Neuroblastoma: When differentiation goes awry

M Zeineldin, AG Patel, MA Dyer - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Neuroblastoma is a leading cause of cancer-related death in children. Accumulated data
suggest that differentiation arrest of the neural-crest-derived sympathoadrenal lineage …

Molecular events in neuroendocrine prostate cancer development

Y Wang, Y Wang, X Ci, SYC Choi, F Crea, D Lin… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is a lethal subtype of prostate cancer. NEPC arises
de novo only rarely; the disease predominantly develops from adenocarcinoma in response …

[HTML][HTML] Mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes promote tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance in EGFR-mutant lung cancer

FJ de Miguel, C Gentile, WW Feng, SJ Silva, A Sankar… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Acquired resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI), such as osimertinib used to treat
EGFR-mutant lung adenocarcinomas, limits long-term efficacy and is frequently caused by …

Selective gene dependencies in MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma include the core transcriptional regulatory circuitry

AD Durbin, MW Zimmerman, NV Dharia, BJ Abraham… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Childhood high-risk neuroblastomas with MYCN gene amplification are difficult to treat
effectively. This has focused attention on tumor-specific gene dependencies that underlie …

[HTML][HTML] Arid1a has context-dependent oncogenic and tumor suppressor functions in liver cancer

X Sun, SC Wang, Y Wei, X Luo, Y Jia, L Li, P Gopal… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Summary ARID1A, an SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling gene, is commonly mutated in cancer
and hypothesized to be tumor suppressive. In some hepatocellular carcinoma patients …

PRMT1-mediated H4R3me2a recruits SMARCA4 to promote colorectal cancer progression by enhancing EGFR signaling

B Yao, T Gui, X Zeng, Y Deng, Z Wang, Y Wang… - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Aberrant changes in epigenetic mechanisms such as histone modifications play
an important role in cancer progression. PRMT1 which triggers asymmetric dimethylation of …

A pan-cancer analysis of SMARCA4 alterations in human cancers

L Peng, J Li, J Wu, B Xu, Z Wang, G Giamas… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background SMARCA4, the essential ATPase subunit of SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling
complex, regulates transcription through the control of chromatin structure and is …

Mammalian SWI/SNF complexes in cancer: emerging therapeutic opportunities

RS Pierre, C Kadoch - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2017 - Elsevier
Mammalian SWI/SNF (BAF) chromatin remodeling complexes orchestrate a diverse set of
chromatin alterations which impact transcriptional output. Recent whole-exome sequencing …

Role of specialized composition of SWI/SNF complexes in prostate cancer lineage plasticity

J Cyrta, A Augspach, MR De Filippo, D Prandi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Advanced prostate cancer initially responds to hormonal treatment, but ultimately becomes
resistant and requires more potent therapies. One mechanism of resistance observed in …

Mammalian SWI/SNF complex activity regulates POU2F3 and constitutes a targetable dependency in small cell lung cancer

L Duplaquet, K So, AW Ying, SP Choudhuri, X Li… - Cancer Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Small cell lung cancers (SCLCs) are composed of heterogeneous subtypes marked by
lineage-specific transcription factors, including ASCL1, NEUROD1, and POU2F3. POU2F3 …