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 …

SCENIC+: single-cell multiomic inference of enhancers and gene regulatory networks

C Bravo González-Blas, S De Winter, G Hulselmans… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Joint profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression in individual cells provides an
opportunity to decipher enhancer-driven gene regulatory networks (GRNs). Here we present …

An integrated genome-wide CRISPRa approach to functionalize lncRNAs in drug resistance

AC Bester, JD Lee, A Chavez, YR Lee, D Nachmani… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Resistance to chemotherapy plays a significant role in cancer mortality. To identify genetic
units affecting sensitivity to cytarabine, the mainstay of treatment for acute myeloid leukemia …

BCL6 as a therapeutic target for lymphoma

RJ Leeman-Neill, G Bhagat - Expert opinion on therapeutic targets, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: B cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) is a transcriptional repressor critical for the
development and maintenance of germinal centers (GCs), which are required for generation …

Super-enhancer-driven long non-coding RNA LINC01503, regulated by TP63, is over-expressed and oncogenic in squamous cell carcinoma

JJ Xie, YY Jiang, Y Jiang, CQ Li, MC Lim, O An… - Gastroenterology, 2018 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are expressed in tissue-specific
pattern, but it is not clear how these are regulated. We aimed to identify squamous cell …

BCL6 is regulated by the MAPK/ELK1 axis and promotes KRAS-driven lung cancer

K Li, Y Liu, Y Ding, Z Zhang, J Feng… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Mutational activation of KRAS is a common oncogenic event in lung cancer, yet effective
therapies are still lacking. Here, we identify B cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) as a lynchpin in …

Roles of lncRNA LVBU in regulating urea cycle/polyamine synthesis axis to promote colorectal carcinoma progression

X Meng, J Peng, X Xie, F Yu, W Wang, Q Pan, H Jin… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Altered expression of Urea Cycle (UC) enzymes occurs in many tumors, resulting a
metabolic hallmark termed as UC dysregulation. Polyamines are synthesized from ornithine …

B-cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6): from master regulator of humoral immunity to oncogenic driver in pediatric cancers

T McLachlan, WC Matthews, ER Jackson… - Molecular Cancer …, 2022 - AACR
Abstract B-cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) is a protooncogene in adult and pediatric cancers, first
identified in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) where it acts as a repressor of the tumor …

B-cell lymphoma 6 inhibitors: current advances and prospects of drug development for diffuse Large b-cell lymphomas

H Gu, J He, Y Li, D Mi, T Guan, W Guo… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
B-cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) is a transcriptional repressor that regulates the differentiation of B
lymphocytes and mediates the formation of germinal centers (GCs) by recruiting …

BCL6 confers KRAS-mutant non–small-cell lung cancer resistance to BET inhibitors

J Guo, Y Liu, J Lv, B Zou, Z Chen, K Li… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The bromodomain and extra-terminal domain (BET) proteins are promising therapeutic
targets to treat refractory solid tumors; however, inherent resistance remains a major …