Targeting synthetic lethal paralogs in cancer

CJ Ryan, I Mehta, N Kebabci, DJ Adams - Trends in Cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Synthetic lethal interactions, where mutation of one gene renders cells sensitive to inhibition
of another gene, can be exploited for the development of targeted therapeutics in cancer …

Nuclear transport proteins: Structure, function, and disease relevance

Y Yang, L Guo, L Chen, B Gong, D Jia… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Proper subcellular localization is crucial for the functioning of biomacromolecules, including
proteins and RNAs. Nuclear transport is a fundamental cellular process that regulates the …

The ETS transcription factor ETV6 constrains the transcriptional activity of EWS–FLI to promote Ewing sarcoma

DY Lu, JM Ellegast, KN Ross, CF Malone, S Lin… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Transcription factors (TFs) are frequently mutated in cancer. Paediatric cancers exhibit few
mutations genome-wide but frequently harbour sentinel mutations that affect TFs, which …

Building a translational cancer dependency map for The Cancer Genome Atlas

X Shi, C Gekas, D Verduzco, S Petiwala, C Jeffries… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer dependency maps have accelerated the discovery of tumor vulnerabilities that can
be exploited as drug targets when translatable to patients. The Cancer Genome Atlas …

VRK1 is a synthetic–lethal target in VRK2-deficient glioblastoma

JA Shields, SR Meier, M Bandi, EE Mulkearns-Hubert… - Cancer Research, 2022 - AACR
Synthetic lethality is a genetic interaction that results in cell death when two genetic
deficiencies co-occur but not when either deficiency occurs alone, which can be co-opted for …

Systematic profiling of conditional degron tag technologies for target validation studies

DP Bondeson, Z Mullin-Bernstein, S Oliver… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Conditional degron tags (CDTs) are a powerful tool for target validation that combines the
kinetics and reversible action of pharmacological agents with the generalizability of genetic …

Developmental origins shape the paediatric cancer genome

X Chen, W Yang, CWM Roberts, J Zhang - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
In the past two decades, technological advances have brought unprecedented insights into
the paediatric cancer genome revealing characteristics distinct from those of adult cancer …

Paralog-based synthetic lethality: rationales and applications

Y Xin, Y Zhang - Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Tumor cells can result from gene mutations and over-expression. Synthetic lethality (SL)
offers a desirable setting where cancer cells bearing one mutated gene of an SL gene pair …

The KAT module of the SAGA complex maintains the oncogenic gene expression program in MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma

CF Malone, NW Mabe, AB Forman, G Alexe… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Pediatric cancers are frequently driven by genomic alterations that result in aberrant
transcription factor activity. Here, we used functional genomic screens to identify multiple …

Collateral lethality between HDAC1 and HDAC2 exploits cancer-specific NuRD complex vulnerabilities

Y Zhang, D Remillard, U Onubogu… - Nature structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
Transcriptional co-regulators have been widely pursued as targets for disrupting oncogenic
gene regulatory programs. However, many proteins in this target class are universally …