MicroRNAs as regulatory elements in immune system logic

A Mehta, D Baltimore - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2016 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are crucial post-transcriptional regulators of haematopoietic cell fate
decisions. They act by negatively regulating the expression of key immune development …

MYB oncoproteins: emerging players and potential therapeutic targets in human cancer

Y Cicirò, A Sala - Oncogenesis, 2021 - nature.com
MYB transcription factors are highly conserved from plants to vertebrates, indicating that
their functions embrace fundamental mechanisms in the biology of cells and organisms. In …

[HTML][HTML] MYB orchestrates T cell exhaustion and response to checkpoint inhibition

C Tsui, L Kretschmer, S Rapelius, SS Gabriel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells that respond to chronic viral infections or cancer are characterized by the
expression of inhibitory receptors such as programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and by …

The genetics and mechanisms of T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

L Belver, A Ferrando - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive haematological malignancy
derived from early T cell progenitors. In recent years genomic and transcriptomic studies …

An oncogenic super-enhancer formed through somatic mutation of a noncoding intergenic element

MR Mansour, BJ Abraham, L Anders, A Berezovskaya… - Science, 2014 - science.org
In certain human cancers, the expression of critical oncogenes is driven from large
regulatory elements, called super-enhancers, that recruit much of the cell's transcriptional …

Genetic alterations in uncommon low-grade neuroepithelial tumors: BRAF, FGFR1, and MYB mutations occur at high frequency and align with morphology

I Qaddoumi, W Orisme, J Wen, T Santiago, K Gupta… - Acta …, 2016 - Springer
Low-grade neuroepithelial tumors (LGNTs) are diverse CNS tumors presenting in children
and young adults, often with a history of epilepsy. While the genetic profiles of common …

The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers

R Beroukhim, CH Mermel, D Porter, G Wei… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
A powerful way to discover key genes with causal roles in oncogenesis is to identify
genomic regions that undergo frequent alteration in human cancers. Here we present high …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular basis of T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

P Van Vlierberghe, A Ferrando - The Journal of clinical …, 2012 - Am Soc Clin Investig
T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemias (T-ALLs) arise from the malignant transformation of
hematopoietic progenitors primed toward T cell development, as result of a multistep …

Redefining ALL classification: toward detecting high-risk ALL and implementing precision medicine

SP Hunger, CG Mullighan - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2015 - ashpublications.org
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the commonest childhood tumor and remains a
leading cause of cancer death in the young. In the last decade, microarray and sequencing …

Recurrent fusion of MYB and NFIB transcription factor genes in carcinomas of the breast and head and neck

M Persson, Y Andrén, J Mark… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The transcription factor gene MYB was identified recently as an oncogene that is
rearranged/duplicated in some human leukemias. Here we describe a new mechanism of …