Targeting transcription factors in cancer—from undruggable to reality

JH Bushweller - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Mutated or dysregulated transcription factors represent a unique class of drug targets that
mediate aberrant gene expression, including blockade of differentiation and cell death gene …

Ets ternary complex transcription factors

G Buchwalter, C Gross, B Wasylyk - Gene, 2004 - Elsevier
The three ternary complex factors (TCFs) Elk-1, Net and Sap-1 form a subfamily of the E
twenty-six (Ets) domain transcription factors. Their characteristic property is the ability to form …

Optogenetic engineering to probe the molecular choreography of STIM1-mediated cell signaling

G Ma, L He, S Liu, J **e, Z Huang, J **g… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genetically encoded photoswitches have enabled spatial and temporal control of cellular
events to achieve tailored functions in living cells, but their applications to probe the …

Autoinhibitory domains: modular effectors of cellular regulation

MA Pufall, BJ Graves - Annual review of cell and developmental …, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Autoinhibitory domains are regions of proteins that negatively regulate the function
of other domains via intramolecular interactions. Autoinhibition is a potent regulatory …

Regulation of Ets function by protein–protein interactions

R Li, H Pei, DK Watson - Oncogene, 2000 - nature.com
Ets proteins are a family of transcription factors that share an 85 amino acid conserved DNA
binding domain, the ETS domain. Over 25 mammalian Ets family members control important …

Molecular mechanisms of ETS transcription factor-mediated tumorigenesis

A Kar, A Gutierrez-Hartmann - Critical reviews in biochemistry and …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The E26 transformation-specific (ETS) family of transcription factors is critical for
development, differentiation, proliferation and also has a role in apoptosis and tissue …

Expression of functional chemokine receptors CXCR3 and CXCR4 on human melanoma cells

MM Robledo, RA Bartolomé, N Longo… - Journal of Biological …, 2001 - jbc.org
Chemokines are secreted into the tumor microenvironment by tumor-infiltrating inflammatory
cells as well as by tumor cells. Chemokine receptors mediate agonist-dependent cell …

Phosphorylation represses Ets-1 DNA binding by reinforcing autoinhibition

DO Cowley, BJ Graves - Genes & development, 2000 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Phosphorylation of transcription factors is a key link between cell signaling and the control of
gene expression. Here we report that phosphorylation regulates DNA binding of the Ets-1 …

Auto-inhibition and partner proteins, core-binding factor β (CBFβ) and Ets-1, modulate DNA binding by CBFα2 (AML1)

TL Gu, TL Goetz, BJ Graves… - Molecular and cellular …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
Core-binding factor α2 (CBFα2; otherwise known as AML1 or PEBP2αB) is a DNA-binding
subunit in the family of core-binding factors (CBFs), heterodimeric transcription factors that …

When Ets transcription factors meet their partners

A Verger, M Duterque‐Coquillaud - Bioessays, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Ets proteins are a family of transcription factors that regulate the expression of a myriad of
genes in a variety of tissues and cell types. This functional versatility emerges from their …