Therapeutic targeting of “undruggable” MYC

V Llombart, MR Mansour - EBioMedicine, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary c-MYC controls global gene expression and regulates cell proliferation, cell
differentiation, cell cycle, metabolism and apoptosis. According to some estimates, MYC is …

Protein arginine methylation: from enigmatic functions to therapeutic targeting

Q Wu, M Schapira, CH Arrowsmith… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) are emerging as attractive therapeutic targets.
PRMTs regulate transcription, splicing, RNA biology, the DNA damage response and cell …

Roles and mechanisms of alternative splicing in cancer—implications for care

SC Bonnal, I López-Oreja, J Valcárcel - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Removal of introns from messenger RNA precursors (pre-mRNA splicing) is an essential
step for the expression of most eukaryotic genes. Alternative splicing enables the regulated …

The regulation, functions and clinical relevance of arginine methylation

E Guccione, S Richard - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Methylation of arginine residues by protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) is involved
in the regulation of fundamental cellular processes, including transcription, RNA processing …

[HTML][HTML] The role of alternative splicing in cancer: From oncogenesis to drug resistance

R Sciarrillo, A Wojtuszkiewicz, YG Assaraf… - Drug Resistance …, 2020 - Elsevier
Alternative splicing is a tightly regulated process whereby non-coding sequences of pre-
mRNA are removed and protein-coding segments are assembled in diverse combinations …

Alternative approaches to target Myc for cancer treatment

C Wang, J Zhang, J Yin, Y Gan, S Xu, Y Gu… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
The Myc proto-oncogene family consists of three members, C-MYC, MYCN, and MYCL,
which encodes the transcription factor c-Myc (hereafter Myc), N-Myc, and L-Myc …

Inhibition of YTHDF2 triggers proteotoxic cell death in MYC-driven breast cancer

JM Einstein, M Perelis, IA Chaim, JK Meena… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are critical regulators of post-transcriptional gene expression,
and aberrant RBP-RNA interactions can promote cancer progression. Here, we interrogate …

Target gene-independent functions of MYC oncoproteins

A Baluapuri, E Wolf, M Eilers - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020 - nature.com
Oncoproteins of the MYC family are major drivers of human tumorigenesis. Since a large
body of evidence indicates that MYC proteins are transcription factors, studying their function …

RNA mis-splicing in disease

MM Scotti, MS Swanson - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
The human transcriptome is composed of a vast RNA population that undergoes further
diversification by splicing. Detecting specific splice sites in this large sequence pool is the …

RNA splicing factors as oncoproteins and tumour suppressors

H Dvinge, E Kim, O Abdel-Wahab… - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
The recent genomic characterization of cancers has revealed recurrent somatic point
mutations and copy number changes affecting genes encoding RNA splicing factors. Initial …