Spotlight on New Therapeutic Opportunities for MYC-Driven Cancers

A D'Avola, K Kluckova, AJ Finch… - OncoTargets and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
MYC can be considered to be one of the most pressing and important targets for the
development of novel anti-cancer therapies. This is due to its frequent dysregulation in …

MYC in oncogenesis and as a target for cancer therapies

A Albihn, JI Johnsen, MA Henriksson - Advances in cancer research, 2010 - Elsevier
Abstract MYC proteins (c-MYC, MYCN, and MYCL) regulate processes involved in many if
not all aspects of cell fate. Therefore, it is not surprising that the MYC genes are deregulated …

Mission possible: advances in MYC therapeutic targeting in cancer

BL Allen-Petersen, RC Sears - BioDrugs, 2019 - Springer
MYC is a master transcriptional regulator that controls almost all cellular processes. Over the
last several decades, researchers have strived to define the context-dependent …

Strategies to target the cancer driver MYC in tumor cells

LI Weber, M Hartl - Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The MYC oncoprotein functions as a master regulator of cellular transcription and executes
non-transcriptional tasks relevant to DNA replication and cell cycle regulation, thereby …

MYC: there is more to it than cancer

MF Zacarías-Fluck, L Soucek… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
MYC is a pleiotropic transcription factor involved in multiple cellular processes. While its
mechanism of action and targets are not completely elucidated, it has a fundamental role in …

MYC, metabolism, and cancer

ZE Stine, ZE Walton, BJ Altman, AL Hsieh, CV Dang - Cancer discovery, 2015 - AACR
The MYC oncogene encodes a transcription factor, MYC, whose broad effects make its
precise oncogenic role enigmatically elusive. The evidence to date suggests that MYC …

Therapeutic targeting of “undruggable” MYC

V Llombart, MR Mansour - EBioMedicine, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary c-MYC controls global gene expression and regulates cell proliferation, cell
differentiation, cell cycle, metabolism and apoptosis. According to some estimates, MYC is …

The molecular 'Myc-anisms' behind Myc-driven tumorigenesis and the relevant Myc-directed therapeutics

J McAnulty, A DiFeo - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
MYC, a well-studied proto-oncogene that is overexpressed in> 20% of tumors across all
cancers, is classically known as “undruggable” due to its crucial roles in cell processes and …

Regulation of cancer cell metabolism: oncogenic MYC in the driver's seat

Y Dong, R Tu, H Liu, G Qing - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer cells must rewire cellular metabolism to satisfy the demands of unbridled growth and
proliferation. As such, most human cancers differ from normal counterpart tissues by a …

MYC the oncogene from hell: Novel opportunities for cancer therapy

A Papadimitropoulou, M Makri, G Zoidis - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cancer comprises a heterogeneous disease, characterized by diverse features such as
constitutive expression of oncogenes and/or downregulation of tumor suppressor genes …