Advances in targeting 'undruggable'transcription factors with small molecules

MJ Henley, AN Koehler - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Transcription factors (TFs) represent key biological players in diseases including cancer,
autoimmunity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, outside nuclear receptors …

Liquid–liquid phase separation in tumor biology

X Tong, R Tang, J Xu, W Wang, Y Zhao, X Yu… - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a novel principle for explaining the precise spatial
and temporal regulation in living cells. LLPS compartmentalizes proteins and nucleic acids …

[HTML][HTML] MYB orchestrates T cell exhaustion and response to checkpoint inhibition

C Tsui, L Kretschmer, S Rapelius, SS Gabriel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells that respond to chronic viral infections or cancer are characterized by the
expression of inhibitory receptors such as programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and by …

Super-enhancer hypermutation alters oncogene expression in B cell lymphoma

E Bal, R Kumar, M Hadigol, AB Holmes, LK Hilton… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
and remains incurable in around 40% of patients. Efforts to sequence the coding genome …

Biomolecular condensates and cancer

A Boija, IA Klein, RA Young - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Malignant transformation is characterized by dysregulation of diverse cellular processes that
have been the subject of detailed genetic, biochemical, and structural studies, but only …

Partitioning of cancer therapeutics in nuclear condensates

IA Klein, A Boija, LK Afeyan, SW Hawken, M Fan… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The nucleus contains diverse phase-separated condensates that compartmentalize and
concentrate biomolecules with distinct physicochemical properties. Here, we investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancer RNA m6A methylation facilitates transcriptional condensate formation and gene activation

JH Lee, R Wang, F Xiong, J Krakowiak, Z Liao… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
The mechanistic understanding of nascent RNAs in transcriptional control remains limited.
Here, by a high sensitivity method methylation-inscribed nascent transcripts sequencing …

Coactivator condensation at super-enhancers links phase separation and gene control

BR Sabari, A Dall'Agnese, A Boija, IA Klein, EL Coffey… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Mammalian genes that play prominent roles in healthy and diseased
cellular states are often controlled by special DNA elements called super-enhancers (SEs) …

A phase separation model for transcriptional control

D Hnisz, K Shrinivas, RA Young, AK Chakraborty… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Phase-separated multi-molecular assemblies provide a general regulatory mechanism to
compartmentalize biochemical reactions within cells. We propose that a phase separation …

EBV miRNAs BART11 and BART17-3p promote immune escape through the enhancer-mediated transcription of PD-L1

J Wang, J Ge, Y Wang, F Xiong, J Guo, X Jiang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is reportedly the first identified human tumor virus, and is closely
related to the occurrence and development of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), gastric …