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 …

Epigenetic regulation in human cancer: the potential role of epi-drug in cancer therapy

Y Lu, YT Chan, HY Tan, S Li, N Wang, Y Feng - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Epigenetics is dynamic and heritable modifications to the genome that occur independently
of DNA sequence. It requires interactions cohesively with various enzymes and other …

New concepts in DNA methylation

A Jeltsch, RZ Jurkowska - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2014 - cell.com
The widely-cited model of maintenance of DNA methylation at CpG sites implies that DNA
methylation is introduced by the Dnmt3 de novo DNA methyltransferases during early …

Structure and function of mammalian DNA methyltransferases

RZ Jurkowska, TP Jurkowski, A Jeltsch - Chembiochem, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
DNA methylation plays an important role in epigenetic signalling, having an impact on gene
regulation, chromatin structure, development and disease. Here, we review the structures …

In Vivo Control of CpG and Non-CpG DNA Methylation by DNA Methyltransferases

J Arand, D Spieler, T Karius, MR Branco… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The enzymatic control of the setting and maintenance of symmetric and non-symmetric DNA
methylation patterns in a particular genome context is not well understood. Here, we …

Allosteric control of mammalian DNA methyltransferases–a new regulatory paradigm

A Jeltsch, RZ Jurkowska - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In mammals, DNA methylation is introduced by the DNMT1, DNMT3A and DNMT3B
methyltransferases, which are all large multi-domain proteins containing a catalytic C …

Origins of human disease: the chrono-epigenetic perspective

ES Oh, A Petronis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Epigenetics has enriched human disease studies by adding new interpretations to disease
features that cannot be explained by genetic and environmental factors. However …

DNA methylation inhibitors in cancer: recent and future approaches

C Gros, J Fahy, L Halby, I Dufau, A Erdmann… - Biochimie, 2012 - Elsevier
This review presents the different human DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs), their biological
roles, their mechanisms of action and their role in cancer. The description of assays for …

Kinetics and mechanisms of mitotic inheritance of DNA methylation and their roles in aging-associated methylome deterioration

X Ming, Z Zhang, Z Zou, C Lv, Q Dong, Q He, Y Yi, Y Li… - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Mitotic inheritance of the DNA methylome is a challenging task for the maintenance of cell
identity. Whether DNA methylation pattern in different genomic contexts can all be faithfully …

Biochemistry and regulation of the protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs)

Y Morales, T Cáceres, K May, JM Hevel - Archives of biochemistry and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Many key cellular processes can be regulated by the seemingly simple addition of one, or
two, methyl groups to arginine residues by the nine known mammalian protein arginine …