MAF amplification licenses ERα through epigenetic remodelling to drive breast cancer metastasis

A Llorente, MT Blasco, I Espuny, M Guiu, C Ballaré… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
MAF amplification increases the risk of breast cancer (BCa) metastasis through mechanisms
that are still poorly understood yet have important clinical implications. Oestrogen-receptor …

Breast cancer methylomes establish an epigenomic foundation for metastasis

F Fang, S Turcan, A Rimner, A Kaufman… - Science translational …, 2011 - science.org
Cancer-specific alterations in DNA methylation are hallmarks of human malignancies;
however, the nature of the breast cancer epigenome and its effects on metastatic behavior …

Remodeling of the methylation landscape in breast cancer metastasis

M Reyngold, S Turcan, D Giri, K Kannan, LA Walsh… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The development of breast cancer metastasis is accompanied by dynamic transcriptome
changes and dramatic alterations in nuclear and chromatin structure. The basis of these …

Multi-platform whole-genome microarray analyses refine the epigenetic signature of breast cancer metastasis with gene expression and copy number

J Andrews, W Kennette, J Pilon, A Hodgson, AB Tuck… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background We have previously identified genome-wide DNA methylation changes in a cell
line model of breast cancer metastasis. These complex epigenetic changes that we …

Effect of estrogen receptor α binding on functional DNA methylation in breast cancer

M Ung, X Ma, KC Johnson, BC Christensen… - Epigenetics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Epigenetic modifications introduce an additional layer of regulation that drastically expands
the instructional capability of the human genome. The regulatory consequences of DNA …

Comparative analysis of the AIB1 interactome in breast cancer reveals MTA2 as a repressive partner which silences E-Cadherin to promote EMT and associates with …

D Varešlija, E Ward, SP Purcell, NS Cosgrove… - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
Steroid regulated cancer cells use nuclear receptors and associated regulatory proteins to
orchestrate transcriptional networks to drive disease progression. In primary breast cancer …

Coordinated epigenetic remodelling of transcriptional networks occurs during early breast carcinogenesis

WJ Locke, E Zotenko, C Stirzaker, MD Robinson… - Clinical …, 2015 - Springer
Background Dysregulation of the epigenome is a common event in malignancy; however,
deciphering the earliest cancer-associated epigenetic events remains a challenge. Cancer …

MAF1 is a predictive biomarker in HER2 positive breast cancer

S Cabarcas-Petroski, G Olshefsky, L Schramm - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
RNA polymerase III transcription is pivotal in regulating cellular growth and frequently
deregulated in various cancers. MAF1 negatively regulates RNA polymerase III transcription …

DNA methylation at enhancers identifies distinct breast cancer lineages

T Fleischer, X Tekpli, A Mathelier, S Wang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Breast cancers exhibit genome-wide aberrant DNA methylation patterns. To investigate how
these affect the transcriptome and which changes are linked to transformation or …

Enhanced MAF oncogene expression and breast cancer bone metastasis

M Pavlovic, A Arnal-Estapé, F Rojo… - Journal of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background: There are currently no biomarkers for early breast cancer patient populations at
risk of bone metastasis. Identification of mediators of bone metastasis could be of clinical …