[HTML][HTML] Small molecules in targeted cancer therapy: advances, challenges, and future perspectives

L Zhong, Y Li, L Xiong, W Wang, M Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Due to the advantages in efficacy and safety compared with traditional chemotherapy drugs,
targeted therapeutic drugs have become mainstream cancer treatments. Since the first …

Targeting EZH2 in cancer

KH Kim, CWM Roberts - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Recent genomic studies have resulted in an emerging understanding of the role of
chromatin regulators in the development of cancer. EZH2, a histone methyl transferase …

WD40 repeat domain proteins: a novel target class?

M Schapira, M Tyers, M Torrent… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2017 - nature.com
Antagonism of protein–protein interactions (PPIs) with small molecules is becoming more
feasible as a therapeutic approach. Successful PPI inhibitors tend to target proteins …

An allosteric PRC2 inhibitor targeting the H3K27me3 binding pocket of EED

W Qi, K Zhao, J Gu, Y Huang, Y Wang, H Zhang… - Nature chemical …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) consists of three core subunits, EZH2, EED
and SUZ12, and plays pivotal roles in transcriptional regulation. The catalytic subunit EZH2 …

PRC2. 1 and PRC2. 2 synergize to coordinate H3K27 trimethylation

E Healy, M Mucha, E Glancy, DJ Fitzpatrick, E Conway… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Summary Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is composed of EED, SUZ12, and EZH1/2
and mediates mono-, di-, and trimethylation of histone H3 at lysine 27. At least two …

Inhibitors of protein methyltransferases and demethylases

HU Kaniskan, ML Martini, J Jin - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Post-translational modifications of histones by protein methyltransferases (PMTs) and
histone demethylases (KDMs) play an important role in the regulation of gene expression …

Degradation of polycomb repressive complex 2 with an EED-targeted bivalent chemical degrader

F Potjewyd, AMW Turner, J Beri, JM Rectenwald… - Cell chemical …, 2020 - cell.com
Protein degradation via the use of bivalent chemical degraders provides an alternative
strategy to block protein function and assess the biological roles of putative drug targets …

Treatment resistance in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

MY He, R Kridel - Leukemia, 2021 - nature.com
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a highly heterogeneous disease and represents
the most common subtype of lymphoma. Although 60–70% of all patients can be cured by …

Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) inhibitors

N Gulati, W Béguelin, L Giulino-Roth - Leukemia & lymphoma, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Dysregulation of the histone methyltransferase EZH2 plays a critical role in the development
of a variety of malignancies including B-cell lymphomas. As a result, a series of small …

Identification of (R)-N-((4-Methoxy-6-methyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydropyridin-3-yl)methyl)-2-methyl-1-(1-(1-(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)piperidin-4-yl)ethyl)-1H-indole-3 …

RG Vaswani, VS Gehling, LA Dakin… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) has been shown to play a major role in
transcriptional silencing in part by installing methylation marks on lysine 27 of histone 3 …