Epigenetic therapy in immune-oncology

PA Jones, H Ohtani, A Chakravarthy… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
… genetics and epigenetics in cancer can be bidirectional 1 . In terms of DNA methylation,
tumours frequently show a global loss of DNA methylation 3 with gains of focal DNA methylation

Epigenetic therapy combinations in acute myeloid leukemia: what are the options?

JP Bewersdorf, R Shallis, M Stahl… - Therapeutic advances …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
… , several driver mutations in leukemic pathogenesis have been identified in genes that
affect epigenetic processes, such as DNA methylation and histone acetylation. Several …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation as a future therapeutic and diagnostic target in rheumatoid arthritis

M Ciechomska, L Roszkowski, W Maslinski - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
… Thus, epigenetic therapies controlling autoimmunity and systemic inflammation may find …
targeting DNA methylation may improve diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic approaches. …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic therapy for ovarian cancer: promise and progress

S Moufarrij, M Dandapani, E Arthofer, S Gomez… - … epigenetics, 2019 - Springer
… The epigenetic modification DNA methylation regulates gene expression through the addition
of a methyl group to promoter regions of DNA to … Aberrant DNA methylation and structural …

[HTML][HTML] Role of DNA methylation in the resistance to therapy in solid tumors

S Romero-Garcia, H Prado-Garcia… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
DNA methylation in the development of tumors. DNA methylation (DNAm) is an epigenetic
change that promotes the covalent transfer of methyl groups to DNA. This process suppresses …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation as a therapeutic target for bladder cancer

SP Nunes, R Henrique, C Jerónimo, JM Paramio - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
… The disruption of normal epigenetic mechanisms, namely, DNA methylation, is a known … of
aberrant DNA methylation in BC, focusing on therapeutic strategies that target this epigenetic

Targeting epigenetic modifications in cancer therapy: erasing the roadmap to cancer

HP Mohammad, O Barbash, CL Creasy - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
… inhibit the maintenance and acquisition of DNA methylation and reactivate gene expression
14 . … Since a primary mechanism of action of epigenetic therapies is to induce transcriptional …

[HTML][HTML] The role of DNA methylation in epigenetics of aging

A Unnikrishnan, WM Freeman, J Jackson… - Pharmacology & …, 2019 - Elsevier
… is embryonically lethal because DNA methylation patterns are … DNA methylation has evolved
from one in which methylation … braoder perspective where DNA methylation is dynamically …

[HTML][HTML] The promise for histone methyltransferase inhibitors for epigenetic therapy in clinical oncology: a narrative review

HS Rugo, I Jacobs, S Sharma, F Scappaticci… - … in therapy, 2020 - Springer
… methyltransferases (DNMTs) to specific genomic loci to promote DNA methylation [19,… DNA
methylation and histone modification machinery critical for maintaining the cellular epigenetic

[HTML][HTML] Advances in epigenetic cancer therapeutics

C Hillyar, KS Rallis, J Varghese - Cureus, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Epigenetic modifications, including DNA methylation and demethylation and histone … -cancer
therapy given the reversible nature of epigenetic changes. Hence, epigenetic therapy has …