Liquid–liquid phase separation in human health and diseases

B Wang, L Zhang, T Dai, Z Qin, H Lu, L Zhang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Emerging evidence suggests that liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) represents a vital
and ubiquitous phenomenon underlying the formation of membraneless organelles in …

The COSMIC Cancer Gene Census: describing genetic dysfunction across all human cancers

Z Sondka, S Bamford, CG Cole, SA Ward… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC) Cancer Gene Census
(CGC) is an expert-curated description of the genes driving human cancer that is used as a …

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 …

Cyclin D–CDK4 kinase destabilizes PD-L1 via cullin 3–SPOP to control cancer immune surveillance

J Zhang, X Bu, H Wang, Y Zhu, Y Geng, NT Nihira… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Treatments that target immune checkpoints, such as the one mediated by programmed cell
death protein 1 (PD-1) and its ligand PD-L1, have been approved for treating human …

Cancer mutations of the tumor suppressor SPOP disrupt the formation of active, phase-separated compartments

JJ Bouchard, JH Otero, DC Scott, E Szulc, EW Martin… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Mutations in the tumor suppressor SPOP (speckle-type POZ protein) cause prostate, breast,
and other solid tumors. SPOP is a substrate adaptor of the cullin3-RING ubiquitin ligase and …

Ubiquitin ligases in oncogenic transformation and cancer therapy

D Senft, J Qi, ZA Ronai - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
The cellular response to external stress signals and DNA damage depends on the activity of
ubiquitin ligases (E3s), which regulate numerous cellular processes, including homeostasis …

Prostate cancer–associated SPOP mutations confer resistance to BET inhibitors through stabilization of BRD4

X Dai, W Gan, X Li, S Wang, W Zhang, L Huang… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
The bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) family of proteins comprises four members—
BRD2, BRD3, BRD4 and the testis-specific isoform BRDT—that largely function as …

Structural variations in cancer and the 3D genome

F Dubois, N Sidiropoulos, J Weischenfeldt… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Structural variations (SVs) affect more of the cancer genome than any other type of somatic
genetic alteration but difficulties in detecting and interpreting them have limited our …

Ubiquitination: Friend and foe in cancer

MA Mansour - The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Dynamic modulation and posttranslational modification of proteins are tightly controlled
biological processes that occur in response to physiological cues. One such dynamic …

SPOP mutation drives prostate tumorigenesis in vivo through coordinate regulation of PI3K/mTOR and AR signaling

M Blattner, D Liu, BD Robinson, D Huang, A Poliakov… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Recurrent point mutations in SPOP define a distinct molecular subclass of prostate cancer.
Here, we describe a mouse model showing that mutant SPOP drives prostate tumorigenesis …