Epigenetic alterations in the gastrointestinal tract: current and emerging use for biomarkers of cancer

WM Grady - Advances in cancer research, 2021 - Elsevier
Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide. One of the
hallmarks of cancer and a fundamental trait of virtually all gastrointestinal cancers is …

Chromatin accessibility profiling methods

L Minnoye, GK Marinov, T Krausgruber, L Pan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Chromatin accessibility, or the physical access to chromatinized DNA, is a widely studied
characteristic of the eukaryotic genome. As active regulatory DNA elements are generally …

Structural variants drive context-dependent oncogene activation in cancer

Z Xu, DS Lee, S Chandran, VT Le, R Bump, J Yasis… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Higher-order chromatin structure is important for the regulation of genes by distal regulatory
sequences,. Structural variants (SVs) that alter three-dimensional (3D) genome organization …

The AP-1 transcriptional complex: Local switch or remote command?

F Bejjani, E Evanno, K Zibara, M Piechaczyk… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2019 - Elsevier
The ubiquitous family of AP-1 dimeric transcription complexes is involved in virtually all
cellular and physiological functions. It is paramount for cells to reprogram gene expression …

Altered chromosomal topology drives oncogenic programs in SDH-deficient GISTs

WA Flavahan, Y Drier, SE Johnstone, ML Hemming… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Epigenetic aberrations are widespread in cancer, yet the underlying mechanisms and
causality remain poorly understood,–. A subset of gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) …

Human pancreatic islet three-dimensional chromatin architecture provides insights into the genetics of type 2 diabetes

I Miguel-Escalada, S Bonàs-Guarch, I Cebola… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Genetic studies promise to provide insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying type 2
diabetes (T2D). Variants associated with T2D are often located in tissue-specific enhancer …

Genome-wide profiling in colorectal cancer identifies PHF19 and TBC1D16 as oncogenic super enhancers

QL Li, X Lin, YL Yu, L Chen, QX Hu, M Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. Although genomic
mutations and single nucleotide polymorphisms have been extensively studied, the …

Enhancer signatures stratify and predict outcomes of non-functional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors

P Cejas, Y Drier, KMA Dreijerink, LAA Brosens… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Most pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) do not produce excess hormones and are
therefore considered 'non-functional',–. As clinical behaviors vary widely and distant …

Assessing sufficiency and necessity of enhancer activities for gene expression and the mechanisms of transcription activation

RR Catarino, A Stark - Genes & development, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Enhancers are important genomic regulatory elements directing cell type-specific
transcription. They assume a key role during development and disease, and their …

The multifaceted output of c-Jun biological activity: focus at the junction of CD8 T cell activation and exhaustion

AG Papavassiliou, AM Musti - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
c-Jun is a major component of the dimeric transcription factor activator protein-1 (AP-1), a
paradigm for transcriptional response to extracellular signaling, whose components are …