NUT Carcinoma: Clinicopathologic features, pathogenesis, and treatment

CA French - Pathology international, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
NUT carcinoma (NC) is a rare, aggressive subtype of squamous cell carcinoma defined by
rearrangement of the NUTM1 (aka NUT) gene. NC is driven by NUT‐fusion oncoproteins …

Update on genetically defined lung neoplasms: NUT carcinoma and thoracic SMARCA4-deficient undifferentiated tumors

K Chatzopoulos, JM Boland - Virchows Archiv, 2021 - Springer
NUT carcinoma, also known as NUT midline carcinoma, is an aggressive malignancy mainly
affecting the midline structures of younger patients and almost invariably leading to death …

NSD3–NUT fusion oncoprotein in NUT midline carcinoma: implications for a novel oncogenic mechanism

CA French, S Rahman, EM Walsh, S Kühnle… - Cancer discovery, 2014 - AACR
NUT midline carcinoma (NMC) is an aggressive subtype of squamous cell carcinoma that
typically harbors BRD4/3–NUT fusion oncoproteins that block differentiation and maintain …

The oncogenic BRD4-NUT chromatin regulator drives aberrant transcription within large topological domains

AA Alekseyenko, EM Walsh, X Wang… - Genes & …, 2015 - genesdev.cshlp.org
NUT midline carcinoma (NMC), a subtype of squamous cell cancer, is one of the most
aggressive human solid malignancies known. NMC is driven by the creation of a …

NUTM1 gene fusions characterize a subset of undifferentiated soft tissue and visceral tumors

BC Dickson, YS Sung, MK Rosenblum… - The American journal …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
NUT midline carcinoma is an aggressive tumor that occurs mainly in the head and neck and,
less frequently, the mediastinum and lung. Following identification of an index case of a …

Ectopic protein interactions within BRD4–chromatin complexes drive oncogenic megadomain formation in NUT midline carcinoma

AA Alekseyenko, EM Walsh, BM Zee… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
To investigate the mechanism that drives dramatic mistargeting of active chromatin in NUT
midline carcinoma (NMC), we have identified protein interactions unique to the BRD4–NUT …

Structural mechanism of BRD4-NUT and p300 bipartite interaction in propagating aberrant gene transcription in chromatin in NUT carcinoma

D Yu, Y Liang, C Kim, A Jaganathan, D Ji… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
BRD4-NUT, a driver fusion mutant in rare and highly aggressive NUT carcinoma, acts in
aberrant transcription of anti-differentiation genes by recruiting histone acetyltransferase …

[HTML][HTML] NUT carcinoma: clinicopathologic features, molecular genetics and epigenetics

V Moreno, K Saluja, S Pina-Oviedo - Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Nuclear protein in testis (NUT) carcinoma is a rare, highly aggressive, poorly differentiated
carcinoma occurring mostly in adolescents and young adults. This tumor usually arises from …

Discovery of chemical inhibitors of human bromodomains

G Zhang, SG Smith, MM Zhou - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Acetylation of lysines on nucleosomal histones has long been perceived as being
responsible for weakening DNA− histone interactions, thereby influencing gene …

Small-molecule targeting of BET proteins in cancer

CA French - Advances in cancer research, 2016 - Elsevier
BET proteins have recently become recognized for their role in a broad range of cancers
and are defined by the presence of two acetyl-histone reading bromodomains and an ET …