[HTML][HTML] HIF-1α pathway: role, regulation and intervention for cancer therapy

GN Masoud, W Li - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) has been recognized as an important cancer
drug target. Many recent studies have provided convincing evidences of strong correlation …

Vitamin C: the known and the unknown and Goldilocks

SJ Padayatty, M Levine - Oral diseases, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid), the antiscorbutic vitamin, cannot be synthesized by humans and
other primates, and has to be obtained from diet. Ascorbic acid is an electron donor and acts …

An inhibitor of KDM5 demethylases reduces survival of drug-tolerant cancer cells

M Vinogradova, VS Gehling, A Gustafson… - Nature chemical …, 2016 - nature.com
The KDM5 family of histone demethylases catalyzes the demethylation of histone H3 on
lysine 4 (H3K4) and is required for the survival of drug-tolerant persister cancer cells (DTPs) …

Intrinsically unstructured proteins and their functions

HJ Dyson, PE Wright - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2005 - nature.com
Many gene sequences in eukaryotic genomes encode entire proteins or large segments of
proteins that lack a well-structured three-dimensional fold. Disordered regions can be highly …

Oxygen sensing by HIF hydroxylases

CJ Schofield, PJ Ratcliffe - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2004 - nature.com
The transcription factor HIF (hypoxia-inducible factor) has a central role in oxygen
homeostasis in animals ranging from nematode worms to man. Recent studies have shown …

Dioxygen activation at mononuclear nonheme iron active sites: enzymes, models, and intermediates

M Costas, MP Mehn, MP Jensen, L Que - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
There have been significant advances in our understanding of mononuclear nonheme iron
oxygenases since our 1996 Chemical Reviews article, 1 promoted in large part by the many …

Adaptive and maladaptive cardiorespiratory responses to continuous and intermittent hypoxia mediated by hypoxia-inducible factors 1 and 2

NR Prabhakar, GL Semenza - Physiological reviews, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
Hypoxia is a fundamental stimulus that impacts cells, tissues, organs, and physiological
systems. The discovery of hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) and subsequent identification of …

Transcription regulation by histone methylation: interplay between different covalent modifications of the core histone tails

Y Zhang, D Reinberg - Genes & development, 2001 - genesdev.cshlp.org
In this review, we discuss recent advances made on histone methylation and its diverse
functions in regulating gene expression. Methylation of histone polypeptides might be static …

JmjC-domain-containing proteins and histone demethylation

RJ Klose, EM Kallin, Y Zhang - Nature reviews genetics, 2006 - nature.com
Histone methylation has important roles in regulating gene expression and forms part of the
epigenetic memory system that regulates cell fate and identity. Enzymes that directly remove …

Fe (II)/α-ketoglutarate-dependent hydroxylases and related enzymes

RP Hausinger - Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Fe (II)/α-ketoglutarate (αKG)-dependent hydroxylases catalyze an amazing diversity of
reactions that result in protein side-chain modifications, repair of alkylated DNA/RNA …