Wnt signaling in triple-negative breast cancer

SÖG Pohl, N Brook, M Agostino, F Arfuso, AP Kumar… - Oncogenesis, 2017 - nature.com
Wnt signaling regulates a variety of cellular processes, including cell fate, differentiation,
proliferation and stem cell pluripotency. Aberrant Wnt signaling is a hallmark of many …

[HTML][HTML] Organoid models of human gastrointestinal development and disease

PH Dedhia, N Bertaux-Skeirik, Y Zavros, JR Spence - Gastroenterology, 2016 - Elsevier
We have greatly advanced our ability to grow a diverse range of tissue-derived and
pluripotent stem cell–derived gastrointestinal (GI) tissues in vitro. These systems, broadly …

Transcription factor profiling reveals molecular choreography and key regulators of human retrotransposon expression

X Sun, X Wang, Z Tang, M Grivainis… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Transposable elements (TEs) represent a substantial fraction of many eukaryotic genomes,
and transcriptional regulation of these factors is important to determine TE activities in …

Identification of susceptibility loci and genes for colorectal cancer risk

C Zeng, K Matsuda, WH Jia, J Chang, SS Kweon… - Gastroenterology, 2016 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Known genetic factors explain only a small fraction of genetic variation
in colorectal cancer (CRC). We conducted a genome-wide association study to identify risk …

H4K16ac activates the transcription of transposable elements and contributes to their cis-regulatory function

D Pal, M Patel, F Boulet, J Sundarraj… - Nature structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
Mammalian genomes harbor abundant transposable elements (TEs) and their remnants,
with numerous epigenetic repression mechanisms enacted to silence TE transcription …

Directly targeting transcriptional dysregulation in cancer

TJ Gonda, RG Ramsay - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Drugs that target intracellular signalling pathways have markedly improved progression-free
survival of patients with cancers who were previously regarded as untreatable. However, the …

Factors regulating the activity of LINE1 retrotransposons

MS Protasova, TV Andreeva, EI Rogaev - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
LINE-1 (L1) is a class of autonomous mobile genetic elements that form somatic mosaicisms
in various tissues of the organism. The activity of L1 retrotransposons is strictly controlled by …

RAD21 amplification epigenetically suppresses interferon signaling to promote immune evasion in ovarian cancer

P Deng, Z Wang, J Chen, S Liu, X Yao… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Prevalent copy number alteration is the most prominent genetic characteristic associated
with ovarian cancer (OV) development, but its role in immune evasion has not been fully …

[HTML][HTML] LINE-1 in cancer: multifaceted functions and potential clinical implications

L Xiao-Jie, X Hui-Ying, X Qi, X Jiang, M Shi-Jie - Genetics in Medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (L1) retrotransposons are jumping genes that
comprise 17% of human DNA. They utilize a ''copy-and-paste''mechanism to propagate …

Cohesin mutations in cancer: emerging therapeutic targets

J Antony, CV Chin, JA Horsfield - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The cohesin complex is crucial for mediating sister chromatid cohesion and for hierarchal
three-dimensional organization of the genome. Mutations in cohesin genes are present in a …