Recent advances in the developmental origin of neuroblastoma: an overview

M Ponzoni, T Bachetti, MV Corrias, C Brignole… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Neuroblastoma (NB) is a pediatric tumor that originates from neural crest-derived cells
undergoing a defective differentiation due to genomic and epigenetic impairments …

Pharmacological targeting of the cancer epigenome

NW Mabe, JA Perry, CF Malone, K Stegmaier - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Epigenetic dysregulation is increasingly appreciated as a hallmark of cancer, including
disease initiation, maintenance and therapy resistance. As a result, there have been …

MYCN mediates cysteine addiction and sensitizes neuroblastoma to ferroptosis

H Alborzinia, AF Flórez, S Kreth, LM Brückner, U Yildiz… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Aberrant expression of MYC transcription factor family members predicts poor clinical
outcome in many human cancers. Oncogenic MYC profoundly alters metabolism and …

Single-cell transcriptomic analyses provide insights into the developmental origins of neuroblastoma

S Jansky, AK Sharma, V Körber, A Quintero… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Neuroblastoma is a pediatric tumor of the developing sympathetic nervous system.
However, the cellular origin of neuroblastoma has yet to be defined. Here we studied the …

EP300 Selectively Controls the Enhancer Landscape of MYCN-Amplified Neuroblastoma

AD Durbin, T Wang, VK Wimalasena, MW Zimmerman… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Gene expression is regulated by promoters and enhancers marked by histone H3 lysine 27
acetylation (H3K27ac), which is established by the paralogous histone acetyltransferases …

Transition to a mesenchymal state in neuroblastoma confers resistance to anti-GD2 antibody via reduced expression of ST8SIA1

NW Mabe, M Huang, GN Dalton, G Alexe, DA Schaefer… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Immunotherapy with anti-GD2 antibodies has advanced the treatment of children with high-
risk neuroblastoma, but nearly half of patients relapse, and little is known about mechanisms …

Reversible transitions between noradrenergic and mesenchymal tumor identities define cell plasticity in neuroblastoma

C Thirant, A Peltier, S Durand, A Kramdi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Noradrenergic and mesenchymal identities have been characterized in neuroblastoma cell
lines according to their epigenetic landscapes and core regulatory circuitries. However, their …

Neuroblastoma heterogeneity, plasticity, and emerging therapies

KI Lundberg, D Treis, JI Johnsen - Current Oncology Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The evolving information of the initiation, tumor cell
heterogeneity, and plasticity of childhood neuroblastoma has opened up new perspectives …

[HTML][HTML] Tumoral heterogeneity in neuroblastoma

RL Gomez, S Ibragimova, R Ramachandran… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2022 - Elsevier
Neuroblastoma is a solid, neuroendocrine tumor with divergent clinical behavior ranging
from asymptomatic to fatal. The diverse clinical presentations of neuroblastoma are directly …

SOX11 regulates SWI/SNF complex components as member of the adrenergic neuroblastoma core regulatory circuitry

B Decaesteker, A Louwagie, S Loontiens… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The pediatric extra-cranial tumor neuroblastoma displays a low mutational burden while
recurrent copy number alterations are present in most high-risk cases. Here, we identify …