Our latest paper describing a role for SCAF1 in promoting RNAPII elongation is online at Nucleic Acids Research @NAR_Open! Check it out here: https://t.co/zmECC5yxRS. Big thanks to collaborators @erhard_lab, @MYCGyvers and AG Schlosser!
Our new manuscript has been published in eLife. We describe a new method for identifying suitable E3 ligases for PROTACs. Many thanks to everyone involved. https://t.co/FwBn73NmuA
Out now: Our collaborative #Golgi#glycotime story, which shows (i) that B4GALT5, a Golgi enzyme, is subject to M6P tagging and (ii) that GOLPH3/GOLPH3L stabilize LYSET and the GlcNAc-phosphotranferase complex and thus are crucial to cellular M6P tagging. https://t.co/zUiMMlYsWf
I have written a concise review on chromatin transcription as part of the @JMolBiol special issue on transcription elongation. Check it out!
https://t.co/3T5ESqSh0l
We congratulate Michaela Reissland and the whole team in Markus Diefenbacher's lab on their new paper in Oncogene. In the study, they were able to demonstrate the role of USP10 in Wnt signalling in colorectal cancer models. Thank you for the opportunity to contribute.
PhDone ✅
@EingLorenz finally defended his defense. After his PhD in the @_WolfLab he is now working as a Postdoc in our Lab! Fantastic defense and as always a good party afterwards!
Graduate students and postdocs interested in PROTACs and Glues: Register for the AEK workshop November 4-6 in Berlin with outstanding international speakers: https://t.co/wG6QZZQWAU
Congratulations to the amazing team at @Nurix_Tx for the continued success of their brain-penetrant BTK degrader in the clinic!
https://t.co/LQD04r9mvm
More than happy to finally see our paper out in @NatureCellBio! We de-orphanized MFSD1 as a lysosomal dipeptide uniporter. Fantastic work of @Kathaschnatta, @OceaneGuelle,
@AllUNeedIsLoew and Bruno Gasnier: https://t.co/wbWgHGoAFP so nice to see the structure of MFSD1&GLMP!
Acute degradation of RUVBL1 in transplanted PDAC tumors via the auxin-inducible degron (AID) system resulted in complete tumor regression in immunocompetent mice which was preceded by infiltration with CD3-positive immune cells.
Thereby, targeting of RUVBL1/2 transforms PDAC into an immunologically “hot” tumor, responsive to immunotherapy. In summary, our work identified the MYC-RUVBL1/2 axis as a druggable vulnerability of MYC-driven cancer.
RUVBL1/2 interacts directly with MYC and gets recruited to chromatin by MYC, where it is required to establish oncogenic and immune-evasive gene expression.
We investigated the possibility of targeting the prominent oncogene MYC via its binding partners. We prioritized MYC binding partners by genetic screens in PDAC cells in culture and in immunocompetent mice.
While PDAC dependencies in cell culture followed public essentiality data of the @CancerDepMap portal, dependencies on MYC binding partners were reduced in vivo. Among the most essential MYC binding partners in vivo were RUVBL1 and RUVBL2 which form a AAA ATPase complex.