Pioneer factors as master regulators of the epigenome and cell fate

A Balsalobre, J Drouin - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Pioneer factors are transcription factors with the unique ability to initiate opening of closed
chromatin. The stability of cell identity relies on robust mechanisms that maintain the …

Targeting the androgen signaling axis in prostate cancer

C Dai, SM Dehm, N Sharifi - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2023 - ascopubs.org
Activation of the androgen receptor (AR) and AR-driven transcriptional programs is central to
the pathophysiology of prostate cancer. Despite successful translational efforts in targeting …

Deep whole-genome ctDNA chronology of treatment-resistant prostate cancer

C Herberts, M Annala, J Sipola, SWS Ng, XE Chen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) in blood plasma is an emerging tool for clinical cancer
genoty** and longitudinal disease monitoring. However, owing to past emphasis on …

EZH2 inhibition activates a dsRNA–STING–interferon stress axis that potentiates response to PD-1 checkpoint blockade in prostate cancer

KL Morel, AV Sheahan, DL Burkhart, SC Baca… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Prostate cancers are considered to be immunologically 'cold'tumors given the very few
patients who respond to checkpoint inhibitor (CPI) therapy. Recently, enrichment of …

[HTML][HTML] Defining a cancer dependency map

A Tsherniak, F Vazquez, PG Montgomery, BA Weir… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Most human epithelial tumors harbor numerous alterations, making it difficult to predict
which genes are required for tumor survival. To systematically identify cancer dependencies …

The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer

SG Zhao, WS Chen, H Li, A Foye, M Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Although DNA methylation is a key regulator of gene expression, the comprehensive
methylation landscape of metastatic cancer has never been defined. Through whole …

Impact of cytosine methylation on DNA binding specificities of human transcription factors

Y Yin, E Morgunova, A Jolma, E Kaasinen, B Sahu… - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Nearly all cells in the human body share the same primary genome
sequence consisting of four nucleotide bases. One of the bases, cytosine, is commonly …

Integrated analyses highlight interactions between the three-dimensional genome and DNA, RNA and epigenomic alterations in metastatic prostate cancer

SG Zhao, M Bootsma, S Zhou, R Shrestha… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The impact of variations in the three-dimensional structure of the genome has been
recognized, but solid cancer tissue studies are limited. Here, we performed integrated deep …

Prostate cancer reactivates developmental epigenomic programs during metastatic progression

MM Pomerantz, X Qiu, Y Zhu, DY Takeda, W Pan… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Epigenetic processes govern prostate cancer (PCa) biology, as evidenced by the
dependency of PCa cells on the androgen receptor (AR), a prostate master transcription …

[HTML][HTML] Complexities of prostate cancer

S Wasim, SY Lee, J Kim - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Prostate cancer has a long disease history and a wide variety and uncertainty in individual
patients' clinical progress. In recent years, we have seen a revolutionary advance in both …