The language of chromatin modification in human cancers

S Zhao, CD Allis, GG Wang - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
The genetic information of human cells is stored in the context of chromatin, which is
subjected to DNA methylation and various histone modifications. Such a 'language'of …

Regulation, functions and transmission of bivalent chromatin during mammalian development

TA Macrae, J Fothergill-Robinson… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Cells differentiate and progress through development guided by a dynamic chromatin
landscape that mediates gene expression programmes. During development, mammalian …

H3K4me3 regulates RNA polymerase II promoter-proximal pause-release

H Wang, Z Fan, PV Shliaha, M Miele, RC Hendrickson… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4me3) is associated with transcriptional start sites
and has been proposed to regulate transcription initiation,. However, redundant functions of …

EZH2 noncanonically binds cMyc and p300 through a cryptic transactivation domain to mediate gene activation and promote oncogenesis

J Wang, X Yu, W Gong, X Liu, KS Park, A Ma… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Canonically, EZH2 serves as the catalytic subunit of PRC2, which mediates H3K27me3
deposition and transcriptional repression. Here, we report that in acute leukaemias, EZH2 …

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 …

2-Oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases in cancer

JA Losman, P Koivunen, WG Kaelin Jr - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases (2OGDDs) are a superfamily of enzymes that play
diverse roles in many biological processes, including regulation of hypoxia-inducible factor …

Interplay between chromatin marks in development and disease

SM Janssen, MC Lorincz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation (DNAme) and histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) have
important roles in transcriptional regulation. Although many reports have characterized the …

Epigenetic modulators, modifiers and mediators in cancer aetiology and progression

AP Feinberg, MA Koldobskiy, A Göndör - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
This year is the tenth anniversary of the publication in this journal of a model suggesting the
existence of'tumour progenitor genes'. These genes are epigenetically disrupted at the …

Functions of bromodomain-containing proteins and their roles in homeostasis and cancer

T Fujisawa, P Filippakopoulos - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
Bromodomains (BRDs) are evolutionarily conserved protein–protein interaction modules
that are found in a wide range of proteins with diverse catalytic and scaffolding functions and …

A fate worse than death: apoptosis as an oncogenic process

G Ichim, SWG Tait - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
Apoptotic cell death is widely considered a positive process that both prevents and treats
cancer. Although undoubtedly having a beneficial role, paradoxically, apoptosis can also …