Histone modifications and cancer

JE Audia, RM Campbell - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2016 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Histone posttranslational modifications represent a versatile set of epigenetic marks
involved not only in dynamic cellular processes, such as transcription and DNA repair, but …

Epigenetics of hematopoiesis and hematological malignancies

D Hu, A Shilatifard - Genes & development, 2016 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Hematological malignancies comprise a diverse set of lymphoid and myeloid neoplasms in
which normal hematopoiesis has gone awry and together account for∼ 10% of all new …

Polycomb limits the neurogenic competence of neural precursor cells to promote astrogenic fate transition

Y Hirabayashi, N Suzki, M Tsuboi, TA Endo, T Toyoda… - Neuron, 2009 - cell.com
During neocortical development, neural precursor cells (NPCs, or neural stem cells)
produce neurons first and astrocytes later. Although the timing of the fate switch from …

The H3K36 demethylase Jhdm1b/Kdm2b regulates cell proliferation and senescence through p15Ink4b

J He, EM Kallin, Y Tsukada, Y Zhang - Nature structural & molecular …, 2008 - nature.com
Abstract The Ink4a-Arf-Ink4b locus has a crucial role in both cellular senescence and
tumorigenesis. JmjC domain–containing histone demethylase 1b (Jhdm1b, also known as …

Direct recruitment of polycomb repressive complex 1 to chromatin by core binding transcription factors

M Yu, T Mazor, H Huang, HT Huang, KL Kathrein… - Molecular cell, 2012 - cell.com
Polycomb repressive complexes (PRCs) play key roles in developmental epigenetic
regulation. Yet the mechanisms that target PRCs to specific loci in mammalian cells remain …

Polycomb group proteins Ring1A/B are functionally linked to the core transcriptional regulatory circuitry to maintain ES cell identity

M Endoh, TA Endo, T Endoh, Y Fujimura, O Ohara… - 2008 - journals.biologists.com
The Polycomb group (PcG) proteins mediate heritable silencing of developmental regulators
in metazoans, participating in one of two distinct multimeric protein complexes, the …

PRC1 fine-tunes gene repression and activation to safeguard skin development and stem cell specification

I Cohen, D Zhao, C Bar, VJ Valdes, KL Dauber-Decker… - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Polycomb repressive complexes (PRCs) 1 and 2 are essential chromatin regulators of cell
identity. PRC1, a dominant executer of Polycomb-mediated control, functions as multiple sub …

Small-molecule inhibitors targeting Polycomb repressive complex 1 RING domain

S Shukla, W Ying, F Gray, Y Yao, ML Simes… - Nature chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) is an essential chromatin-modifying
complex that monoubiquitinates histone H2A and is involved in maintaining the repressed …

Ubiquitin‐specific proteases 7 and 11 modulate Polycomb regulation of the INK4a tumour suppressor

GN Maertens, S El Messaoudi‐Aubert, S Elderkin… - The EMBO …, 2010 - embopress.org
An important facet of transcriptional repression by Polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) is
the mono‐ubiquitination of histone H2A by the combined action of the Posterior sex combs …

Chromatin regulatory mechanisms in pluripotency

JA Lessard, GR Crabtree - Annual review of cell and …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Stem cells of all types are characterized by a stable, heritable state permissive of multiple
developmental pathways. The past five years have seen remarkable advances in …