Roles and mechanisms of alternative splicing in cancer—implications for care

SC Bonnal, I López-Oreja, J Valcárcel - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Removal of introns from messenger RNA precursors (pre-mRNA splicing) is an essential
step for the expression of most eukaryotic genes. Alternative splicing enables the regulated …

Mechanisms of enzalutamide resistance in castration‐resistant prostate cancer and therapeutic strategies to overcome it

Y Wang, J Chen, Z Wu, W Ding, S Gao… - British journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Prostate cancer is the second most common malignancy in men and androgen deprivation
therapy is the first‐line therapy. However, most cases will eventually develop castration …

Phase separation drives aberrant chromatin looping and cancer development

JH Ahn, ES Davis, TA Daugird, S Zhao, IY Quiroga… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The development of cancer is intimately associated with genetic abnormalities that target
proteins with intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs). In human haematological malignancies …

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 …

Targeting the p300/CBP axis in lethal prostate cancer

J Welti, A Sharp, N Brooks, W Yuan, C McNair… - Cancer Discovery, 2021 - AACR
Resistance to androgen receptor (AR) blockade in castration-resistant prostate cancer
(CRPC) is associated with sustained AR signaling, including through alternative splicing of …

A selective WDR5 degrader inhibits acute myeloid leukemia in patient-derived mouse models

X Yu, D Li, J Kottur, Y Shen, HS Kim, KS Park… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Interactions between WD40 repeat domain protein 5 (WDR5) and its various partners such
as mixed lineage leukemia (MLL) and c-MYC are essential for sustaining oncogenesis in …

Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying prostate cancer development: therapeutic implications

U Testa, G Castelli, E Pelosi - Medicines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Prostate cancer is the most frequent nonskin cancer and second most common cause of
cancer-related deaths in man. Prostate cancer is a clinically heterogeneous disease with …

Discovery of a dual WDR5 and Ikaros PROTAC degrader as an anti-cancer therapeutic

D Li, X Yu, J Kottur, W Gong, Z Zhang, AJ Storey… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract WD repeat domain 5 (WDR5), an integral component of the MLL/KMT2A lysine
methyltransferase complex, is critically involved in oncogenesis and represents an attractive …

BAHCC1 binds H3K27me3 via a conserved BAH module to mediate gene silencing and oncogenesis

H Fan, J Lu, Y Guo, D Li, ZM Zhang, YH Tsai, WC Pi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Trimethylated histone H3 lysine 27 (H3K27me3) regulates gene repression, cell-fate
determination and differentiation. We report that a conserved bromo-adjacent homology …

A cryptic transactivation domain of EZH2 binds AR and AR's splice variant, promoting oncogene activation and tumorous transformation

J Wang, KS Park, X Yu, W Gong, HS Earp… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 (EZH2) and androgen receptor (AR) are crucial
chromatin/gene regulators involved in the development and/or progression of prostate …