Exercise adaptations: molecular mechanisms and potential targets for therapeutic benefit

SL McGee, M Hargreaves - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2020 - nature.com
Exercise is fundamental for good health, whereas physical inactivity underpins many chronic
diseases of modern society. It is well appreciated that regular exercise improves metabolism …

Crosstalk between metabolic reprogramming and epigenetics in cancer: updates on mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

T Ge, X Gu, R Jia, S Ge, P Chai… - Cancer …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reversible, spatial, and temporal regulation of metabolic reprogramming and epigenetic
homeostasis are prominent hallmarks of carcinogenesis. Cancer cells reprogram their …

Sensitivity of transcription factors to DNA methylation

É Héberlé, AF Bardet - Essays in biochemistry, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Dynamic binding of transcription factors (TFs) to regulatory elements controls transcriptional
states throughout organism development. Epigenetics modifications, such as DNA …

Active turnover of DNA methylation during cell fate decisions

A Parry, S Rulands, W Reik - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a key layer of epigenetic regulation. The deposition of methylation marks
relies on the catalytic activity of DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs), and their active removal …

YAP induces an oncogenic transcriptional program through TET1-mediated epigenetic remodeling in liver growth and tumorigenesis

BK Wu, SC Mei, EH Chen, Y Zheng, D Pan - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Epigenetic remodeling is essential for oncogene-induced cellular transformation and
malignancy. In contrast to histone post-translational modifications, how DNA methylation is …

Adipogenesis: a complex interplay of multiple molecular determinants and pathways

MA Ambele, P Dhanraj, R Giles, MS Pepper - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The formation of adipocytes during embryogenesis has been largely understudied.
However, preadipocytes appear to originate from multipotent mesenchymal stromal/stem …

Fumarate hydratase (FH) and cancer: a paradigm of oncometabolism

L Valcarcel-Jimenez, C Frezza - British Journal of Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Fumarate hydratase (FH) is an enzyme of the Tricarboxylic Acid (TCA) cycle whose
mutations lead to hereditary and sporadic forms of cancer. Although more than twenty years …

S-2-hydroxyglutarate regulates CD8+ T-lymphocyte fate

PA Tyrakis, A Palazon, D Macias, KL Lee, AT Phan… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
R-2-hydroxyglutarate accumulates to millimolar levels in cancer cells with gain-of-function
isocitrate dehydrogenase 1/2 mutations. These levels of R-2-hydroxyglutarate affect 2 …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR/Cas9-based engineering of the epigenome

J Pulecio, N Verma, E Mejía-Ramírez, D Huangfu… - Cell stem cell, 2017 - cell.com
Determining causal relationships between distinct chromatin features and gene expression,
and ultimately cell behavior, remains a major challenge. Recent developments in targetable …

Hypoxia/pseudohypoxia‐mediated activation of hypoxia‐inducible factor‐1α in cancer

Y Hayashi, A Yokota, H Harada, G Huang - Cancer science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Since the first identification of hypoxic cells in sections of carcinomas in the 1950s, hypoxia
has been known as a central hallmark of cancer cells and their microenvironment. Indeed …