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ReviewBioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology2016

Targeting MYC in cancer therapy: RNA processing offers new opportunities.

Cheryl M Koh, Arianna Sabò, Ernesto Guccione

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Review in BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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48citing papers in PubMed
5.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Targeting Transcription Factors in Cancer: From "Undruggable" to "Druggable".Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Cheryl M KohInstitute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore.
Arianna SabòCenter for Genomic Science of IIT@SEMM, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Milan, Italy.
Ernesto GuccioneInstitute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore.
Agency for Science, Technology and Research · SGItalian Institute of Technology · IT

Funding

Worldwide Cancer Research 15-1260
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MYC is a transcription factor, which not only directly modulates multiple aspects of transcription and co-transcriptional processing (e.g. RNA-Polymerase II initiation, elongation, and mRNA capping), but also indirectly influences several steps of RNA metabolism, including both constitutive and alternative splicing, mRNA stability, and translation efficiency. As MYC is an oncoprotein whose expression is deregulated in multiple human cancers, identifying its critical downstream activities in tumors is of key importance for designing effective therapeutic strategies. With this knowledge and recent technological advances, we now have multiple angles to reach the goal of targeting MYC in tumors, ranging from the direct reduction of MYC levels, to the dampening of selected house-keeping functions in MYC-overexpressing cells, to more targeted approaches based on MYC-induced secondary effects.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsGene ExpressionHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyNeoplasmsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mycRNA, MessengerRNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalAntineoplastic AgentsMYC protein, humanProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mycRNA, Messengercancer therapyMYCpost-transcriptional regulationRNAsplicingsynthetic lethalitytranscription

Identifiers

PMID26778668
PMCPMC4819695
OpenAlexW2302330708

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