Deubiquitinases in cancer

G Dewson, PJA Eichhorn, D Komander - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Ubiquitination is an essential regulator of most, if not all, signalling pathways, and defects in
cellular signalling are central to cancer initiation, progression and, eventually, metastasis …

[HTML][HTML] Control of cell metabolism by the epidermal growth factor receptor

LA Orofiamma, D Vural, CN Antonescu - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2022 - Elsevier
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) triggers the activation of many intracellular
signals that control cell proliferation, growth, survival, migration, and differentiation. Given its …

Discovery of KB-0742, a potent, selective, orally bioavailable small molecule inhibitor of CDK9 for MYC-dependent cancers

DB Freeman, TD Hopkins, PJ Mikochik… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Transcriptional deregulation is a hallmark of many cancers and is exemplified by genomic
amplifications of the MYC family of oncogenes, which occur in at least 20% of all solid …

Deciphering the Role of the Ser‐Phosphorylation Pattern on the DNA‐Binding Activity of Max Transcription Factor Using Chemical Protein Synthesis

RV Nithun, YM Yao, X Lin, S Habiballah… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The chemical synthesis of site‐specifically modified transcription factors (TFs) is a powerful
method to investigate how post‐translational modifications (PTMs) influence TF‐DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-transcriptome analysis following an acute skeletal muscle growth stimulus yields tools for discerning global and MYC regulatory networks

KA Murach, Z Liu, B Jude, VC Figueiredo, Y Wen… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
Myc is a powerful transcription factor implicated in epigenetic reprogramming, cellular
plasticity, and rapid growth as well as tumorigenesis. Cancer in skeletal muscle is extremely …

[HTML][HTML] PAF1c links S-phase progression to immune evasion and MYC function in pancreatic carcinoma

A Gaballa, A Gebhardt-Wolf, B Krenz… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), endogenous MYC is required for S-phase
progression and escape from immune surveillance. Here we show that MYC in PDAC cells …

Defining the KRAS-and ERK-dependent transcriptome in KRAS-mutant cancers

JA Klomp, JE Klomp, CA Stalnecker, KL Bryant… - Science, 2024 - science.org
How the KRAS oncogene drives cancer growth remains poorly understood. Therefore, we
established a systemwide portrait of KRAS-and extracellular signal–regulated kinase (ERK) …

[HTML][HTML] G1 Dynamics at the Crossroads of Pluripotency and Cancer

D Fleifel, JG Cook - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The cell division cycle is tightly regulated to ensure faithful and complete
DNA replication. A critical cell cycle phase is G1 in which cells prepare DNA for replication in …

[HTML][HTML] The initiation of mammalian embryonic transcription: to begin at the beginning

ACF Perry, M Asami, BYH Lam, GSH Yeo - Trends in cell biology, 2023 - cell.com
Gamete (sperm and oocyte) genomes are transcriptionally silent until embryonic genome
activation (EGA) following fertilization. EGA in humans had been thought to occur around the …

[HTML][HTML] MYC function and regulation in physiological perspective

RK Jha, F Kouzine, D Levens - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
MYC, a key member of the Myc-proto-oncogene family, is a universal transcription amplifier
that regulates almost every physiological process in a cell including cell cycle, proliferation …