Epigenetics of breast cancer: Biology and clinical implication in the era of precision medicine

B Pasculli, R Barbano, P Parrella - Seminars in cancer biology, 2018 - Elsevier
In the last years, mortality from breast cancer has declined in western countries as a
consequence of a more widespread screening resulting in earlier detection, as well as an …

Evolutionary dynamics and molecular mechanisms of HORMA domain protein signaling

Y Gu, A Desai, KD Corbett - Annual review of biochemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Controlled assembly and disassembly of multi-protein complexes is central to cellular
signaling. Proteins of the widespread and functionally diverse HORMA family nucleate …

[HTML][HTML] MethylNet: an automated and modular deep learning approach for DNA methylation analysis

JJ Levy, AJ Titus, CL Petersen, Y Chen, LA Salas… - BMC …, 2020 - Springer
Background DNA methylation (DNAm) is an epigenetic regulator of gene expression
programs that can be altered by environmental exposures, aging, and in pathogenesis …

A novel cell-type deconvolution algorithm reveals substantial contamination by immune cells in saliva, buccal and cervix

SC Zheng, AP Webster, D Dong, A Feber… - …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: An outstanding challenge in epigenome studies is the estimation of cell-type
proportions in complex epithelial tissues. Materials & methods: Here, we construct and …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap of DNA methylation in breast cancer identifies novel prognostic biomarkers

BP de Almeida, JD Apolónio, A Binnie… - BMC cancer, 2019 - Springer
Background Breast cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease resulting in diverse clinical
behaviours and therapeutic responses. DNA methylation is a major epigenetic alteration that …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibition of EZH2 catalytic activity selectively targets a metastatic subpopulation in triple-negative breast cancer

S Yomtoubian, SB Lee, A Verma, F Izzo, G Markowitz… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Epigenetic changes are increasingly being appreciated as key events in breast cancer
progression. However, breast cancer subtype-specific epigenetic regulation remains poorly …

[HTML][HTML] MicroRNAs and epigenetics strategies to reverse breast cancer

MM Rahman, AC Brane, TO Tollefsbol - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is a sporadic disease with genetic and epigenetic components. Genomic
instability in breast cancer leads to mutations, copy number variations, and genetic …

[HTML][HTML] EPISCORE: cell type deconvolution of bulk tissue DNA methylomes from single-cell RNA-Seq data

AE Teschendorff, T Zhu, CE Breeze, S Beck - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Cell type heterogeneity presents a challenge to the interpretation of epigenome data,
compounded by the difficulty in generating reliable single-cell DNA methylomes for large …

The crucial role of epigenetic regulation in breast cancer anti-estrogen resistance: Current findings and future perspectives

OA Sukocheva, E Lukina, M Friedemann… - Seminars in cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Breast cancer (BC) cell de-sensitization to Tamoxifen (TAM) or other selective estrogen
receptor (ER) modulators (SERM) is a complex process associated with BC heterogeneity …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of 27-hydroxylase (CYP27A1) and 27-hydroxycholesterol in breast cancer

S Kimbung, C Chang, PO Bendahl… - Endocrine-related …, 2017 - erc.bioscientifica.com
The impact of systemic 27-hydroxycholesterol (27HC) and intratumoral CYP27A1
expression on pathobiology and clinical response to statins in breast cancer needs …