Long noncoding RNAs in cancer: mechanisms of action and technological advancements

N Bartonicek, JLV Maag, ME Dinger - Molecular cancer, 2016 - Springer
The previous decade has seen long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) rise from obscurity to
being defined as a category of genetic elements, leaving its mark on the field of cancer …

Critical roles of non-histone protein lysine methylation in human tumorigenesis

R Hamamoto, V Saloura, Y Nakamura - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Several protein lysine methyltransferases and demethylases have been identified to have
critical roles in histone modification. A large body of evidence has indicated that their …

[HTML][HTML] A bivalent chromatin structure marks key developmental genes in embryonic stem cells

BE Bernstein, TS Mikkelsen, X Xie, M Kamal… - Cell, 2006 - cell.com
The most highly conserved noncoding elements (HCNEs) in mammalian genomes cluster
within regions enriched for genes encoding developmentally important transcription factors …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative interaction proteomics and genome-wide profiling of epigenetic histone marks and their readers

M Vermeulen, HC Eberl, F Matarese, H Marks… - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
Summary Trimethyl-lysine (me3) modifications on histones are the most stable epigenetic
marks and they control chromatin-mediated regulation of gene expression. Here, we …

Genome-wide mapping of Polycomb target genes unravels their roles in cell fate transitions

AP Bracken, N Dietrich, D Pasini… - Genes & …, 2006 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The Polycomb group (PcG) proteins form chromatin-modifying complexes that are essential
for embryonic development and stem cell renewal and are commonly deregulated in cancer …

Polycomb silencing mechanisms and the management of genomic programmes

YB Schwartz, V Pirrotta - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2007 - nature.com
Polycomb group complexes, which are known to regulate homeotic genes, have now been
found to control hundreds of other genes in mammals and insects. First believed to …

Mouse polycomb proteins bind differentially to methylated histone H3 and RNA and are enriched in facultative heterochromatin

E Bernstein, EM Duncan, O Masui, J Gil… - … and cellular biology, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The chromodomain (CD) of the Drosophila Polycomb protein exhibits preferential binding
affinity for histone H3 when trimethylated at lysine 27. Here we have investigated the five …

Recruitment of PRC1 function at the initiation of X inactivation independent of PRC2 and silencing

S Schoeftner, AK Sengupta, S Kubicek… - The EMBO …, 2006 - embopress.org
In mammals X inactivation is initiated by expression of Xist RNA and involves the recruitment
of Polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) and 2 (PRC2), which mediate chromosome‐wide …

Polycomb/Trithorax response elements and epigenetic memory of cell identity

L Ringrose, R Paro - 2007 - journals.biologists.com
Polycomb/Trithorax group response elements (PRE/TREs) are fascinating chromosomal
pieces. Just a few hundred base pairs long, these elements can remember and maintain the …

Silencing by plant Polycomb‐group genes requires dispersed trimethylation of histone H3 at lysine 27

D Schubert, L Primavesi, A Bishopp, G Roberts… - The EMBO …, 2006 - embopress.org
The plant Polycomb‐group (Pc‐G) protein CURLY LEAF (CLF) is required to repress targets
such as AGAMOUS (AG) and SHOOTMERISTEMLESS (STM). Using chromatin …