Neuronal and tumourigenic boundaries of glioblastoma plasticity

MI De Silva, BW Stringer, C Bardy - Trends in cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) remains the most lethal primary brain cancer largely due to recurrence
of treatment-resistant disease. Current therapies are ultimately ineffective as GBM tumour …

βIII-tubulin gene regulation in health and disease

AMP Duly, FCL Kao, WS Teo… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Microtubule proteins form a dynamic component of the cytoskeleton, and play key roles in
cellular processes, such as vesicular transport, cell motility and mitosis. Expression of …

[HTML][HTML] A Cuproptosis Activation Scoring model predicts neoplasm-immunity interactions and personalized treatments in glioma

B Chen, X Zhou, L Yang, H Zhou, M Meng… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Gliomas are malignant tumors in the central nervous system. Cuproptosis is a newly
discovered cell death mechanism targeting lipoylated tricarboxylic acid cycle proteins …

Ascl1 and Ngn2 convert mouse embryonic stem cells to neurons via functionally distinct paths

G Vainorius, M Novatchkova, G Michlits… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ascl1 and Ngn2, closely related proneural transcription factors, are able to convert mouse
embryonic stem cells into induced neurons. Despite their similarities, these factors elicit only …

Transcription factors ASCL1 and OLIG2 drive glioblastoma initiation and co-regulate tumor cell types and migration

BL Myers, KJ Brayer, LE Paez-Beltran… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Glioblastomas (GBMs) are highly aggressive, infiltrative, and heterogeneous brain tumors
driven by complex genetic alterations. The basic-helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription …

The proneural transcription factor ASCL1 regulates cell proliferation and primes for differentiation in neuroblastoma

LM Parkinson, SL Gillen, LM Woods… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Neuroblastoma is believed to arise from sympathetic neuroblast precursors that fail to
engage the neuronal differentiation programme, but instead become locked in a pro …

Ascl1 phospho-site mutations enhance neuronal conversion of adult cortical astrocytes in vivo

H Ghazale, EJ Park, L Vasan, J Mester… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Direct neuronal reprogramming, the process whereby a terminally differentiated cell is
converted into an induced neuron without traversing a pluripotent state, has tremendous …

Phospho-regulation of ASCL1-mediated chromatin opening during cellular reprogramming

R Azzarelli, S Gillen, F Connor… - …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
The proneural transcription factor ASCL1 regulates neurogenesis and drives somatic cell
reprogramming into neurons. However, not all cell types can be reprogrammed by ASCL1 …

Insights into the multi-faceted role of Pioneer transcription factors in glioma formation and progression with targeting options

AI Giannopoulou, DS Kanakoglou… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pioneer transcription factors (TFs) present an important subtype of transcription factors
which are vital for cell programming during embryonic development and cellular memory …

Modeling Brain Tumors: A Perspective Overview of in vivo and Organoid Models

F Antonica, G Aiello, A Soldano, L Abballe… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Brain tumors are a large and heterogeneous group of neoplasms that affect the central
nervous system and include some of the deadliest cancers. Almost all the conventional and …