Kidney fibrosis: from mechanisms to therapeutic medicines

R Huang, P Fu, L Ma - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is estimated to affect 10–14% of global population. Kidney
fibrosis, characterized by excessive extracellular matrix deposition leading to scarring, is a …

Evaluation of post-translational modifications in histone proteins: A review on histone modification defects in developmental and neurological disorders

S Ramazi, A Allahverdi, J Zahiri - Journal of biosciences, 2020 - Springer
Post-translational modification (PTM) in histone proteins is a covalent modification which
mainly consists of methylation, phosphorylation, acetylation, ubiquitylation, SUMOylation …

One-carbon metabolism: linking nutritional biochemistry to epigenetic programming of long-term development

CE Clare, AH Brassington, WY Kwong… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
One-carbon (1C) metabolism comprises a series of interlinking metabolic pathways that
include the methionine and folate cycles that are central to cellular function, providing 1C …

Regulation of chromatin by histone modifications

AJ Bannister, T Kouzarides - Cell research, 2011 - nature.com
Chromatin is not an inert structure, but rather an instructive DNA scaffold that can respond to
external cues to regulate the many uses of DNA. A principle component of chromatin that …

Protein posttranslational modifications in health and diseases: Functions, regulatory mechanisms, and therapeutic implications

Q Zhong, X Xiao, Y Qiu, Z Xu, C Chen, B Chong… - MedComm, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) refer to the breaking or generation of covalent
bonds on the backbones or amino acid side chains of proteins and expand the diversity of …

Pathogenesis, multi-omics research, and clinical treatment of psoriasis

J Yu, Q Zhao, X Wang, H Zhou, J Hu, L Gu, Y Hu… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Psoriasis is a common inflammatory skin disease involving interactions between
keratinocytes and immune cells that significantly affects the quality of life. It is characterized …

The role of epigenetic factors in psoriasis

K Dopytalska, P Ciechanowicz, K Wiszniewski… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Psoriasis is a chronic, systemic, immune-mediated disease with an incidence of
approximately 2%. The pathogenesis of the disease is complex and not yet fully understood …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic mechanisms as a new approach in cancer treatment: An updated review

M Fardi, S Solali, MF Hagh - Genes & diseases, 2018 - Elsevier
Epigenetic, along with genetic mechanisms, is essential for natural evolution and
maintenance of specific patterns of gene expression in mammalians. Global epigenetic …

Oxygen-sensitive methylation of ULK1 is required for hypoxia-induced autophagy

J Li, T Zhang, T Ren, X Liao, Y Hao, JS Lim… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Hypoxia is a physiological stress that frequently occurs in solid tissues. Autophagy, a
ubiquitous degradation/recycling system in eukaryotic cells, renders cells tolerant to multiple …

The expanding constellation of histone post-translational modifications in the epigenetic landscape

V Cavalieri - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
The emergence of a nucleosome-based chromatin structure accompanied the evolutionary
transition from prokaryotes to eukaryotes. In this scenario, histones became the heart of the …