Biomolecular condensates and cancer

A Boija, IA Klein, RA Young - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Malignant transformation is characterized by dysregulation of diverse cellular processes that
have been the subject of detailed genetic, biochemical, and structural studies, but only …

Targeting transcription factors for cancer treatment

M Lambert, S Jambon, S Depauw… - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Transcription factors are involved in a large number of human diseases such as cancers for
which they account for about 20% of all oncogenes identified so far. For long time, with the …

MYC activation is a hallmark of cancer initiation and maintenance

M Gabay, Y Li, DW Felsher - Cold Spring …, 2014 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The MYC proto-oncogene has been implicated in the pathogenesis of most types of human
tumors. MYC activation alone in many normal cells is restrained from causing tumorigenesis …

[HTML][HTML] Genetics and molecular pathogenesis of gastric adenocarcinoma

P Tan, KG Yeoh - Gastroenterology, 2015 - Elsevier
Gastric cancer (GC) is globally the fifth most common cancer and third leading cause of
cancer death. A complex disease arising from the interaction of environmental and host …

Sp1 transcription factor: A long-standing target in cancer chemotherapy

C Vizcaíno, S Mansilla, J Portugal - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Sp1 (specificity protein 1) is a well-known member of a family of transcription factors
that also includes Sp2, Sp3 and Sp4, which are implicated in an ample variety of essential …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical probes and drug leads from advances in synthetic planning and methodology

CJ Gerry, SL Schreiber - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2018 - nature.com
Screening of small-molecule libraries is a productive method for identifying both chemical
probes of disease-related targets and potential starting points for drug discovery. In this …

Targeting transcription factors in cancer

AS Bhagwat, CR Vakoc - Trends in cancer, 2015 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) are commonly deregulated in the pathogenesis of human cancer
and are a major class of cancer cell dependencies. Consequently, targeting of TFs can be …

USP10 promotes proliferation of hepatocellular carcinoma by deubiquitinating and stabilizing YAP/TAZ

H Zhu, F Yan, T Yuan, M Qian, T Zhou, X Dai, J Cao… - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
Yes-associated protein (YAP) and its paralog, transcriptional coactivator with PDZ-binding
motif (TAZ), play pivotal roles in promoting the progression of hepatocellular carcinoma …

Glioblastoma stem-like cells: at the root of tumor recurrence and a therapeutic target

M Jackson, F Hassiotou, A Nowak - Carcinogenesis, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Glioblastoma is the most common and most aggressive primary brain malignancy. The
current initial standard of care consists of maximal safe surgical resection followed by radical …

The NFIB/CARM1 partnership is a driver in preclinical models of small cell lung cancer

G Gao, S Hausmann, NM Flores, AM Benitez… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The coactivator associated arginine methyltransferase (CARM1) promotes transcription, as
its name implies. It does so by modifying histones and chromatin bound proteins. We …