Targeting epigenetic regulators for cancer therapy: mechanisms and advances in clinical trials

Y Cheng, C He, M Wang, X Ma, F Mo, S Yang… - Signal transduction and …, 2019 - nature.com
Epigenetic alternations concern heritable yet reversible changes in histone or DNA
modifications that regulate gene activity beyond the underlying sequence. Epigenetic …

DNA methylation profiles in cancer diagnosis and therapeutics

Y Pan, G Liu, F Zhou, B Su, Y Li - Clinical and experimental medicine, 2018 - Springer
Cancer initiation and proliferation is regulated by both epigenetic and genetic events with
epigenetic modifications being increasingly identified as important targets for cancer …

Tumor suppressor TET2 promotes cancer immunity and immunotherapy efficacy

Y Xu, L Lv, Y Liu, MD Smith, WC Li… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Loss-of-function mutations in genes encoding TET DNA dioxygenase occur frequently in
hematopoietic malignancy, but rarely in solid tumors, which instead commonly have reduced …

Cancer development, progression, and therapy: an epigenetic overview

S Sarkar, G Horn, K Moulton, A Oza, S Byler… - International journal of …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Carcinogenesis involves uncontrolled cell growth, which follows the activation of oncogenes
and/or the deactivation of tumor suppression genes. Metastasis requires down-regulation of …

Circular RNA circTRIM33–12 acts as the sponge of MicroRNA-191 to suppress hepatocellular carcinoma progression

PF Zhang, CY Wei, XY Huang, R Peng, X Yang, JC Lu… - Molecular cancer, 2019 - Springer
Background Recently, the dysregulation of circular RNA (circRNA) have been shown to
have important regulatory roles in cancer development and progression, including …

Role of TET enzymes in DNA methylation, development, and cancer

KD Rasmussen, K Helin - Genes & development, 2016 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The pattern of DNA methylation at cytosine bases in the genome is tightly linked to gene
expression, and DNA methylation abnormalities are often observed in diseases. The ten …

Nucleic acid modifications in regulation of gene expression

K Chen, BS Zhao, C He - Cell chemical biology, 2016 - cell.com
Nucleic acids carry a wide range of different chemical modifications. In contrast to previous
views that these modifications are static and only play fine-tuning functions, recent research …

Connections between TET proteins and aberrant DNA modification in cancer

Y Huang, A Rao - Trends in Genetics, 2014 - cell.com
DNA methylation has been linked to aberrant silencing of tumor suppressor genes in cancer,
and an imbalance in DNA methylation–demethylation cycles is intimately implicated in the …

S-nitrosylation drives cell senescence and aging in mammals by controlling mitochondrial dynamics and mitophagy

S Rizza, S Cardaci, C Montagna… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
S-nitrosylation, a prototypic redox-based posttranslational modification, is frequently
dysregulated in disease. S-nitrosoglutathione reductase (GSNOR) regulates protein S …

Exosomal miR-21 regulates the TETs/PTENp1/PTEN pathway to promote hepatocellular carcinoma growth

L Cao, X Yang, Y Chen, D Zhang, XF Jiang, P Xue - Molecular Cancer, 2019 - Springer
Background As an important means of communication, exosomes play an important role in
the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Methods Bioinformatics analysis, dual …