Targeting transcription factors in cancer

AS Bhagwat, CR Vakoc - Trends in cancer, 2015 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) are commonly deregulated in the pathogenesis of human cancer
and are a major class of cancer cell dependencies. Consequently, targeting of TFs can be …

Transcription factors: The fulcrum between cell development and carcinogenesis

Z Islam, AM Ali, A Naik, M Eldaw, J Decock… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Higher eukaryotic development is a complex and tightly regulated process, whereby
transcription factors (TFs) play a key role in controlling the gene regulatory networks …

Transcription factors in cancer development and therapy

K Vishnoi, N Viswakarma, A Rana, B Rana - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cancer is a multi-step process and requires constitutive expression/activation of
transcription factors (TFs) for growth and survival. Many of the TFs reported so far are critical …

Advances in targeting 'undruggable'transcription factors with small molecules

MJ Henley, AN Koehler - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Transcription factors (TFs) represent key biological players in diseases including cancer,
autoimmunity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, outside nuclear receptors …

Targeting transcription factors for cancer treatment

M Lambert, S Jambon, S Depauw… - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Transcription factors are involved in a large number of human diseases such as cancers for
which they account for about 20% of all oncogenes identified so far. For long time, with the …

Transcription factors: Bridge between cell signaling and gene regulation

P Weidemüller, M Kholmatov, E Petsalaki… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Transcription factors (TFs) are key regulators of intrinsic cellular processes, such as
differentiation and development, and of the cellular response to external perturbation …

Targeting transcription factors in cancer—from undruggable to reality

JH Bushweller - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Mutated or dysregulated transcription factors represent a unique class of drug targets that
mediate aberrant gene expression, including blockade of differentiation and cell death gene …

Transcriptional factors targeting in cancer stem cells for tumor modulation

A Chaudhary, SS Raza, R Haque - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs) are now considered the primary" seeds" for the onset,
development, metastasis, and recurrence of tumors. Despite therapeutic breakthroughs …

Targeting key proteins involved in transcriptional regulation for cancer therapy: Current strategies and future prospective

H Pei, W Guo, Y Peng, H Xiong… - Medicinal Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The key proteins involved in transcriptional regulation play convergent roles in cellular
homeostasis, and their dysfunction mediates aberrant gene expressions that underline the …

Drugging the undruggable: transcription therapy for cancer

C Yan, PJ Higgins - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2013 - Elsevier
Transcriptional regulation is often the convergence point of oncogenic signaling. It is not
surprising, therefore, that aberrant gene expression is a hallmark of cancer. Transformed …