[HTML][HTML] Inside the stemness engine: Mechanistic links between deregulated transcription factors and stemness in cancer

EH Ervin, R French, CH Chang, S Pauklin - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cell identity is largely determined by its transcriptional profile. In tumour, deregulation of
transcription factor expression and/or activity enables cancer cell to acquire a stem-like state …

[HTML][HTML] Highly cooperative chimeric super-SOX induces naive pluripotency across species

CM MacCarthy, G Wu, V Malik, Y Menuchin-Lasowski… - Cell Stem Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Our understanding of pluripotency remains limited: iPSC generation has only been
established for a few model species, pluripotent stem cell lines exhibit inconsistent …

Evaluation of the determinants for improved pluripotency induction and maintenance by engineered SOX17

H Hu, DHH Ho, DS Tan, CM MacCarthy… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
An engineered SOX17 variant with point mutations within its DNA binding domain termed
SOX17FNV is a more potent pluripotency inducer than SOX2, yet the underlying mechanism …

Oct4 differentially regulates chromatin opening and enhancer transcription in pluripotent stem cells

L Xiong, EA Tolen, J Choi, S Velychko, L Caizzi… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The transcription factor Oct4 is essential for the maintenance and induction of stem cell
pluripotency, but its functional roles are not fully understood. Here, we investigate the …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary origin of vertebrate OCT4/POU5 functions in supporting pluripotency

W Sukparangsi, E Morganti, M Lowndes… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The support of pluripotent cells over time is an essential feature of development. In eutherian
embryos, pluripotency is maintained from naïve states in peri-implantation to primed …

Implications of cancer stem cells in diabetes and pancreatic cancer

AG Mukherjee, UR Wanjari, AV Gopalakrishnan… - Life Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
This review provides a detailed study of pancreatic cancer (PC) and the implication of
different types of cancers concerning diabetes. The combination of anti-diabetic drugs with …

The homeodomain of Oct4 is a dimeric binder of methylated CpG elements

DS Tan, SL Cheung, Y Gao, M Weinbuch… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Oct4 is essential to maintain pluripotency and has a pivotal role in establishing the germline.
Its DNA-binding POU domain was recently found to bind motifs with methylated CpG …

[HTML][HTML] Vertebrate Cell Differentiation, Evolution, and Diseases: The Vertebrate-Specific Developmental Potential Guardians VENTX/NANOG and POU5/OCT4 …

B Ducos, D Bensimon, P Scerbo - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
During vertebrate development, embryonic cells pass through a continuum of transitory
pluripotent states that precede multi-lineage commitment and morphogenesis. Such states …

Bacterial Ribosomes Induce Plasticity in Mouse Adult Fibroblasts

A Datta, A Istiaq, S Tamura, K Ohta - Cells, 2024 - mdpi.com
The incorporation of bacterial ribosome has been reported to induce multipotency in somatic
and cancer cells which leads to the conversion of cell lineages. Queried on its universality …

OCT4's role and mechanism underlying oral squamous cell carcinoma

Y Dai, Z Wu, Y Chen, X Ye, C Wang, H Zhu - Journal of Zhejiang …, 2023 - Springer
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), a common malignancy of the head and neck, ranks
sixth worldwide in terms of cancers with the most negative impact, owing to tumor relapse …