Emerging insights into the roles of the Paf1 complex in gene regulation

SB Van Oss, CE Cucinotta, KM Arndt - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2017 - cell.com
The conserved, multifunctional Polymerase-Associated Factor 1 complex (Paf1C) regulates
all stages of the RNA polymerase (Pol) II transcription cycle. In this review, we examine a …

RNAPII driven post-translational modifications of nucleosomal histones

J Chan, A Kumar, H Kono - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
The current understanding of how specific distributions of histone post-translational
modifications (PTMs) are achieved throughout the chromatin remains incomplete. This …

LncRNA ODIR1 inhibits osteogenic differentiation of hUC-MSCs through the FBXO25/H2BK120ub/H3K4me3/OSX axis

S He, S Yang, Y Zhang, X Li, D Gao, Y Zhong… - Cell death & …, 2019 - nature.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been demonstrated to be important regulators
during the osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). We analyzed the …

Enhancing HIV-1 latency reversal through regulating the elongating RNA Pol II pause-release by a small-molecule disruptor of PAF1C

SHA Soliman, WJ Cisneros, M Iwanaszko, Y Aoi… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The polymerase-associated factor 1 complex (PAF1C) is a key, post-initiation transcriptional
regulator of both promoter-proximal pausing and productive elongation catalyzed by RNA …

USP7 cooperates with NOTCH1 to drive the oncogenic transcriptional program in T-cell leukemia

Q Jin, CA Martinez, KM Arcipowski, Y Zhu… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Purpose: T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive disease, affecting
children and adults. Chemotherapy treatments show high response rates but have …

PHF5A contributes to the maintenance of the cancer stem-like phenotype in non-small cell lung cancer by regulating histone deacetylase 8

Y Yang, M Li, X Zhou, W Wang, Y Shao… - Annals of Clinical & …, 2022 - Assoc Clin Scientists
Objective. Cancer stem-like cells (CSLCs) are closely associated with tumor recurrence,
metastasis, and drug-resistance. PHD-finger domain protein 5A (PHF5A) is related to …

Unraveling heterogeneity of tumor cells and microenvironment and its clinical implications for triple negative breast cancer

K Jiang, M Dong, C Li, J Sheng - Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Objective: Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer,
characterized by extensive intratumoral heterogeneity. We aimed to systematically …

Connecting the DOTs on cell identity

CK Wille, R Sridharan - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
DOT1-Like (DOT1L) is the sole methyltransferase of histone H3K79, a modification enriched
mainly on the bodies of actively transcribing genes. DOT1L has been extensively studied in …

Role of the Paf1 complex in the maintenance of stem cell pluripotency and development

J Park, S Park, JS Lee - The FEBS Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cell identity is determined by the transcriptional regulation of a cell‐type‐specific gene
group. The Paf1 complex (Paf1C), an RNA polymerase II‐associating factor, is an important …

PHF5A as a new OncoTarget and therapeutic prospects

X Li, D Liu, Y Wang, Y Chen, C Wang, Z Lin, L Tian - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Abstract PHF5A (PHD-finger domain protein 5A) is a highly conserved protein comprised of
110 amino acids that belong to PHD zinc finger proteins and is ubiquitously expressed in …