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 …

Physicochemical properties of cells and their effects on intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs)

FX Theillet, A Binolfi, T Frembgen-Kesner… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
It has long been axiomatic that a protein's structure determines its function. Intrinsically
disordered proteins (IDPs) and disordered protein regions (IDRs) defy this structure …

Oncometabolite 2-hydroxyglutarate is a competitive inhibitor of α-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases

W Xu, H Yang, Y Liu, Y Yang, P Wang, SH Kim, S Ito… - Cancer cell, 2011 - cell.com
IDH1 and IDH2 mutations occur frequently in gliomas and acute myeloid leukemia, leading
to simultaneous loss and gain of activities in the production of α-ketoglutarate (α-KG) and 2 …

A selective jumonji H3K27 demethylase inhibitor modulates the proinflammatory macrophage response

L Kruidenier, C Chung, Z Cheng, J Liddle, KH Che… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The jumonji (JMJ) family of histone demethylases are Fe2+-and α-ketoglutarate-dependent
oxygenases that are essential components of regulatory transcriptional chromatin …

The oncometabolite 2‐hydroxyglutarate inhibits histone lysine demethylases

R Chowdhury, KK Yeoh, YM Tian, L Hillringhaus… - EMBO …, 2011 - embopress.org
Mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenases (IDHs) have a gain‐of‐function effect leading to R
(−)‐2‐hydroxyglutarate (R‐2HG) accumulation. By using biochemical, structural and cellular …

SETD2-dependent histone H3K36 trimethylation is required for homologous recombination repair and genome stability

SX Pfister, S Ahrabi, LP Zalmas, S Sarkar, F Aymard… - Cell reports, 2014 - cell.com
Modulating chromatin through histone methylation orchestrates numerous cellular
processes. SETD2-dependent trimethylation of histone H3K36 is associated with active …

Histone lysine demethylases as targets for anticancer therapy

JW Højfeldt, K Agger, K Helin - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2013 - nature.com
It has recently been demonstrated that the genes controlling the epigenetic programmes that
are required for maintaining chromatin structure and cell identity include genes that drive …

Posttranslational mutagenesis: A chemical strategy for exploring protein side-chain diversity

TH Wright, BJ Bower, JM Chalker, GJL Bernardes… - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Natural posttranslational modifications (PTMs) to proteins expand the
chemical groups available to proteins. The ability to expand posttranslational functional …

Control of histone demethylation by nuclear-localized α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase

F Huang, X Luo, Y Ou, Z Gao, Q Tang, Z Chu, X Zhu… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Methylations on nucleosomal histones play fundamental roles in regulating eukaryotic
transcription. Jumonji C domain–containing histone demethylases (JMJs) dynamically …

KDM4/JMJD2 histone demethylases: epigenetic regulators in cancer cells

WL Berry, R Janknecht - Cancer research, 2013 - AACR
Lysine methylation is one of the most prominent histone posttranslational modifications that
regulate chromatin structure. Changes in histone lysine methylation status have been …