Zaytseva, OlgaKim, Nan-heeQuinn, Leonie2022-10-042022-10-041422-0067http://hdl.handle.net/1885/274267The MYC family of transcriptional regulators play significant roles in animal development, including the renewal and maintenance of stem cells. Not surprisingly, given MYCs capacity to promote programs of proliferative cell growth, MYC is frequently upregulated in cancer. Although members of the MYC family are upregulated in nervous system tumours, the mechanisms of how elevated MYC promotes stem cell-driven brain cancers is unknown. If we are to determine how increased MYC might contribute to brain cancer progression, we will require a more complete understanding of MYC's roles during normal brain development. Here, we evaluate evidence for MYC family functions in neural stem cell fate and brain development, with a view to better understand mechanisms of MYC-driven neural malignancies.This research was funded by National Health and Medical Research Council, grant number APP1143008.application/pdfen-AU© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/MYCbrain developmentneural stem cellsbrain cancerMYC in brain development and cancer202010.3390/ijms212077422021-11-28Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license