Publications by Maria Christine Donaldson

A Tale of Two Tumors: Unraveling the Complexities of Epigenetic Dysregulation in Cancer

Epigenetics plays an important role in cancer development and progression. Cancer cells hijack the epigenome by modifying the histone protein units responsible for packaging DNA, or by modifying the DNA itself, resulting in changes to chromatin topology an ...

EPFL2019

EZH2 oncogenic mutations drive epigenetic, transcriptional, and structural changes within chromatin domains

Suliana Manley, Elisa Oricchio, Kyle Michael Douglass, Natalya Katanayeva, Daniele Tavernari, Elena Battistello, Stephanie Jocelyne Sungalee, Maria Christine Donaldson, Timo Henry René Rey, Giovanni Ciriello

Chromatin is organized into topologically associating domains (TADs) enriched in distinct histone marks. In cancer, gain-of-function mutations in the gene encoding the enhancer of zeste homolog 2 protein (EZH2) lead to a genome-wide increase in histone-3 L ...

2019

Pan-SRC kinase inhibition blocks B-cell receptor oncogenic signaling in non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Olivier Michielin, Elisa Oricchio, Daniele Tavernari, Natalya Katanayeva, Elena Battistello, Maria Christine Donaldson, Elie Charles Eugène Dheilly, Giovanni Ciriello

2018

Genetic and epigenetic inactivation of SESTRIN1 controls mTORC1 and response to EZH2 inhibition in follicular lymphoma

Elisa Oricchio, Natalya Katanayeva, Elena Battistello, Maria Christine Donaldson, Stephanie Jocelyne Sungalee, Giovanni Ciriello

Follicular lymphoma (FL) is an incurable form of B cell lymphoma. Genomic studies have cataloged common genetic lesions in FL such as translocation t(14;18), frequent losses of chromosome 6q, and mutations in epigenetic regulators such as EZH2 Using a focu ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2017