Induced pluripotent stem cells in disease modelling and drug discovery

RG Rowe, GQ Daley - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
The derivation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) over a decade ago sparked
widespread enthusiasm for the development of new models of human disease, enhanced …

Modeling the process of human tumorigenesis

S Balani, LV Nguyen, CJ Eaves - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Modelling the genesis of human cancers is at a scientific turning point. Starting from primary
sources of normal human cells, it is now possible to reproducibly generate several types of …

In vivo CRISPR/Cas9 targeting of fusion oncogenes for selective elimination of cancer cells

M Martinez-Lage, R Torres-Ruiz, P Puig-Serra… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Fusion oncogenes (FOs) are common in many cancer types and are powerful drivers of
tumor development. Because their expression is exclusive to cancer cells and their …

Fratricide-resistant CD1a-specific CAR T cells for the treatment of cortical T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

D Sánchez-Martínez, ML Baroni… - Blood, The Journal …, 2019 - ashpublications.org
Relapsed/refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) has a dismal outcome, and
no effective targeted immunotherapies for T-ALL exist. The extension of chimeric antigen …

Human AML-iPSCs reacquire leukemic properties after differentiation and model clonal variation of disease

MP Chao, AJ Gentles, S Chatterjee, F Lan, A Reinisch… - Cell stem cell, 2017 - cell.com
Understanding the relative contributions of genetic and epigenetic abnormalities to acute
myeloid leukemia (AML) should assist integrated design of targeted therapies. In this study …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the cellular origin and clinical prognostic markers of infant B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia using genome-wide analysis

A Agraz-Doblas, C Bueno, R Bashford-Rogers… - …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the commonest childhood cancer. In infants, B-cell
acute lymphoblastic leukemia remains fatal, especially in patients with t (4; 11), present in …

miR-130b and miR-128a are essential lineage-specific codrivers of t (4; 11) MLL-AF4 acute leukemia

C Malouf, ETB Antunes, M O'Dwyer… - Blood, The Journal …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
Abstract t (4; 11) MLL-AF4 acute leukemia is one of the most aggressive malignancies in the
infant and pediatric population, yet we have little information on the molecular mechanisms …

Progress in construction of mouse models to investigate the pathogenesis and immune therapy of human hematological malignancy

Y Lang, Y Lyu, Y Tan, Z Hu - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Hematological malignancy is a disease arisen by complicate reasons that seriously
endangers human health. The research on its pathogenesis and therapies depends on the …

Efficient recreation of t (11; 22) EWSR1-FLI1+ in human stem cells using CRISPR/Cas9

R Torres-Ruiz, M Martinez-Lage, MC Martin, A Garcia… - Stem cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Efficient methodologies for recreating cancer-associated chromosome translocations are in
high demand as tools for investigating how such events initiate cancer. The CRISPR/Cas9 …

Patient-derived iPSCs faithfully represent the genetic diversity and cellular architecture of human acute myeloid leukemia

AG Kotini, S Carcamo, N Cruz-Rodriguez… - Blood cancer …, 2023 - AACR
The reprogramming of human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells into induced pluripotent
stem cell (iPSC) lines could provide new faithful genetic models of AML, but is currently …