CRISPR in cancer biology and therapy

A Katti, BJ Diaz, CM Caragine, NE Sanjana… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, CRISPR has become as much a verb as it is an acronym,
transforming biomedical research and providing entirely new approaches for dissecting all …

Targeting TGF-β signal transduction for fibrosis and cancer therapy

D Peng, M Fu, M Wang, Y Wei, X Wei - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) has long been identified with its intensive involvement
in early embryonic development and organogenesis, immune supervision, tissue repair, and …

Analyses of non-coding somatic drivers in 2,658 cancer whole genomes

E Rheinbay, MM Nielsen, F Abascal, JA Wala… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The discovery of drivers of cancer has traditionally focused on protein-coding genes,,–. Here
we present analyses of driver point mutations and structural variants in non-coding regions …

Epigenetic therapies for cancer

SE Bates - New England Journal of Medicine, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
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Non-coding driver mutations in human cancer

K Elliott, E Larsson - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Tumour formation involves random mutagenic events and positive evolutionary selection
acting on a subset of such events, referred to as driver mutations. A decade of careful …

Genome-wide analysis of somatic noncoding mutation patterns in cancer

F Dietlein, AB Wang, C Fagre, A Tang, NJM Besselink… - Science, 2022 - science.org
We established a genome-wide compendium of somatic mutation events in 3949 whole
cancer genomes representing 19 tumor types. Protein-coding events captured well …

CTCF shapes chromatin structure and gene expression in health and disease

B Dehingia, M Milewska, M Janowski, A Pękowska - EMBO reports, 2022 - embopress.org
CCCTC‐binding factor (CTCF) is an eleven zinc finger (ZF), multivalent transcriptional
regulator, that recognizes numerous motifs thanks to the deployment of distinct combinations …

Structural variations in cancer and the 3D genome

F Dubois, N Sidiropoulos, J Weischenfeldt… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Structural variations (SVs) affect more of the cancer genome than any other type of somatic
genetic alteration but difficulties in detecting and interpreting them have limited our …

Guadecitabine plus ipilimumab in unresectable melanoma: five-year follow-up and integrated multi-omic analysis in the phase 1b NIBIT-M4 trial

TMR Noviello, AM Di Giacomo, FP Caruso… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Association with hypomethylating agents is a promising strategy to improve the efficacy of
immune checkpoint inhibitors-based therapy. The NIBIT-M4 was a phase Ib, dose-escalation …

Cancer-specific CTCF binding facilitates oncogenic transcriptional dysregulation

C Fang, Z Wang, C Han, SL Safgren, KA Helmin… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Background The three-dimensional genome organization is critical for gene regulation and
can malfunction in diseases like cancer. As a key regulator of genome organization, CCCTC …