The role of histone modifications: from neurodevelopment to neurodiseases

J Park, K Lee, K Kim, SJ Yi - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Epigenetic regulatory mechanisms, including DNA methylation, histone modification,
chromatin remodeling, and microRNA expression, play critical roles in cell differentiation …

Writing, erasing and reading histone lysine methylations

K Hyun, J Jeon, K Park, J Kim - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Histone modifications are key epigenetic regulatory features that have important roles in
many cellular events. Lysine methylations mark various sites on the tail and globular …

The interplay between DNA and histone methylation: molecular mechanisms and disease implications

Y Li, X Chen, C Lu - EMBO reports, 2021 - embopress.org
Methylation of cytosine in CpG dinucleotides and histone lysine and arginine residues is a
chromatin modification that critically contributes to the regulation of genome integrity …

Histone methylation: a dynamic mark in health, disease and inheritance

EL Greer, Y Shi - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Organisms require an appropriate balance of stability and reversibility in gene expression
programmes to maintain cell identity or to enable responses to stimuli; epigenetic regulation …

Molecular mechanisms and potential functions of histone demethylases

SM Kooistra, K Helin - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2012 - nature.com
Histone modifications are thought to regulate chromatin structure, transcription and other
nuclear processes. Histone methylation was originally believed to be an irreversible …

[HTML][HTML] A chromatin-mediated reversible drug-tolerant state in cancer cell subpopulations

SV Sharma, DY Lee, B Li, MP Quinlan, F Takahashi… - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
Accumulating evidence implicates heterogeneity within cancer cell populations in the
response to stressful exposures, including drug treatments. While modeling the acute …

An inhibitor of KDM5 demethylases reduces survival of drug-tolerant cancer cells

M Vinogradova, VS Gehling, A Gustafson… - Nature chemical …, 2016 - nature.com
The KDM5 family of histone demethylases catalyzes the demethylation of histone H3 on
lysine 4 (H3K4) and is required for the survival of drug-tolerant persister cancer cells (DTPs) …

[HTML][HTML] A temporarily distinct subpopulation of slow-cycling melanoma cells is required for continuous tumor growth

A Roesch, M Fukunaga-Kalabis, EC Schmidt… - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
Melanomas are highly heterogeneous tumors, but the biological significance of their
different subpopulations is not clear. Using the H3K4 demethylase JARID1B (KDM5B/PLU …

An update of epigenetic drugs for the treatment of cancers and brain diseases: a comprehensive review

Z Sahafnejad, S Ramazi, A Allahverdi - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Epigenetics has long been recognized as a significant field in biology and is defined as the
investigation of any alteration in gene expression patterns that is not attributed to changes in …

Systematic sequencing of renal carcinoma reveals inactivation of histone modifying genes

GL Dalgliesh, K Furge, C Greenman, L Chen, G Bignell… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common form of adult kidney cancer,
characterized by the presence of inactivating mutations in the VHL gene in most cases,, and …