Histone lysine methyltransferases in biology and disease

D Husmann, O Gozani - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2019 - nature.com
The precise temporal and spatial coordination of histone lysine methylation dynamics across
the epigenome regulates virtually all DNA-templated processes. A large number of histone …

Tissue-specific tumorigenesis: context matters

G Schneider, M Schmidt-Supprian, R Rad… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
How can we treat cancer more effectively? Traditionally, tumours from the same anatomical
site are treated as one tumour entity. This concept has been challenged by recent …

Enhancer Hijacking Drives Oncogenic BCL11B Expression in Lineage-Ambiguous Stem Cell Leukemia

LE Montefiori, S Bendig, Z Gu, X Chen, P Pölönen… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Lineage-ambiguous leukemias are high-risk malignancies of poorly understood genetic
basis. Here, we describe a distinct subgroup of acute leukemia with expression of myeloid, T …

Multiple cells-of-origin of mutant K-Ras–induced mouse lung adenocarcinoma

KD Sutherland, JY Song, MC Kwon… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Much controversy surrounds the cell-of-origin of mutant K-Ras (K-RasG12D)–induced lung
adenocarcinoma. To shed light on this issue, we have used technology that enables us to …

High-throughput sequencing detects minimal residual disease in acute T lymphoblastic leukemia

D Wu, A Sherwood, JR Fromm, SS Winter… - Science translational …, 2012 - science.org
High-throughput sequencing (HTS) of lymphoid receptor genes is an emerging technology
that can comprehensively assess the diversity of the immune system. Here, we applied HTS …

[HTML][HTML] SETD2: an epigenetic modifier with tumor suppressor functionality

J Li, G Duns, H Westers, R Sijmons, A van den Berg… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In the past decade important progress has been made in our understanding of the
epigenetic regulatory machinery. It has become clear that genetic aberrations in multiple …

Pediatric T‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

K Karrman, B Johansson - Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The most common pediatric malignancy is acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), of which T‐
cell ALL (T‐ALL) comprises 10–15% of cases. T‐ALL arises in the thymus from an immature …

In vivo functional screening for systems-level integrative cancer genomics

J Weber, CJ Braun, D Saur, R Rad - Nature reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
With the genetic portraits of all major human malignancies now available, we next face the
challenge of characterizing the function of mutated genes, their downstream targets …

Sentinels of chromatin: chromodomain helicase DNA-binding proteins in development and disease

A Alendar, A Berns - Genes & Development, 2021 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Chromatin is highly dynamic, undergoing continuous global changes in its structure and
type of histone and DNA modifications governed by processes such as transcription, repair …

[HTML][HTML] Mouse models for lung cancer

M Kwon, A Berns - Molecular oncology, 2013 - Elsevier
Lung cancer is a devastating disease and a major therapeutic burden with poor survival
rates. It is responsible for 30% of all cancer deaths. Lung cancer is strongly associated with …