MYC in liver cancer: mechanisms and targeted therapy opportunities

F Liu, Z Liao, Z Zhang - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
MYC, a major oncogenic transcription factor, regulates target genes involved in various
pathways such as cell proliferation, metabolism and immune evasion, playing a critical role …

Nuclear receptors in cancer—uncovering new and evolving roles through genomic analysis

VK Dhiman, MJ Bolt, KP White - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Nuclear receptors (NRs) have historically been at the forefront of cancer research, where
they are known to act as critical regulators of disease. They also serve as biomarkers for …

Ncoa2 Promotes CD8+ T cell–Mediated Antitumor Immunity by Stimulating T-cell Activation via Upregulation of PGC-1α Critical for Mitochondrial Function

X Zhong, H Wu, C Ouyang, W Zhang, Y Shi… - Cancer immunology …, 2023 - AACR
Abstract Nuclear receptor coactivator 2 (Ncoa2) is a member of the Ncoa family of
coactivators, and we previously showed that Ncoa2 regulates the differentiation of induced …

SRC2 controls CD4+ T cell activation via stimulating c-Myc-mediated upregulation of amino acid transporter Slc7a5

W Zhang, X Cao, X Zhong, H Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
T cell activation stimulates substantially increased protein synthesis activity to accumulate
sufficient biomass for cell proliferation. The protein synthesis is fueled by the amino acids …

Steroid nuclear receptor coactivator 2 controls immune tolerance by promoting induced Treg differentiation via up-regulating Nr4a2

W Zhang, X Cao, X Zhong, H Wu, M Feng, Y Gwack… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Steroid nuclear receptor coactivator 2 (SRC2) is a member of a family of transcription
coactivators. While SRC1 inhibits the differentiation of regulatory T cells (Tregs) critical for …

The prognostic value and clinical significance of mitophagy-related genes in hepatocellular carcinoma

W Xu, D Zhao, X Huang, M Zhang, M Yin, L Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background: Mitophagy has been found to play a significant part in the cancer process in a
growing number of studies in recent years. However, there is still a lack of study on …

Tai/NCOA2 suppresses the Hedgehog pathway by directly targeting the transcription factor Ci/GLI

X Yu, X Wang, K Ma, D Gao, Y Deng, D Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
The Hedgehog (Hh) pathway plays diverse roles in cellular processes by activating the
transcription factor Cubitus interruptus (Ci). Abnormal regulation of this pathway has been …

A literature review on function and regulation mechanism of DKK4

X Lou, Y Meng, Y Hou - Journal of cellular and molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Dickkopf‐related protein 4 (DKK4) is a member of the dickkopf family and an
inhibitor of the Wnt/β‐catenin signalling pathway. This review surveyed the single nucleotide …

Characterization of soft amyloid cores in human prion-like proteins

C Batlle, NS De Groot, V Iglesias, S Navarro… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Prion-like behaviour is attracting much attention due to the growing evidences that amyloid-
like self-assembly may reach beyond neurodegeneration and be a conserved functional …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in functional genetic screening with transposons and CRISPR/Cas9 to illuminate cancer biology

KA O'Donnell - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2018 - Elsevier
Large-scale genome sequencing studies have identified a wealth of mutations in human
tumors and have dramatically advanced the field of cancer genetics. However, the functional …