Advancing therapy for neuroblastoma

B Qiu, KK Matthay - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Neuroblastomas are tumours of sympathetic origin, with a heterogeneous clinical course
ranging from localized or spontaneously regressing to widely metastatic disease …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in the developmental origin of neuroblastoma: an overview

M Ponzoni, T Bachetti, MV Corrias, C Brignole… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Neuroblastoma (NB) is a pediatric tumor that originates from neural crest-derived cells
undergoing a defective differentiation due to genomic and epigenetic impairments …

[HTML][HTML] RETRACTED ARTICLE: Cross-HLA targeting of intracellular oncoproteins with peptide-centric CARs

M Yarmarkovich, QF Marshall, JM Warrington… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The majority of oncogenic drivers are intracellular proteins, thus constraining their
immunotherapeutic targeting to mutated peptides (neoantigens) presented by individual …

[HTML][HTML] Histone deacetylases (HDACs): evolution, specificity, role in transcriptional complexes, and pharmacological actionability

G Milazzo, D Mercatelli, G Di Muzio, L Triboli… - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are evolutionary conserved enzymes which operate by
removing acetyl groups from histones and other protein regulatory factors, with functional …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancer hijacking determines extrachromosomal circular MYCN amplicon architecture in neuroblastoma

K Helmsauer, ME Valieva, S Ali… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
MYCN amplification drives one in six cases of neuroblastoma. The supernumerary gene
copies are commonly found on highly rearranged, extrachromosomal circular DNA (ecDNA) …

EP300 Selectively Controls the Enhancer Landscape of MYCN-Amplified Neuroblastoma

AD Durbin, T Wang, VK Wimalasena, MW Zimmerman… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Gene expression is regulated by promoters and enhancers marked by histone H3 lysine 27
acetylation (H3K27ac), which is established by the paralogous histone acetyltransferases …

A first-generation pediatric cancer dependency map

NV Dharia, G Kugener, LM Guenther, CF Malone… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Exciting therapeutic targets are emerging from CRISPR-based screens of high mutational-
burden adult cancers. A key question, however, is whether functional genomic approaches …

[HTML][HTML] MYCN mediates TFRC-dependent ferroptosis and reveals vulnerabilities in neuroblastoma

Y Lu, Q Yang, Y Su, Y Ji, G Li, X Yang, L Xu, Z Lu… - Cell death & …, 2021 - nature.com
MYCN amplification is tightly associated with the poor prognosis of pediatric neuroblastoma
(NB). The regulation of NB cell death by MYCN represents an important aspect, as it directly …

Mesenchymal and adrenergic cell lineage states in neuroblastoma possess distinct immunogenic phenotypes

S Sengupta, S Das, AC Crespo, AM Cornel, AG Patel… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Apart from the anti-GD2 antibody, immunotherapy for neuroblastoma has had limited
success due to immune evasion mechanisms, coupled with an incomplete understanding of …

Super enhancers define regulatory subtypes and cell identity in neuroblastoma

M Gartlgruber, AK Sharma, A Quintero, D Dreidax… - Nature Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Half of the children diagnosed with neuroblastoma (NB) have high-risk disease,
disproportionately contributing to overall childhood cancer-related deaths. In addition to …