Integration of CRISPR/Cas9 with artificial intelligence for improved cancer therapeutics

AA Bhat, S Nisar, S Mukherjee, N Saha… - Journal of translational …, 2022 - Springer
Gene editing has great potential in treating diseases caused by well-characterized
molecular alterations. The introduction of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …

JASPAR 2022: the 9th release of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles

JA Castro-Mondragon, R Riudavets-Puig… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract JASPAR (http://jaspar. genereg. net/) is an open-access database containing
manually curated, non-redundant transcription factor (TF) binding profiles for TFs across six …

CARM1 arginine methyltransferase as a therapeutic target for cancer

M Santos, JW Hwang, MT Bedford - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2023 - ASBMB
Coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase 1 (CARM1) is an arginine
methyltransferase that posttranslationally modifies proteins that regulate multiple levels of …

[HTML][HTML] PKCα/ZFP64/CSF1 axis resets the tumor microenvironment and fuels anti-PD1 resistance in hepatocellular carcinoma

CY Wei, MX Zhu, PF Zhang, XY Huang, JK Wan… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Despite remarkable advances in treatment, most patients with
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) respond poorly to anti-programmed cell death 1 (anti-PD1) …

BRD8 maintains glioblastoma by epigenetic reprogramming of the p53 network

X Sun, O Klingbeil, B Lu, C Wu, C Ballon, M Ouyang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Inhibition of the tumour suppressive function of p53 (encoded by TP53) is paramount for
cancer development in humans. However, p53 remains unmutated in the majority of cases …

ETV6 dependency in Ewing sarcoma by antagonism of EWS-FLI1-mediated enhancer activation

Y Gao, XY He, XS Wu, YH Huang, S Toneyan, T Ha… - Nature cell …, 2023 - nature.com
The EWS-FLI1 fusion oncoprotein deregulates transcription to initiate the paediatric cancer
Ewing sarcoma. Here we used a domain-focused CRISPR screen to implicate the …

[HTML][HTML] ZMYND8-regulated IRF8 transcription axis is an acute myeloid leukemia dependency

Z Cao, KA Budinich, H Huang, D Ren, B Lu, Z Zhang… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
The transformed state in acute leukemia requires gene regulatory programs involving
transcription factors and chromatin modulators. Here, we uncover an IRF8-MEF2D …

ZNF410 uniquely activates the NuRD component CHD4 to silence fetal hemoglobin expression

X Lan, R Ren, R Feng, LC Ly, Y Lan, Z Zhang… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Metazoan transcription factors typically regulate large numbers of genes. Here we identify
via a CRISPR-Cas9 genetic screen ZNF410, a pentadactyl DNA-binding protein that in …

ZNF410 represses fetal globin by singular control of CHD4

DS Vinjamur, Q Yao, MA Cole, C McGuckin, C Ren… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Known fetal hemoglobin (HbF) silencers have potential on-target liabilities for rational β-
hemoglobinopathy therapeutic inhibition. Here, through transcription factor (TF) CRISPR …

TMBIM1 is an inhibitor of adipogenesis and its depletion promotes adipocyte hyperplasia and improves obesity-related metabolic disease

GN Zhao, ZW Tian, T Tian, ZP Zhu, WJ Zhao, H Tian… - Cell metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
Obesity is characterized by the excessive accumulation of the white adipose tissue (WAT),
but healthy expansion of WAT via adipocyte hyperplasia can offset the negative metabolic …