Achieving clinical success with BET inhibitors as anti-cancer agents

T Shorstova, WD Foulkes, M Witcher - British journal of cancer, 2021 - nature.com
The transcriptional upregulation of oncogenes is a driving force behind the progression of
many tumours. However, until a decade ago, the concept of 'switching off'these oncogenic …

Synthetic lethality as an engine for cancer drug target discovery

A Huang, LA Garraway, A Ashworth… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
The first wave of genetically targeted therapies for cancer focused on drugging gene
products that are recurrently mutated in specific cancer types. However, mutational analysis …

Analyses of non-coding somatic drivers in 2,658 cancer whole genomes

E Rheinbay, MM Nielsen, F Abascal, JA Wala… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The discovery of drivers of cancer has traditionally focused on protein-coding genes,,–. Here
we present analyses of driver point mutations and structural variants in non-coding regions …

PROTAC'ing oncoproteins: targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy

JM Kelm, DS Pandey, E Malin, H Kansou, S Arora… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Molecularly targeted cancer therapies substantially improve patient outcomes, although the
durability of their effectiveness can be limited. Resistance to these therapies is often related …

Ovarian cancer

UA Matulonis, AK Sood, L Fallowfield… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2016 - nature.com
Ovarian cancer is not a single disease and can be subdivided into at least five different
histological subtypes that have different identifiable risk factors, cells of origin, molecular …

BET proteins as targets for anticancer treatment

A Stathis, F Bertoni - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
Bromodomain and extraterminal domain (BET) proteins are epigenetic readers that regulate
gene expression and are involved in cancer pathogenesis. Over the last years, several BET …

Rethinking ovarian cancer II: reducing mortality from high-grade serous ovarian cancer

DD Bowtell, S Böhm, AA Ahmed, PJ Aspuria… - Nature reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) accounts for 70–80% of ovarian cancer deaths,
and overall survival has not changed significantly for several decades. In this Opinion article …

Hijacking the E3 ubiquitin ligase cereblon to efficiently target BRD4

J Lu, Y Qian, M Altieri, H Dong, J Wang, K Raina… - Chemistry & biology, 2015 - cell.com
BRD4, a bromodomain and extraterminal domain (BET) family member, is an attractive
target in multiple pathological settings, particularly cancer. While BRD4 inhibitors have …

Selective small molecule induced degradation of the BET bromodomain protein BRD4

M Zengerle, KH Chan, A Ciulli - ACS chemical biology, 2015 - ACS Publications
The Bromo-and Extra-Terminal (BET) proteins BRD2, BRD3, and BRD4 play important roles
in transcriptional regulation, epigenetics, and cancer and are the targets of pan-BET …

Driving E3 ligase substrate specificity for targeted protein degradation: lessons from nature and the laboratory

AD Cowan, A Ciulli - Annual review of biochemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Methods to direct the degradation of protein targets with proximity-inducing molecules that
coopt the cellular degradation machinery are advancing in leaps and bounds, and diverse …