Protein arginine methylation: from enigmatic functions to therapeutic targeting

Q Wu, M Schapira, CH Arrowsmith… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) are emerging as attractive therapeutic targets.
PRMTs regulate transcription, splicing, RNA biology, the DNA damage response and cell …

Context is everything: aneuploidy in cancer

U Ben-David, A Amon - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer is driven by multiple types of genetic alterations, which range in size from point
mutations to whole-chromosome gains and losses, known as aneuploidy. Chromosome …

Amino acid metabolism in health and disease

ZN Ling, YF Jiang, JN Ru, JH Lu, B Ding… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Amino acids are the building blocks of protein synthesis. They are structural elements and
energy sources of cells necessary for normal cell growth, differentiation and function. Amino …

The regulation, functions and clinical relevance of arginine methylation

E Guccione, S Richard - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Methylation of arginine residues by protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) is involved
in the regulation of fundamental cellular processes, including transcription, RNA processing …

Synthetic lethality as an engine for cancer drug target discovery

A Huang, LA Garraway, A Ashworth… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
The first wave of genetically targeted therapies for cancer focused on drugging gene
products that are recurrently mutated in specific cancer types. However, mutational analysis …

Methionine metabolism in health and cancer: a nexus of diet and precision medicine

SM Sanderson, X Gao, Z Dai, JW Locasale - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Methionine uptake and metabolism is involved in a host of cellular functions including
methylation reactions, redox maintenance, polyamine synthesis and coupling to folate …

Polyamine metabolism and cancer: treatments, challenges and opportunities

RA Casero Jr, T Murray Stewart, AE Pegg - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
Advances in our understanding of the metabolism and molecular functions of polyamines
and their alterations in cancer have led to resurgence in the interest of targeting polyamine …

Protein arginine methyltransferases: promising targets for cancer therapy

JW Hwang, Y Cho, GU Bae, SN Kim… - Experimental & molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein methylation, a post-translational modification (PTM), is observed in a wide variety of
cell types from prokaryotes to eukaryotes. With recent and rapid advancements in epigenetic …

Integrative molecular characterization of malignant pleural mesothelioma

J Hmeljak, F Sanchez-Vega, KA Hoadley, J Shih… - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a highly lethal cancer of the lining of the chest
cavity. To expand our understanding of MPM, we conducted a comprehensive integrated …

Understanding the intersections between metabolism and cancer biology

MG Vander Heiden, RJ DeBerardinis - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Transformed cells adapt metabolism to support tumor initiation and progression. Specific
metabolic activities can participate directly in the process of transformation or support the …