Liquid–liquid phase separation drives cellular function and dysfunction in cancer

S Mehta, J Zhang - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer is a disease of uncontrollably reproducing cells. It is governed by biochemical
pathways that have escaped the regulatory bounds of normal homeostatic balance. This …

Mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes: emerging mechanisms and therapeutic strategies

RC Centore, GJ Sandoval, LMM Soares, C Kadoch… - Trends in Genetics, 2020 - cell.com
Small molecule-based targeting of chromatin regulatory factors has emerged as a promising
therapeutic strategy in recent years. The development and ongoing clinical evaluation of …

Ewing sarcoma

TGP Grünewald, F Cidre-Aranaz, D Surdez… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2018 - nature.com
Ewing sarcoma is the second most frequent bone tumour of childhood and adolescence that
can also arise in soft tissue. Ewing sarcoma is a highly aggressive cancer, with a survival of …

Sarcoma treatment in the era of molecular medicine

TGP Grünewald, M Alonso, S Avnet… - EMBO molecular …, 2020 - embopress.org
Sarcomas are heterogeneous and clinically challenging soft tissue and bone cancers.
Although constituting only 1% of all human malignancies, sarcomas represent the second …

Multimodal analysis of cell-free DNA whole-genome sequencing for pediatric cancers with low mutational burden

P Peneder, AM Stütz, D Surdez, M Krumbholz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Sequencing of cell-free DNA in the blood of cancer patients (liquid biopsy) provides
attractive opportunities for early diagnosis, assessment of treatment response, and minimally …

Ewing's sarcoma

N Riggi, ML Suvà, I Stamenkovic - New England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Ewing's Sarcoma Ewing's sarcoma, an aggressive cancer of bone and soft tissue, primarily
affects children and young adults. A t (11; 22) translocation is noted in 85 to 90% of cases …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo CD8+ T cell CRISPR screening reveals control by Fli1 in infection and cancer

Z Chen, E Arai, O Khan, Z Zhang, SF Ngiow, Y He… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Improving effector activity of antigen-specific T cells is a major goal in cancer
immunotherapy. Despite the identification of several effector T cell (T EFF)-driving …

Rapid and direct control of target protein levels with VHL-recruiting dTAG molecules

B Nabet, FM Ferguson, BKA Seong, M Kuljanin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Chemical biology strategies for directly perturbing protein homeostasis including the
degradation tag (dTAG) system provide temporal advantages over genetic approaches and …

EWS–FLI1 increases transcription to cause R-loops and block BRCA1 repair in Ewing sarcoma

A Gorthi, JC Romero, E Loranc, L Cao, LA Lawrence… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Ewing sarcoma is an aggressive paediatric cancer of the bone and soft tissue. It results from
a chromosomal translocation, predominantly t (11; 22)(q24: q12), that fuses the N-terminal …

Chromatin accessibility profiling methods

L Minnoye, GK Marinov, T Krausgruber, L Pan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Chromatin accessibility, or the physical access to chromatinized DNA, is a widely studied
characteristic of the eukaryotic genome. As active regulatory DNA elements are generally …