FGF21 facilitates autophagy in prostate cancer cells by inhibiting the PI3K–Akt–mTOR signaling pathway

H Dai, W Hu, L Zhang, F Jiang, X Mao, G Yang… - Cell death & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) plays an important role in regulating glucose
and lipid metabolism, but its role in cancer is less well-studied. We aimed to investigate the …

The epigenetic landscape of renal cancer

MR Morris, F Latif - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2017 - nature.com
The majority of kidney cancers are associated with mutations in the von Hippel-Lindau gene
and a small proportion are associated with infrequent mutations in other well characterized …

dCas9: a versatile tool for epigenome editing

DJW Brocken, M Tark-Dame, RT Dame - Current issues in molecular …, 2018 - mdpi.com
The epigenome is a heritable layer of information not encoded in the DNA sequence of the
genome, but in chemical modifications of DNA or histones. These chemical modifications …

Enzymes for N-Glycan Branching and Their Genetic and Nongenetic Regulation in Cancer

Y Kizuka, N Taniguchi - Biomolecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
N-glycan, a fundamental and versatile protein modification in mammals, plays critical roles
in various physiological and pathological events including cancer progression. The …

Particulate matter‐induced epigenetic changes and lung cancer

J Li, WX Li, C Bai, Y Song - The clinical respiratory journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aims: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death
worldwide. Cigarette smoking is the well‐known risk factor for lung cancer. Epidemiological …

BAZ2A (TIP5) is involved in epigenetic alterations in prostate cancer and its overexpression predicts disease recurrence

L Gu, SC Frommel, CC Oakes, R Simon, K Grupp… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is driven by a combination of genetic and/or epigenetic alterations.
Epigenetic alterations are frequently observed in all human cancers, yet how aberrant …

Affinity map of bromodomain protein 4 (BRD4) interactions with the histone H4 tail and the small molecule inhibitor JQ1

M Jung, M Philpott, S Müller, J Schulze… - Journal of biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
Bromodomain protein 4 (BRD4) is a member of the bromodomain and extra-terminal domain
(BET) protein family. It binds to acetylated histone tails via its tandem bromodomains BD1 …

Chd7 is indispensable for mammalian brain development through activation of a neuronal differentiation programme

W Feng, D Kawauchi, H Körkel-Qu, H Deng… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Mutations in chromatin modifier genes are frequently associated with neurodevelopmental
diseases. We herein demonstrate that the chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein 7 …

The SUV4-20 inhibitor A-196 verifies a role for epigenetics in genomic integrity

KD Bromberg, TRH Mitchell, AK Upadhyay… - Nature chemical …, 2017 - nature.com
Protein lysine methyltransferases (PKMTs) regulate diverse physiological processes
including transcription and the maintenance of genomic integrity. Genetic studies suggest …

Methylation classifiers: Brain tumors, sarcomas, and what's next

C Koelsche, A von Deimling - Genes, Chromosomes and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tumor classification has evolved over the last decades with technical progress contributing
much to our current concepts. Among diagnostic hallmarks, novelties were immunostaining …