Current state of melanoma diagnosis and treatment

LE Davis, SC Shalin, AJ Tackett - Cancer biology & therapy, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. In the early stages, melanoma can be treated
successfully with surgery alone and survival rates are high, but after metastasis survival …

Mechanisms and functions of long non-coding RNAs at multiple regulatory levels

X Zhang, W Wang, W Zhu, J Dong, Y Cheng… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Long non-coding (lnc) RNAs are non-coding RNAs longer than 200 nt. lncRNAs primarily
interact with mRNA, DNA, protein, and miRNA and consequently regulate gene expression …

The interplay of histone modifications–writers that read

T Zhang, S Cooper, N Brockdorff - EMBO reports, 2015 - embopress.org
Histones are subject to a vast array of posttranslational modifications including acetylation,
methylation, phosphorylation, and ubiquitylation. The writers of these modifications play …

Combinatorial function of transcription factors and cofactors

F Reiter, S Wienerroither, A Stark - Current opinion in genetics & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Differential gene expression gives rise to the many cell types of complex organisms.
Enhancers regulate transcription by binding transcription factors (TFs), which in turn recruit …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatin dynamics during spermiogenesis

C Rathke, WM Baarends, S Awe… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2014 - Elsevier
The function of sperm is to safely transport the haploid paternal genome to the egg
containing the maternal genome. The subsequent fertilization leads to transmission of a new …

Immunoaffinity enrichment and mass spectrometry analysis of protein methylation

A Guo, H Gu, J Zhou, D Mulhern, Y Wang… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2014 - ASBMB
Protein methylation is a common posttranslational modification that mostly occurs on
arginine and lysine residues. Arginine methylation has been reported to regulate RNA …

Epigenetics: definition, mechanisms and clinical perspective

C Dupont, DR Armant… - Seminars in reproductive …, 2009 - thieme-connect.com
ABSTRACT A vast array of successive epigenetic modifications ensures the creation of a
healthy individual. Crucial epigenetic reprogramming events occur during germ cell …

Molecular complexes at euchromatin, heterochromatin and centromeric chromatin

O Morrison, J Thakur - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chromatin consists of a complex of DNA and histone proteins as its core components and
plays an important role in both packaging DNA and regulating DNA metabolic pathways …

Epigenetic regulation in AKI and kidney repair: mechanisms and therapeutic implications

C Guo, G Dong, X Liang, Z Dong - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2019 - nature.com
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a major public health concern associated with high morbidity and
mortality. Despite decades of research, the pathogenesis of AKI remains incompletely …

Histone methylation regulates memory formation

S Gupta, SY Kim, S Artis, DL Molfese… - Journal of …, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
It has been established that regulation of chromatin structure through post-translational
modification of histone proteins, primarily histone H3 phosphorylation and acetylation, is an …