Therapeutic targeting of “undruggable” MYC

V Llombart, MR Mansour - EBioMedicine, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary c-MYC controls global gene expression and regulates cell proliferation, cell
differentiation, cell cycle, metabolism and apoptosis. According to some estimates, MYC is …

Protein arginine methylation: from enigmatic functions to therapeutic targeting

Q Wu, M Schapira, CH Arrowsmith… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) are emerging as attractive therapeutic targets.
PRMTs regulate transcription, splicing, RNA biology, the DNA damage response and cell …

Roles and mechanisms of alternative splicing in cancer—implications for care

SC Bonnal, I López-Oreja, J Valcárcel - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Removal of introns from messenger RNA precursors (pre-mRNA splicing) is an essential
step for the expression of most eukaryotic genes. Alternative splicing enables the regulated …

The regulation, functions and clinical relevance of arginine methylation

E Guccione, S Richard - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Methylation of arginine residues by protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) is involved
in the regulation of fundamental cellular processes, including transcription, RNA processing …

Alternative approaches to target Myc for cancer treatment

C Wang, J Zhang, J Yin, Y Gan, S Xu, Y Gu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
The Myc proto-oncogene family consists of three members, C-MYC, MYCN, and MYCL,
which encodes the transcription factor c-Myc (hereafter Myc), N-Myc, and L-Myc …

RNA splicing dysregulation and the hallmarks of cancer

RK Bradley, O Anczuków - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Dysregulated RNA splicing is a molecular feature that characterizes almost all tumour types.
Cancer-associated splicing alterations arise from both recurrent mutations and altered …

Noncoding translation mitigation

JS Kesner, Z Chen, P Shi, AO Aparicio, MR Murphy… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Translation is pervasive outside of canonical coding regions, occurring in long noncoding
RNAs, canonical untranslated regions and introns,,–, especially in ageing …

Target gene-independent functions of MYC oncoproteins

A Baluapuri, E Wolf, M Eilers - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020 - nature.com
Oncoproteins of the MYC family are major drivers of human tumorigenesis. Since a large
body of evidence indicates that MYC proteins are transcription factors, studying their function …

RNA mis-splicing in disease

MM Scotti, MS Swanson - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
The human transcriptome is composed of a vast RNA population that undergoes further
diversification by splicing. Detecting specific splice sites in this large sequence pool is the …

[HTML][HTML] The role of alternative splicing in cancer: From oncogenesis to drug resistance

R Sciarrillo, A Wojtuszkiewicz, YG Assaraf… - Drug Resistance …, 2020 - Elsevier
Alternative splicing is a tightly regulated process whereby non-coding sequences of pre-
mRNA are removed and protein-coding segments are assembled in diverse combinations …