The MYC oncogene — the grand orchestrator of cancer growth and immune evasion

R Dhanasekaran, A Deutzmann… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
The MYC proto-oncogenes encode a family of transcription factors that are among the most
commonly activated oncoproteins in human neoplasias. Indeed, MYC aberrations or …

Therapy resistance: opportunities created by adaptive responses to targeted therapies in cancer

M Labrie, JS Brugge, GB Mills… - Nature reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Normal cells explore multiple states to survive stresses encountered during development
and self-renewal as well as environmental stresses such as starvation, DNA damage, toxins …

MYC protein interactors in gene transcription and cancer

C Lourenco, D Resetca, C Redel, P Lin… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The transcription factor and oncoprotein MYC is a potent driver of many human cancers and
can regulate numerous biological activities that contribute to tumorigenesis. How a single …

Recent advances in targeting the “undruggable” proteins: from drug discovery to clinical trials

X Xie, T Yu, X Li, N Zhang, LJ Foster, C Peng… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Undruggable proteins are a class of proteins that are often characterized by large, complex
structures or functions that are difficult to interfere with using conventional drug design …

EZH2 noncanonically binds cMyc and p300 through a cryptic transactivation domain to mediate gene activation and promote oncogenesis

J Wang, X Yu, W Gong, X Liu, KS Park, A Ma… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Canonically, EZH2 serves as the catalytic subunit of PRC2, which mediates H3K27me3
deposition and transcriptional repression. Here, we report that in acute leukaemias, EZH2 …

MYC: a complex problem

SK Das, BA Lewis, D Levens - Trends in cell biology, 2023 - cell.com
The MYC protooncogene functions as a universal amplifier of transcription through
interaction with numerous factors and complexes that regulate almost every cellular process …

Human embryonic genome activation initiates at the one-cell stage

M Asami, BYH Lam, MK Ma, K Rainbow, S Braun… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
In human embryos, the initiation of transcription (embryonic genome activation [EGA]) occurs
by the eight-cell stage, but its exact timing and profile are unclear. To address this, we …

Targeting transcription cycles in cancer

SJ Vervoort, JR Devlin, N Kwiatkowski, M Teng… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Accurate control of gene expression is essential for normal development and dysregulation
of transcription underpins cancer onset and progression. Similar to cell cycle regulation …

MYCN function in neuroblastoma development

J Otte, C Dyberg, A Pepich, JI Johnsen - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Dysregulated expression of the transcription factor MYCN is frequently detected in nervous
system tumors such as childhood neuroblastoma. Here, gene amplification of MYCN is a …

EZH2 depletion potentiates MYC degradation inhibiting neuroblastoma and small cell carcinoma tumor formation

L Wang, C Chen, Z Song, H Wang, M Ye… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Efforts to therapeutically target EZH2 have generally focused on inhibition of its
methyltransferase activity, although it remains less clear whether this is the central …