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 …

Immune profiling and quantitative analysis decipher the clinical role of immune-checkpoint expression in the tumor immune microenvironment of DLBCL

ZY Xu-Monette, M Xiao, Q Au, R Padmanabhan… - Cancer immunology …, 2019 - AACR
Abstract PD-1/L1 and CTLA-4 blockade immunotherapies have been approved for 13 types
of cancers and are being studied in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), the most …

The TINCR ubiquitin-like microprotein is a tumor suppressor in squamous cell carcinoma

L Morgado-Palacin, JA Brown, TF Martinez… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The TINCR (T erminal differentiation-I nduced N on-C oding R NA) gene is selectively
expressed in epithelium tissues and is involved in the control of human epidermal …

Neoplasia-associated chromosome translocations resulting in gene truncation

I Panagopoulos, S Heim - Cancer Genomics & Proteomics, 2022 - cgp.iiarjournals.org
Chromosomal translocations in cancer as well as benign neoplasias typically lead to the
formation of fusion genes. Such genes may encode chimeric proteins when two protein …

NHEJ-mediated repair of CRISPR-Cas9-induced DNA breaks efficiently corrects mutations in HSPCs from patients with fanconi anemia

FJ Román-Rodríguez, L Ugalde, L Álvarez, B Díez… - Cell Stem Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) is the preferred mechanism used by hematopoietic
stem cells (HSCs) to repair double-stranded DNA breaks and is particularly increased in …

[HTML][HTML] MAML3-fusions modulate vascular and immune tumour microenvironment and confer high metastatic risk in pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma

M Monteagudo, B Calsina, ME Salazar-Hidalgo… - Best Practice & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas are rare neuroendocrine tumours. Around 20-
25% of patients develop metastases, for which there is an urgent need of prognostic markers …

A novel and efficient tandem CD19-and CD22-directed CAR for B cell ALL

SR Zanetti, T Velasco-Hernandez, F Gutierrez-Agüera… - Molecular Therapy, 2022 - cell.com
CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have yielded impressive response
rates in refractory/relapse B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL); however, most …

Comprehensive molecular analysis of immortalization hallmarks in thyroid cancer reveals new prognostic markers

C Montero‐Conde, LJ Leandro‐García… - Clinical and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Comprehensive molecular studies on tumours are needed to delineate
immortalization process steps and identify sensitive prognostic biomarkers in thyroid cancer …

Somatic genome editing with the RCAS-TVA-CRISPR-Cas9 system for precision tumor modeling

B Oldrini, Á Curiel-García, C Marques, V Matia… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
To accurately recapitulate the heterogeneity of human diseases, animal models require to
recreate multiple complex genetic alterations. Here, we combine the RCAS-TVA system with …

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 …