The speckled protein (SP) family: immunity's chromatin readers

I Fraschilla, KL Jeffrey - Trends in Immunology, 2020 - cell.com
Chromatin 'readers' are central interpreters of the epigenome that facilitate cell-specific
transcriptional programs and are therapeutic targets in cancer and inflammation. The …

Functional roles of bromodomain proteins in cancer

SP Boyson, C Gao, K Quinn, J Boyd, H Paculova… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This review provides an in depth analysis of the role of bromodomain-
containing proteins in cancer development. As readers of acetylated lysine on nucleosomal …

Characterization of the plant homeodomain (PHD) reader family for their histone tail interactions

K Jain, CS Fraser, MR Marunde, MM Parker… - Epigenetics & …, 2020 - Springer
Background Plant homeodomain (PHD) fingers are central “readers” of histone post-
translational modifications (PTMs) with> 100 PHD finger-containing proteins encoded by the …

Maintenance of macrophage transcriptional programs and intestinal homeostasis by epigenetic reader SP140

S Mehta, DA Cronkite, M Basavappa… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Epigenetic “readers” that recognize defined posttranslational modifications on histones have
become desirable therapeutic targets for cancer and inflammation. SP140 is one such …

Immune chromatin reader SP140 regulates microbiota and risk for inflammatory bowel disease

I Fraschilla, H Amatullah, RU Rahman, KL Jeffrey - Cell host & microbe, 2022 - cell.com
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is driven by host genetics and environmental factors,
including commensal microorganisms. Speckled Protein 140 (SP140) is an immune …

SP140 regulates the expression of immune-related genes associated with multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases by NF-κ B inhibition

M Karaky, M Fedetz, V Potenciano… - Human molecular …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
SP140 locus has been associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) as well as other autoimmune
diseases by genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The causal variant of these …

Correcting electrostatic artifacts due to net‐charge changes in the calculation of ligand binding free energies

C Öhlknecht, B Lier, D Petrov, J Fuchs… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Alchemically derived free energies are artifacted when the perturbed moiety has a nonzero
net charge. The source of the artifacts lies in the effective treatment of the electrostatic …

Integrative analysis reveals functional and regulatory roles of H3K79me2 in mediating alternative splicing

T Li, Q Liu, N Garza, S Kornblau, VX Jin - Genome Medicine, 2018 - Springer
Background Accumulating evidence suggests alternative splicing (AS) is a co-transcriptional
splicing process not only controlled by RNA-binding splicing factors, but also mediated by …

Sp100 colocalizes with HPV replication foci and restricts the productive stage of the infectious cycle

WH Stepp, JD Stamos, S Khurana, A Warburton… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
We have shown previously that Sp100 (a component of the ND10 nuclear body) represses
transcription, replication and establishment of incoming human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA …

PML body component Sp100A restricts wild-type herpes simplex virus 1 infection

Y Ma, J Li, H Dong, Z Yang, L Zhou, P Xu - Journal of virology, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT Sp100 (speckled protein 100 kDa) is a constituent component of nuclear
structure PML (promyelocytic leukemia) bodies, playing important roles in mediating intrinsic …