by CAG expansions in the androgen
receptor gene. Androgen binding to polyQ-expanded androgen receptor triggers SBMA …

The myc family and the metastasis suppressor NDRG1: targeting key molecular interactions with innovative therapeutics

Z Deng, DR Richardson, P Insel - Pharmacological Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, resulting in∼ 10 million deaths in 2020.
Major oncogenic effectors are the Myc proto-oncogene family, which consists of three …

FOXA2 rewires AP-1 for transcriptional reprogramming and lineage plasticity in prostate cancer

Z Wang, SL Townley, S Zhang, M Liu, M Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
FOXA family proteins act as pioneer factors by remodeling compact chromatin structures.
FOXA1 is crucial for the chromatin binding of the androgen receptor (AR) in both normal …