Genomic and biochemical insights into the specificity of ETS transcription factors

PC Hollenhorst, LP McIntosh… - Annual review of …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
ETS proteins are a group of evolutionarily related, DNA-binding transcriptional factors.
These proteins direct gene expression in diverse normal and disease states by binding to …

The ets transcription factor Fli-1 in development, cancer and disease

Y Li, H Luo, T Liu, E Zacksenhaus, Y Ben-David - Oncogene, 2015 - nature.com
Friend leukemia virus-induced erythroleukemia-1 (Fli-1), an E26 transformation specific
(ETS) transcription factor, was isolated a quarter century ago through a retrovirus …

In vivo CD8+ T cell CRISPR screening reveals control by Fli1 in infection and cancer

Z Chen, E Arai, O Khan, Z Zhang, SF Ngiow, Y He… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Improving effector activity of antigen-specific T cells is a major goal in cancer
immunotherapy. Despite the identification of several effector T cell (T EFF)-driving …

Deregulation of DUX4 and ERG in acute lymphoblastic leukemia

J Zhang, K McCastlain, H Yoshihara, B Xu, Y Chang… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Chromosomal rearrangements deregulating hematopoietic transcription factors are common
in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Here we show that deregulation of the homeobox …

BET bromodomain inhibition suppresses the function of hematopoietic transcription factors in acute myeloid leukemia

JS Roe, F Mercan, K Rivera, DJ Pappin, CR Vakoc - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
The bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) protein BRD4 is a validated drug target in
leukemia, yet its regulatory function in this disease is not well understood. Here, we show …

Interrogation of human hematopoiesis at single-cell and single-variant resolution

JC Ulirsch, CA Lareau, EL Bao, LS Ludwig, MH Guo… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Widespread linkage disequilibrium and incomplete annotation of cell-to-cell state variation
represent substantial challenges to elucidating mechanisms of trait-associated genetic …

ETV6 dependency in Ewing sarcoma by antagonism of EWS-FLI1-mediated enhancer activation

Y Gao, XY He, XS Wu, YH Huang, S Toneyan, T Ha… - Nature cell …, 2023 - nature.com
The EWS-FLI1 fusion oncoprotein deregulates transcription to initiate the paediatric cancer
Ewing sarcoma. Here we used a domain-focused CRISPR screen to implicate the …

Single-cell analyses reveal early thymic progenitors and pre-B cells in zebrafish

SA Rubin, CS Baron, C Pessoa Rodrigues… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
The zebrafish has proven to be a valuable model organism for studying hematopoiesis, but
relatively little is known about zebrafish immune cell development and functional diversity …

Megakaryocytes possess a functional intrinsic apoptosis pathway that must be restrained to survive and produce platelets

EC Josefsson, C James, KJ Henley… - Journal of Experimental …, 2011 - rupress.org
It is believed that megakaryocytes undergo a specialized form of apoptosis to shed platelets.
Conversely, a range of pathophysiological insults, including chemotherapy, are thought to …

DNA methylation at enhancers identifies distinct breast cancer lineages

T Fleischer, X Tekpli, A Mathelier, S Wang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Breast cancers exhibit genome-wide aberrant DNA methylation patterns. To investigate how
these affect the transcriptome and which changes are linked to transformation or …