Genetic fusions favor tumorigenesis through degron loss in oncogenes

oleh: Jing Liu, Collin Tokheim, Jonathan D. Lee, Wenjian Gan, Brian J. North, X. Shirley Liu, Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Wenyi Wei

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-11-01

Deskripsi

The impact of genetic fusions on degrons, which are motifs for ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, has not been fully explored. Here, the authors analyse fusion genes affecting degrons in pan-cancer genomics data, validate their functional impact and find enrichment for both internal and C-terminal degron losses.