CRISPR technologies for genome, epigenome and transcriptome editing

L Villiger, J Joung, L Koblan, J Weissman… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Our ability to edit genomes lags behind our capacity to sequence them, but the growing
understanding of CRISPR biology and its application to genome, epigenome and …

Base editor screens for in situ mutational scanning at scale

NZ Lue, BB Liau - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
A fundamental challenge in biology is understanding the molecular details of protein
function. How mutations alter protein activity, regulation, and response to drugs is of critical …

The menin inhibitor revumenib in KMT2A-rearranged or NPM1-mutant leukaemia

GC Issa, I Aldoss, J DiPersio, B Cuglievan, R Stone… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Targeting critical epigenetic regulators reverses aberrant transcription in cancer, thereby
restoring normal tissue function,–. The interaction of menin with lysine methyltransferase 2A …

Unbiased interrogation of functional lysine residues in human proteome

Y Bao, Q Pan, P Xu, Z Liu, Z Zhang, Y Liu, Y Xu, Y Yu… - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
CRISPR screens have empowered the high-throughput dissection of gene functions;
however, more explicit genetic elements, such as codons of amino acids, require thorough …

Pharmacological targeting of the cancer epigenome

NW Mabe, JA Perry, CF Malone, K Stegmaier - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Epigenetic dysregulation is increasingly appreciated as a hallmark of cancer, including
disease initiation, maintenance and therapy resistance. As a result, there have been …

Targeting of epigenetic co-dependencies enhances anti-AML efficacy of Menin inhibitor in AML with MLL1-r or mutant NPM1

W Fiskus, CP Mill, C Birdwell, JA Davis, K Das… - Blood cancer …, 2023 - nature.com
Monotherapy with Menin inhibitor (MI), eg, SNDX-5613, induces clinical remissions in
patients with relapsed/refractory AML harboring MLL1-r or mtNPM1, but most patients either …

NPM1‐mutated acute myeloid leukemia: New pathogenetic and therapeutic insights and open questions

B Falini - American journal of hematology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The nucleophosmin (NPM1) gene encodes for a multifunctional chaperone protein that is
localized in the nucleolus but continuously shuttles between the nucleus and cytoplasm …

Advances in acute myeloid leukemia differentiation therapy: A critical review

AK Abdel-Aziz - Biochemical Pharmacology, 2023 - Elsevier
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is characterized by impaired differentiation and indefinite
proliferation of abnormal myeloid progenitors. Although differentiating agents were deemed …

Approaching the catalytic mechanism of protein lysine methyltransferases by biochemical and simulation techniques

P Schnee, J Pleiss, A Jeltsch - Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Protein lysine methyltransferases (PKMTs) transfer up to three methyl groups to the side
chains of lysine residues in proteins and fulfill important regulatory functions by controlling …

Immunoproteasome function maintains oncogenic gene expression in KMT2A-complex driven leukemia

N Tubío-Santamaría, AK Jayavelu, TM Schnoeder… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Pharmacologic targeting of chromatin-associated protein complexes has shown significant
responses in KMT2A-rearranged (KMT2A-r) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) but resistance …