CRISPR/Cas9 for cancer therapy: hopes and challenges

M Martinez-Lage, P Puig-Serra, P Menendez… - Biomedicines, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally and remains a major economic and
social burden. Although our understanding of cancer at the molecular level continues to …

CRISPR–Cas-mediated chromosome engineering for crop improvement and synthetic biology

M Rönspies, A Dorn, P Schindele, H Puchta - Nature plants, 2021 - nature.com
Plant breeding relies on the presence of genetic variation, as well as on the ability to break
or stabilize genetic linkages between traits. The development of the genome-editing tool …

Melanoma-derived small extracellular vesicles induce lymphangiogenesis and metastasis through an NGFR-dependent mechanism

S García-Silva, A Benito-Martín, L Nogués… - Nature Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Secreted extracellular vesicles (EVs) influence the tumor microenvironment and promote
distal metastasis. Here we analyzed the involvement of melanoma-secreted EVs in lymph …

Comprehensive analysis and accurate quantification of unintended large gene modifications induced by CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing

SH Park, M Cao, Y Pan, TH Davis, L Saxena… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Most genome editing analyses to date are based on quantifying small insertions and
deletions. Here, we show that CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing can induce large gene …

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 …

TERRA recruitment of polycomb to telomeres is essential for histone trymethylation marks at telomeric heterochromatin

JJ Montero, I López-Silanes, D Megías… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
TERRAs are long non-coding RNAs generated from the telomeres. Lack of TERRA knockout
models has hampered understanding TERRAs' functions. We recently identified …

Unraveling Ewing sarcoma tumorigenesis originating from patient-derived mesenchymal stem cells

A Sole, S Grossetête, M Heintzé, L Babin, S Zaïdi… - Cancer research, 2021 - AACR
Ewing sarcoma is characterized by pathognomonic translocations, most frequently fusing
EWSR1 with FLI1. An estimated 30% of Ewing sarcoma tumors also display genetic …

Gain-of-function mutations in DNMT3A in patients with paraganglioma

L Remacha, M Currás-Freixes, R Torres-Ruiz… - Genetics in …, 2018 - nature.com
Purpose The high percentage of patients carrying germline mutations makes
pheochromocytomas/paragangliomas the most heritable of all tumors. However, there are …

Induction of chromosomal translocations with CRISPR-Cas9 and other nucleases: understanding the repair mechanisms that give rise to translocations

E Brunet, M Jasin - Chromosome translocation, 2018 - Springer
Chromosomal translocations are associated with several tumor types, including
hematopoietic malignancies, sarcomas, and solid tumors of epithelial origin, due to their …

Integrating gene delivery and gene-editing technologies by adenoviral vector transfer of optimized CRISPR-Cas9 components

I Maggio, HA Zittersteijn, Q Wang, J Liu, JM Janssen… - Gene therapy, 2020 - nature.com
Enhancing the intracellular delivery and performance of RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9
nucleases (RGNs) remains in demand. Here, we show that nuclear translocation of …