Genetics and biology of prostate cancer

G Wang, D Zhao, DJ Spring… - Genes & …, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Despite the high long-term survival in localized prostate cancer, metastatic prostate cancer
remains largely incurable even after intensive multimodal therapy. The lethality of advanced …

TRIM family proteins: roles in autophagy, immunity, and carcinogenesis

S Hatakeyama - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2017 - cell.com
Tripartite motif (TRIM) family proteins, most of which have E3 ubiquitin ligase activities, have
various functions in cellular processes including intracellular signaling, development …

The long tail of oncogenic drivers in prostate cancer

J Armenia, SAM Wankowicz, D Liu, J Gao, R Kundra… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Comprehensive genomic characterization of prostate cancer has identified recurrent
alterations in genes involved in androgen signaling, DNA repair, and PI3K signaling, among …

Modulation of M2 macrophage polarization by the crosstalk between Stat6 and Trim24

T Yu, S Gan, Q Zhu, D Dai, N Li, H Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Stat6 is known to drive macrophage M2 polarization. However, how macrophage
polarization is fine-tuned by Stat6 is poorly understood. Here, we find that Lys383 of Stat6 is …

Marked for death: targeting epigenetic changes in cancer

SX Pfister, A Ashworth - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2017 - nature.com
In the past few years, it has become clear that mutations in epigenetic regulatory genes are
common in human cancers. Therapeutic strategies are now being developed to target …

NSD2 is a requisite subunit of the AR/FOXA1 neo-enhanceosome in promoting prostate tumorigenesis

A Parolia, S Eyunni, BK Verma, E Young, Y Liu, L Liu… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Androgen receptor (AR) is a ligand-responsive transcription factor that drives terminal
differentiation of the prostatic luminal epithelia. By contrast, in tumors originating from these …

Functional TRIM24 degrader via conjugation of ineffectual bromodomain and VHL ligands

LN Gechijian, DL Buckley, MA Lawlor… - Nature chemical …, 2018 - nature.com
The addressable pocket of a protein is often not functionally relevant in disease. This is true
for the multidomain, bromodomain-containing transcriptional regulator TRIM24. TRIM24 has …

The lncRNA PVT1 regulates nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell proliferation via activating the KAT2A acetyltransferase and stabilizing HIF-1α

Y Wang, W Chen, J Lian, H Zhang, B Yu… - Cell Death & …, 2020 - nature.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in regulating the development and
progression of many cancers. However, the clinical significance of specific lncRNAs in the …

In vivo CRISPR screens identify the E3 ligase Cop1 as a modulator of macrophage infiltration and cancer immunotherapy target

X Wang, C Tokheim, SS Gu, B Wang, Q Tang, Y Li… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Despite remarkable clinical efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) in cancer
treatment, ICB benefits for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remain limited. Through …

Loss and revival of androgen receptor signaling in advanced prostate cancer

N Formaggio, MA Rubin, JP Theurillat - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
Targeting the androgen receptor (AR) signaling axis has been, over decades, the mainstay
of prostate cancer therapy. More potent inhibitors of androgen synthesis and antiandrogens …