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    Suppression of heparan sulfation re-sensitizes YAP1-driven melanoma to MAPK pathway inhibitors

    Accumulating evidence identifies non-genetic mechanisms substantially contributing to drug resistance in cancer patients. Preclinical and clinical data implicate the transcriptional co-activators YAP1 and its ...

    Sebastian M. Dieter, Domenica Lovecchio, Abhijeet Pataskar, Martina K. Zowada in Oncogene (2022)

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    A comprehensive enhancer screen identifies TRAM2 as a key and novel mediator of YAP oncogenesis

    Frequent activation of the co-transcriptional factor YAP is observed in a large number of solid tumors. Activated YAP associates with enhancer loci via TEAD4-DNA-binding protein and stimulates cancer aggressiv...

    Li Li, Alejandro P. Ugalde, Colinda L. G. J. Scheele, Sebastian M. Dieter in Genome Biology (2021)

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    Pan-cancer analysis of somatic copy-number alterations implicates IRS4 and IGF2 in enhancer hijacking

    Hanno Glimm, Jan Korbel and colleagues present a computational framework called cis expression structural alteration map** (CESAM), which they use to identify somatic copy-number alterations affecting cis-regul...

    Joachim Weischenfeldt, Taronish Dubash, Alexandros P Drainas in Nature Genetics (2017)