[HTML][HTML] Oxidative stress and diabetic retinopathy: Molecular mechanisms, pathogenetic role and therapeutic implications

Q Kang, C Yang - Redox biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Oxidative stress, a cytopathic outcome of excessive generation of ROS and the repression of
antioxidant defense system for ROS elimination, is involved in the pathogenesis of multiple …

Histone methylation and the DNA damage response

F Gong, KM Miller - Mutation Research/Reviews in Mutation Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Preserving genome function and stability are paramount for ensuring cellular homeostasis,
an imbalance in which can promote diseases including cancer. In the presence of DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian aging

JH Yang, M Hayano, PT Griffin, JA Amorim… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
All living things experience an increase in entropy, manifested as a loss of genetic and
epigenetic information. In yeast, epigenetic information is lost over time due to the …

LSD1 ablation stimulates anti-tumor immunity and enables checkpoint blockade

W Sheng, MW LaFleur, TH Nguyen, S Chen… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Chromatin regulators play a broad role in regulating gene expression and, when gone awry,
can lead to cancer. Here, we demonstrate that ablation of the histone demethylase LSD1 in …

MRE11 and EXO1 nucleases degrade reversed forks and elicit MUS81-dependent fork rescue in BRCA2-deficient cells

D Lemaçon, J Jackson, A Quinet, JR Brickner… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The breast cancer susceptibility proteins BRCA1 and BRCA2 have emerged as key
stabilizing factors for the maintenance of replication fork integrity following replication stress …

Screen identifies bromodomain protein ZMYND8 in chromatin recognition of transcription-associated DNA damage that promotes homologous recombination

F Gong, LY Chiu, B Cox, F Aymard… - Genes & …, 2015 - genesdev.cshlp.org
How chromatin shapes pathways that promote genome–epigenome integrity in response to
DNA damage is an issue of crucial importance. We report that human bromodomain (BRD) …

LSD1: biologic roles and therapeutic targeting

A Maiques-Diaz, TCP Somervaille - Epigenomics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
LSD1 (KDM1A; BHC110; AOF2) was the first protein reported to exhibit histone demethylase
activity and has since been shown to have multiple essential roles in mammalian biology …

Silencing of LINE-1 retrotransposons is a selective dependency of myeloid leukemia

Z Gu, Y Liu, Y Zhang, H Cao, J Lyu, X Wang, A Wylie… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Transposable elements or transposons are major players in genetic variability and genome
evolution. Aberrant activation of long interspersed element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) …

Histone demethylases in chromatin biology and beyond

E Dimitrova, AH Turberfield, RJ Klose - EMBO reports, 2015 - embopress.org
Histone methylation plays fundamental roles in regulating chromatin‐based processes. With
the discovery of histone demethylases over a decade ago, it is now clear that histone …

Histone demethylase KDM5A regulates the ZMYND8–NuRD chromatin remodeler to promote DNA repair

F Gong, T Clouaire, M Aguirrebengoa, G Legube… - Journal of Cell …, 2017 - rupress.org
Upon DNA damage, histone modifications are dynamically reshaped to accommodate DNA
damage signaling and repair within chromatin. In this study, we report the identification of …