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 …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical biology of protein arginine modifications in epigenetic regulation

J Fuhrmann, KW Clancy, PR Thompson - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) of histone proteins are a hallmark of epigenetic
regulation. They provide a mechanism to modulate chromatin structure and constitute the …

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 …

MTAP deletions in cancer create vulnerability to targeting of the MAT2A/PRMT5/RIOK1 axis

K Marjon, MJ Cameron, P Quang, MF Clasquin… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Homozygous deletions of p16/CDKN2A are prevalent in cancer, and these mutations
commonly involve co-deletion of adjacent genes, including methylthioadenosine …

Crystal structure of the human PRMT5: MEP50 complex

S Antonysamy, Z Bonday… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) play important roles in several cellular
processes, including signaling, gene regulation, and transport of proteins and nucleic acids …

Proteomics profiling of arginine methylation defines PRMT5 substrate specificity

D Musiani, J Bok, E Massignani, L Wu, T Tabaglio… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) catalyze arginine methylation on both
chromatin-bound and cytoplasmic proteins. Accumulating evidence supports the …

Human protein arginine methyltransferase 7 (PRMT7) is a type III enzyme forming ω-NG-monomethylated arginine residues

CI Zurita-Lopez, T Sandberg, R Kelly… - Journal of Biological …, 2012 - ASBMB
Full-length human protein arginine methyltransferase 7 (PRMT7) expressed as a fusion
protein in Escherichia coli was initially found to generate only ω-N G-monomethylated …

Biochemistry and regulation of the protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs)

Y Morales, T Cáceres, K May, JM Hevel - Archives of biochemistry and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Many key cellular processes can be regulated by the seemingly simple addition of one, or
two, methyl groups to arginine residues by the nine known mammalian protein arginine …

Targeting methyltransferase PRMT5 eliminates leukemia stem cells in chronic myelogenous leukemia

Y Jin, J Zhou, F Xu, B Jin, L Cui, Y Wang… - The Journal of …, 2016 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Imatinib-insensitive leukemia stem cells (LSCs) are believed to be responsible for resistance
to BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitors and relapse of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) …

Readers of histone methylarginine marks

S Gayatri, MT Bedford - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2014 - Elsevier
Arginine methylation is a common posttranslational modification (PTM) that alters roughly
0.5% of all arginine residues in the cells. There are three types of arginine methylation …