The emerging roles of TERRA in telomere maintenance and genome stability

N Bettin, C Oss Pegorar, E Cusanelli - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
The finding that transcription occurs at chromosome ends has opened new fields of study on
the roles of telomeric transcripts in chromosome end maintenance and genome stability …

Expanding the role of the histone lysine-specific demethylase LSD1 in cancer

B Majello, F Gorini, CD Saccà, S Amente - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Studies of alterations in histone methylation in cancer have led to the identification of histone
methyltransferases and demethylases as novel targets for therapy. Lysine-specific …

Mechanism of crosstalk between the LSD1 demethylase and HDAC1 deacetylase in the CoREST complex

Y Song, L Dagil, L Fairall, N Robertson, M Wu… - Cell Reports, 2020 - cell.com
The transcriptional corepressor complex CoREST is one of seven histone deacetylase
complexes that regulate the genome through controlling chromatin acetylation. The CoREST …

Expression and differential regulation of human TERRA at several chromosome ends

M Feretzaki, PR Nunes, J Lingner - Rna, 2019 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
The telomeric long noncoding RNA TERRA has been implicated in regulating telomere
maintenance by telomerase and homologous recombination, and in influencing telomeric …

[HTML][HTML] Telomere-specific regulation of TERRA and its impact on telomere stability

J Rivosecchi, K Jurikova, E Cusanelli - Seminars in Cell & Developmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
TERRA is a class of telomeric repeat-containing RNAs that are expressed from telomeres in
multiple organisms. TERRA transcripts play key roles in telomere maintenance and their …

Genome instability in multiple myeloma: Facts and factors

AY Aksenova, AS Zhuk, AG Lada, IV Zotova… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Multiple myeloma is an incurable blood cancer caused by the malignant
transformation of immunoglobulin-producing plasma cells. The mechanisms leading to the …

Histone lysine demethylase KDM4B regulates the alternative splicing of the androgen receptor in response to androgen deprivation

L Duan, Z Chen, J Lu, Y Liang, M Wang… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Alternative splicing is emerging as an oncogenic mechanism. In prostate cancer, generation
of constitutively active forms of androgen receptor (AR) variants including AR-V7 plays an …

Structural and functional landscape of FAD-dependent histone lysine demethylases for new drug discovery

Y Song, S Wang, B Yu - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Small molecules targeting the flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD)-dependent histone lysine
demethylase LSD family have displayed therapeutic promise against various diseases. Nine …

Polymyxins and quinazolines are LSD1/KDM1A inhibitors with unusual structural features

V Speranzini, D Rotili, G Ciossani, S Pilotto… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Because of its involvement in the progression of several malignant tumors, the histone lysine-
specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) has become a prominent drug target in modern medicinal …

Telomeric chromatin and TERRA

A Barral, J Déjardin - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Chromatin function in telomeres is poorly understood, but it is generally viewed as
repressive. Yet, telomeric DNA sequences are transcribed into long non-coding RNAs …