Alternative‐splicing defects in cancer: Splicing regulators and their downstream targets, guiding the way to novel cancer therapeutics

LM Urbanski, N Leclair… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Defects in alternative splicing are frequently found in human tumors and result either from
mutations in splicing‐regulatory elements of specific cancer genes or from changes in the …

Regulatory networks defining EMT during cancer initiation and progression

BD Craene, G Berx - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2013 - nature.com
Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is essential for driving plasticity during
development, but is an unintentional behaviour of cells during cancer progression. The EMT …

Aberrant RNA splicing in cancer; expression changes and driver mutations of splicing factor genes

A Sveen, S Kilpinen, A Ruusulehto, RA Lothe… - Oncogene, 2016 - nature.com
Alternative splicing is a widespread process contributing to structural transcript variation and
proteome diversity. In cancer, the splicing process is commonly disrupted, resulting in both …

Personal omics profiling reveals dynamic molecular and medical phenotypes

R Chen, GI Mias, J Li-Pook-Than, L Jiang, HYK Lam… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Personalized medicine is expected to benefit from combining genomic information with
regular monitoring of physiological states by multiple high-throughput methods. Here, we …

Rbfox proteins regulate alternative mRNA splicing through evolutionarily conserved RNA bridges

MT Lovci, D Ghanem, H Marr, J Arnold, S Gee… - Nature structural & …, 2013 - nature.com
Alternative splicing (AS) enables programmed diversity of gene expression across tissues
and development. We show here that binding in distal intronic regions (> 500 nucleotides …

EMT as the ultimate survival mechanism of cancer cells

N Tiwari, A Gheldof, M Tatari, G Christofori - Seminars in cancer biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Epithelial cancers make up the vast majority of cancer types and, during the transition from
benign adenoma to malignant carcinoma and metastasis, epithelial tumor cells acquire a de …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative genome-wide analysis reveals cooperative regulation of alternative splicing by hnRNP proteins

SC Huelga, AQ Vu, JD Arnold, TY Liang, PP Liu… - Cell reports, 2012 - cell.com
Understanding how RNA binding proteins control the splicing code is fundamental to human
biology and disease. Here, we present a comprehensive study to elucidate how …

An EMT–driven alternative splicing program occurs in human breast cancer and modulates cellular phenotype

IM Shapiro, AW Cheng, NC Flytzanis, M Balsamo… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a mechanism important for embryonic
development, plays a critical role during malignant transformation. While much is known …

The receptor AXL diversifies EGFR signaling and limits the response to EGFR-targeted inhibitors in triple-negative breast cancer cells

AS Meyer, MA Miller, FB Gertler, DA Lauffenburger - Science signaling, 2013 - science.org
The relationship between drug resistance, changes in signaling, and emergence of an
invasive phenotype is well appreciated, but the underlying mechanisms are not well …

Modeling precision treatment of breast cancer

A Daemen, OL Griffith, LM Heiser, NJ Wang… - Genome biology, 2013 - Springer
Background First-generation molecular profiles for human breast cancers have enabled the
identification of features that can predict therapeutic response; however, little is known about …