The regulation, functions and clinical relevance of arginine methylation

E Guccione, S Richard - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Methylation of arginine residues by protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) is involved
in the regulation of fundamental cellular processes, including transcription, RNA processing …

Applications of patient-derived tumor xenograft models and tumor organoids

GJ Yoshida - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2020 - Springer
Patient-derived tumor xenografts (PDXs), in which tumor fragments surgically dissected from
cancer patients are directly transplanted into immunodeficient mice, have emerged as a …

Next-generation characterization of the cancer cell line encyclopedia

M Ghandi, FW Huang, J Jané-Valbuena, GV Kryukov… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Large panels of comprehensively characterized human cancer models, including the
Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE), have provided a rigorous framework with which to …

RNA splicing dysregulation and the hallmarks of cancer

RK Bradley, O Anczuków - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Dysregulated RNA splicing is a molecular feature that characterizes almost all tumour types.
Cancer-associated splicing alterations arise from both recurrent mutations and altered …

Robust gene expression programs underlie recurrent cell states and phenotype switching in melanoma

J Wouters, Z Kalender-Atak, L Minnoye, KI Spanier… - Nature Cell …, 2020 - nature.com
Melanoma cells can switch between a melanocytic and a mesenchymal-like state. Scattered
evidence indicates that additional intermediate state (s) may exist. Here, to search for such …

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 …

Splice-switching antisense oligonucleotides as therapeutic drugs

MA Havens, ML Hastings - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Splice-switching oligonucleotides (SSOs) are short, synthetic, antisense, modified nucleic
acids that base-pair with a pre-mRNA and disrupt the normal splicing repertoire of the …

Alternative splicing and isoforms: from mechanisms to diseases

Q Liu, L Fang, C Wu - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alternative splicing of pre-mRNA is a key mechanism for increasing the complexity of
proteins in humans, causing a diversity of expression of transcriptomes and proteomes in a …

Dual inhibition of MDMX and MDM2 as a therapeutic strategy in leukemia

LA Carvajal, DB Neriah, A Senecal, L Benard… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
The tumor suppressor p53 is often inactivated via its interaction with endogenous inhibitors
mouse double minute 4 homolog (MDM4 or MDMX) or mouse double minute 2 homolog …

RNA splicing and disease: animal models to therapies

M Montes, BL Sanford, DF Comiskey, DS Chandler - Trends in Genetics, 2019 - cell.com
Alternative splicing of pre-mRNA increases genetic diversity, and recent studies estimate
that most human multiexon genes are alternatively spliced. If this process is not highly …