Activation of human endogenous retroviruses and its physiological consequences

N Dopkins, DF Nixon - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are abundant sequences that persist within the
human genome as remnants of ancient retroviral infections. These sequences became fixed …

Liquid–liquid phase separation in tumor biology

X Tong, R Tang, J Xu, W Wang, Y Zhao, X Yu… - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a novel principle for explaining the precise spatial
and temporal regulation in living cells. LLPS compartmentalizes proteins and nucleic acids …

Spatial transcriptomics reveals niche-specific enrichment and vulnerabilities of radial glial stem-like cells in malignant gliomas

Y Ren, Z Huang, L Zhou, P **ao, J Song, P He… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Diffuse midline glioma-H3K27M mutant (DMG) and glioblastoma (GBM) are the most lethal
brain tumors that primarily occur in pediatric and adult patients, respectively. Both tumors …

Neoantigens: promising targets for cancer therapy

N **e, G Shen, W Gao, Z Huang, C Huang… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advances in neoantigen research have accelerated the development and regulatory
approval of tumor immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, adoptive cell therapy and …

Genome organization around nuclear speckles drives mRNA splicing efficiency

P Bhat, A Chow, B Emert, O Ettlin, SA Quinodoz… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The nucleus is highly organized, such that factors involved in the transcription and
processing of distinct classes of RNA are confined within specific nuclear bodies,. One …

Biomolecular condensates and cancer

A Boija, IA Klein, RA Young - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Malignant transformation is characterized by dysregulation of diverse cellular processes that
have been the subject of detailed genetic, biochemical, and structural studies, but only …

RNA: the unsuspected conductor in the orchestra of macromolecular crowding

E Zacco, L Broglia, M Kurihara, M Monti… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
This comprehensive Review delves into the chemical principles governing RNA-mediated
crowding events, commonly referred to as granules or biological condensates. We explore …

Aberrant Cyclin D1 splicing in cancer: from molecular mechanism to therapeutic modulation

J Wang, W Su, T Zhang, S Zhang, H Lei, F Ma… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Cyclin D1 (CCND1), a crucial mediator of cell cycle progression, possesses many
mutation types with different mutation frequencies in human cancers. The G870A mutation is …

Advancing nanotechnology for neoantigen-based cancer theranostics

J Zou, Y Zhang, Y Pan, Z Mao, X Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Neoantigens play a pivotal role in the field of tumour therapy, encompassing the stimulation
of anti-tumour immune response and the enhancement of tumour targeting capability …

[HTML][HTML] Nanovaccines: an effective therapeutic approach for cancer therapy

S Gurunathan, P Thangaraj, L Wang, Q Cao… - Biomedicine & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cancer vaccines hold considerable promise for the immunotherapy of solid tumors.
Nanomedicine offers several strategies for enhancing vaccine effectiveness. In particular …