TET-mediated active DNA demethylation: mechanism, function and beyond

X Wu, Y Zhang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
In mammals, DNA methylation in the form of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) can be actively
reversed to unmodified cytosine (C) through TET dioxygenase-mediated oxidation of 5mC to …

An epigenetic role of mitochondria in cancer

Y Liu, C Chen, X Wang, Y Sun, J Zhang, J Chen, Y Shi - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mitochondria are not only the main energy supplier but are also the cell metabolic center
regulating multiple key metaborates that play pivotal roles in epigenetics regulation. These …

[HTML][HTML] Maladaptive innate immune training of myelopoiesis links inflammatory comorbidities

X Li, H Wang, X Yu, G Saha, L Kalafati, C Ioannidis… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Bone marrow (BM)-mediated trained innate immunity (TII) is a state of heightened immune
responsiveness of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) and their myeloid …

Protein O-GlcNAcylation: emerging mechanisms and functions

X Yang, K Qian - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
O-GlcNAcylation—the attachment of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) moieties to
cytoplasmic, nuclear and mitochondrial proteins—is a post-translational modification that …

Metabolic reprogramming and epigenetic modifications on the path to cancer

L Sun, H Zhang, P Gao - Protein & cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Metabolic rewiring and epigenetic remodeling, which are closely linked and reciprocally
regulate each other, are among the well-known cancer hallmarks. Recent evidence …

Regulation of transposable elements by DNA modifications

Ö Deniz, JM Frost, MR Branco - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Maintenance of genome stability requires control over the expression of transposable
elements (TEs), whose activity can have substantial deleterious effects on the host …

Tet2 is required to resolve inflammation by recruiting Hdac2 to specifically repress IL-6

Q Zhang, K Zhao, Q Shen, Y Han, Y Gu, X Li, D Zhao… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Epigenetic modifiers have fundamental roles in defining unique cellular identity through the
establishment and maintenance of lineage-specific chromatin and methylation status …

Fueling the fire: emerging role of the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway in cancer

NM Akella, L Ciraku, MJ Reginato - BMC biology, 2019 - Springer
Altered metabolism and deregulated cellular energetics are now considered a hallmark of
all cancers. Glucose, glutamine, fatty acids, and amino acids are the primary drivers of tumor …

Hijacked in cancer: the KMT2 (MLL) family of methyltransferases

RC Rao, Y Dou - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Histone–lysine N-methyltransferase 2 (KMT2) family proteins methylate lysine 4 on
the histone H3 tail at important regulatory regions in the genome and thereby impart crucial …

Role of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine protein modification in cellular (patho)physiology

JC Chatham, J Zhang, AR Wende - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
In the mid-1980s, the identification of serine and threonine residues on nuclear and
cytoplasmic proteins modified by a N-acetylglucosamine moiety (O-GlcNAc) via an O …