The IL-8/IL-8R axis: a double agent in tumor immune resistance

JM David, C Dominguez, DH Hamilton, C Palena - Vaccines, 2016 - mdpi.com
Interleukin-8 (IL-8, CXCL8) is a pro-inflammatory chemokine produced by various cell types
to recruit leukocytes to sites of infection or tissue injury. Acquisition of IL-8 and/or its …

Genetics of congenital heart disease: the glass half empty

AC Fahed, BD Gelb, JG Seidman… - Circulation research, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common congenital anomaly in newborn
babies. Cardiac malformations have been produced in multiple experimental animal …

Polycomb complexes repress developmental regulators in murine embryonic stem cells

LA Boyer, K Plath, J Zeitlinger, T Brambrink… - nature, 2006 - nature.com
The mechanisms by which embryonic stem (ES) cells self-renew while maintaining the
ability to differentiate into virtually all adult cell types are not well understood. Polycomb …

Systematic gene tagging using CRISPR/Cas9 in human stem cells to illuminate cell organization

B Roberts, A Haupt, A Tucker… - Molecular biology of …, 2017 - Am Soc Cell Biol
We present a CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing strategy to systematically tag endogenous
proteins with fluorescent tags in human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC). To date, we …

Control of developmental regulators by Polycomb in human embryonic stem cells

TI Lee, RG Jenner, LA Boyer, MG Guenther, SS Levine… - Cell, 2006 - cell.com
Polycomb group proteins are essential for early development in metazoans, but their
contributions to human development are not well understood. We have mapped the …

The T-box gene family: emerging roles in development, stem cells and cancer

VE Papaioannou - Development, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
The T-box family of transcription factors exhibits widespread involvement throughout
development in all metazoans. T-box proteins are characterized by a DNA-binding motif …

Polycomb silencers control cell fate, development and cancer

A Sparmann, M Van Lohuizen - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2006 - nature.com
Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are epigenetic gene silencers that are implicated in
neoplastic development. Their oncogenic function might be associated with their well …

Embryonic heart progenitors and cardiogenesis

T Brade, LS Pane, A Moretti… - Cold Spring …, 2013 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The mammalian heart is a highly specialized organ, comprised of many different cell types
arising from distinct embryonic progenitor populations during cardiogenesis. Three …

Brachyury, a crucial regulator of notochordal development, is a novel biomarker for chordomas

S Vujovic, S Henderson, N Presneau… - The Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Chordomas are malignant tumours that occur along the spine and are thought to derive from
notochordal remnants. There is significant morphological variability between and within …

Small-molecule targeting of brachyury transcription factor addiction in chordoma

T Sharifnia, MJ Wawer, T Chen, QY Huang, BA Weir… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Chordoma is a primary bone cancer with no approved therapy. The identification of
therapeutic targets in this disease has been challenging due to the infrequent occurrence of …