The potent roles of salt-inducible kinases (SIKs) in metabolic homeostasis and tumorigenesis

Z Sun, Q Jiang, J Li, J Guo - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2020 - nature.com
Salt-inducible kinases (SIKs) belong to AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) family, and
functions mainly involve in regulating energy response-related physiological processes …

Salt-inducible kinases: physiology, regulation by cAMP, and therapeutic potential

MN Wein, M Foretz, DE Fisher, RJ Xavier… - Trends in Endocrinology …, 2018 - cell.com
Salt-inducible kinases (SIKs) represent a subfamily of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK)
family kinases. Initially named because SIK1 (the founding member of this kinase family) …

A menin-MLL inhibitor induces specific chromatin changes and eradicates disease in models of MLL-rearranged leukemia

AV Krivtsov, K Evans, JY Gadrey, BK Eschle, C Hatton… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Inhibition of the Menin (MEN1) and MLL (MLL1, KMT2A) interaction is a potential therapeutic
strategy for MLL-rearranged (MLL-r) leukemia. Structure-based design yielded the potent …

Synergistic targeting of FLT3 mutations in AML via combined menin-MLL and FLT3 inhibition

MM Dzama, M Steiner, J Rausch… - Blood, The Journal …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
The interaction of menin (MEN1) and MLL (MLL1, KMT2A) is a dependency and provides a
potential opportunity for treatment of NPM1-mutant (NPM1 mut) and MLL-rearranged (MLL-r) …

LKB1, salt-inducible kinases, and MEF2C are linked dependencies in acute myeloid leukemia

Y Tarumoto, B Lu, TDD Somerville, YH Huang… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
The lineage-specific transcription factor (TF) MEF2C is often deregulated in leukemia.
However, strategies to target this TF have yet to be identified. Here, we used a domain …

Genetic mechanisms of primary chemotherapy resistance in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia

NA McNeer, J Philip, H Geiger, RE Ries, VP Lavallee… - Leukemia, 2019 - nature.com
Acute myeloid leukemias (AML) are characterized by mutations of tumor suppressor and
oncogenes, involving distinct genes in adults and children. While certain mutations have …

IKAROS and MENIN coordinate therapeutically actionable leukemogenic gene expression in MLL-r acute myeloid leukemia

BJ Aubrey, JA Cutler, W Bourgeois, KA Donovan, S Gu… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains difficult to treat and requires new therapeutic
approaches. Potent inhibitors of the chromatin-associated protein MENIN have recently …

Current methods of post-translational modification analysis and their applications in blood cancers

K Dunphy, P Dowling, D Bazou, P O'Gorman - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This review discusses current techniques used to study post-translational
protein modifications (PTMs) and their contribution to blood cancer research. Blood cancer …

GTAC enables parallel genotyping of multiple genomic loci with chromatin accessibility profiling in single cells

S Turkalj, NA Jakobsen, A Groom, M Metzner, SG Riva… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Understanding clonal evolution and cancer development requires experimental approaches
for characterizing the consequences of somatic mutations on gene regulation. However, no …

Progress on the roles of MEF2C in neuropsychiatric diseases

Z Zhang, Y Zhao - Molecular brain, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Myocyte Enhancer Factor 2 C (MEF2C), one of the transcription factors of the MADS-
BOX family, is involved in embryonic brain development, neuronal formation and …