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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] PRMT5 function and targeting in cancer

H Kim, AR Ze'ev - Cell stress, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Protein methyl transferases play critical roles in numerous regulatory pathways that underlie
cancer development, progression and therapy-response. Here we discuss the function of …

A selective inhibitor of PRMT5 with in vivo and in vitro potency in MCL models

E Chan-Penebre, KG Kuplast, CR Majer… - Nature chemical …, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Protein arginine methyltransferase-5 (PRMT5) is reported to have a role in diverse
cellular processes, including tumorigenesis, and its overexpression is observed in cell lines …

Protein arginine methyltransferases and cancer

Y Yang, MT Bedford - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2013 - nature.com
There are nine protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) encoded in mammalian
genomes, the protein products of which catalyse three types of arginine methylation …

The PRMT5 arginine methyltransferase: many roles in development, cancer and beyond

N Stopa, JE Krebs, D Shechter - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2015 - Springer
Post-translational arginine methylation is responsible for regulation of many biological
processes. The protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5, also known as Hsl7, Jbp1 …

Inhibitors of protein methyltransferases and demethylases

HU Kaniskan, ML Martini, J Jin - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Post-translational modifications of histones by protein methyltransferases (PMTs) and
histone demethylases (KDMs) play an important role in the regulation of gene expression …

Regulatory mechanisms of epigenetic miRNA relationships in human cancer and potential as therapeutic targets

KMT Arif, EK Elliott, LM Haupt, LR Griffiths - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary By the virtue of targeting multiple genes, a microRNA (miRNA) can infer
variable consequences on tumorigenesis by appearing as both a tumour suppressor and …

The LINC01138 drives malignancies via activating arginine methyltransferase 5 in hepatocellular carcinoma

Z Li, J Zhang, X Liu, S Li, Q Wang, D Chen, Z Hu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Recurrent chromosomal aberrations have led to the discovery of oncogenes or tumour
suppressors involved in carcinogenesis. Here we characterized an oncogenic long …

[HTML][HTML] Histone arginine methylation

A Di Lorenzo, MT Bedford - FEBS letters, 2011 - Elsevier
Arginine methylation is a common posttranslational modification (PTM). This type of PTM
occurs on both nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins, and is particularly abundant on shuttling …