Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

An ALYREF-MYCN coactivator complex drives neuroblastoma tumorigenesis through effects on USP3 and MYCN stability

  • Zsuzsanna Nagy,
  • Janith A. Seneviratne,
  • Maxwell Kanikevich,
  • William Chang,
  • Chelsea Mayoh,
  • Pooja Venkat,
  • Yanhua Du,
  • Cizhong Jiang,
  • Alice Salib,
  • Jessica Koach,
  • Daniel R. Carter,
  • Rituparna Mittra,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Michael W. Parker,
  • Belamy B. Cheung,
  • Glenn M. Marshall

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22143-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Neuroblastoma (NB) is often driven by MYCN amplification. Here, the authors show that the most frequent genetic lesion, gain of 17q21-ter in NB leads to overexpression of ALYREF, which forms a complex with MYCN, regulating MYCN stability via the deubiquitinating enzyme, USP3.