MYC: a multipurpose oncogene with prognostic and therapeutic implications in blood malignancies

SE Ahmadi, S Rahimi, B Zarandi, R Chegeni… - Journal of hematology & …, 2021 - Springer
MYC oncogene is a transcription factor with a wide array of functions affecting cellular
activities such as cell cycle, apoptosis, DNA damage response, and hematopoiesis. Due to …

MYC deregulation in primary human cancers

M Kalkat, J De Melo, KA Hickman, C Lourenco… - Genes, 2017 - mdpi.com
MYC regulates a complex biological program by transcriptionally activating and repressing
its numerous target genes. As such, MYC is a master regulator of many processes, including …

Myc and cell cycle control

G Bretones, MD Delgado, J León - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2015 - Elsevier
Soon after the discovery of the Myc gene (c-Myc), it became clear that Myc expression levels
tightly correlate to cell proliferation. The entry in cell cycle of quiescent cells upon Myc …

MYC: connecting selective transcriptional control to global RNA production

TR Kress, A Sabò, B Amati - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Two opposing models have been proposed to describe the function of the MYC oncoprotein
in shaping cellular transcriptomes: one posits that MYC amplifies transcription at all active …

Reflecting on 25 years with MYC

N Meyer, LZ Penn - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2008 - nature.com
Just over 25 years ago, MYC, the human homologue of a retroviral oncogene, was
identified. Since that time, MYC research has been intense and the advances impressive …

The c-Myc target gene network

CV Dang, KA O'Donnell, KI Zeller, T Nguyen… - Seminars in cancer …, 2006 - Elsevier
For more than a decade, numerous studies have suggested that the c-Myc oncogenic
protein is likely to broadly influence the composition of the transcriptome. However, the …

Widespread microRNA repression by Myc contributes to tumorigenesis

TC Chang, D Yu, YS Lee, EA Wentzel, DE Arking… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
The c-Myc oncogenic transcription factor (Myc) is pathologically activated in many human
malignancies. Myc is known to directly upregulate a pro-tumorigenic group of microRNAs …

Myc's broad reach

M Eilers, RN Eisenman - Genes & development, 2008 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The role of the myc gene family in the biology of normal and cancer cells has been
intensively studied since the early 1980s. myc genes, responding to diverse external and …

An extended transcriptional network for pluripotency of embryonic stem cells

J Kim, J Chu, X Shen, J Wang, SH Orkin - Cell, 2008 - cell.com
Much attention has focused on a small set of transcription factors that maintain human or
mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells in a pluripotent state. To gain a more complete …

Transcriptional regulation and transformation by Myc proteins

S Adhikary, M Eilers - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2005 - nature.com
Myc genes are key regulators of cell proliferation, and their deregulation contributes to the
genesis of most human tumours. Recently, a wealth of data has shed new light on the …