The oncogenic BRD4-NUT chromatin regulator drives aberrant transcription within large topological domains

AA Alekseyenko, EM Walsh, X Wang… - Genes & …, 2015 - genesdev.cshlp.org
… to identify the genomic loci with which BRD4-NUT associates and define its effects on
transcription. Strikingly, we discovered that the BRD4-NUT protein occupies ∼100–200 extremely …

[HTML][HTML] Structural mechanism of BRD4-NUT and p300 bipartite interaction in propagating aberrant gene transcription in chromatin in NUT carcinoma

D Yu, Y Liang, C Kim, A Jaganathan, D Ji… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
BRD4-NUT, a driver fusion mutant in rare and highly aggressive NUT carcinoma, acts in
aberrant transcription of … However, the molecular basis of how BRD4-NUT recruits and activates …

[HTML][HTML] Perturbation of BRD4 protein function by BRD4-NUT protein abrogates cellular differentiation in NUT midline carcinoma

J Yan, J Diaz, J Jiao, R Wang, J You - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2011 - ASBMB
BRD4-NUT recruits histone acetyltransferases to induce … of additional BRD4 and associated
P-TEFB (positive transcription … The aberrant expression of NUT upon fusion to the BRD4

Supercharging BRD4 with NUT in carcinoma

KP Eagen, CA French - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
… region the transcriptional activation domain 1 (TAD1) of NUT (Fig. … BRD4-NUT complex(s)
is essentially a super-active BRD4 complex, and raise the possibility that MDs may be aberrant

[HTML][HTML] Mechanistic analysis of the role of bromodomain-containing protein 4 (BRD4) in BRD4-NUT oncoprotein-induced transcriptional activation

R Wang, J You - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2015 - ASBMB
BRD4-NUT function remain poorly understood. In this study, we examined the NUT function
in transcriptional … The activated SOX2 expression, in turn, drives the aberrant stem cell-like …

Ectopic protein interactions within BRD4–chromatin complexes drive oncogenic megadomain formation in NUT midline carcinoma

AA Alekseyenko, EM Walsh, BM Zee… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
… Given the potency of aberrant chromatin regulation by BRD4NUT, and reasoning that …
strongly validate the known role for BRD4 as a transcriptional coactivator, and provide an …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in the pathogenesis and treatment of nut carcinoma: a narrative review

S Wang, J Li, W Tong, H Li, Q Feng… - Translational Cancer …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… In most cases, the main oncoprotein is BRD4-NUT with a translocation between NUTM1 and
BRD4 … the miRNAs that target BRD4 and NUT transcribed regions before and after BRD4-…

[HTML][HTML] The BRD4NUT fusion alone drives malignant transformation of NUT Carcinoma

RT Durall, J Huang, L Wojenski, Y Huang, PC Gokhale… - Cancer Research, 2023 - AACR
… To determine how the loss of BRD4-NUT function impacts transcriptional programs in mNC
cells, we evaluated the effects of BETi on the 311E mNC cell line by RNA-seq. Unsurprisingly…

NUT Carcinoma: Clinicopathologic features, pathogenesis, and treatment

CA French - Pathology international, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… directly targeting the BRD4 portion of BRD4-NUT, termed … , frequently containing only one
aberration, a clonal translocation … BRD4-NUT MDs drive transcription of underlying coding and …

Activation of SOX2 Expression by BRD4-NUT Oncogenic Fusion Drives Neoplastic Transformation in NUT Midline Carcinoma

R Wang, W Liu, CM Helfer, JE Bradner, JL Hornick… - Cancer research, 2014 - AACR
… that BRD4-NUT drives the abnormally high SOX2 expression in NMCs to promote the aberrant
… and enrichment of additional BRD4-NUT/BRD4, as well as other transcriptional factors, to …