Natural products as anticancer agents: Current status and future perspectives

A Naeem, P Hu, M Yang, J Zhang, Y Liu, W Zhu… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Natural products have been an invaluable and useful source of anticancer agents over the
years. Several compounds have been synthesized from natural products by modifying their …

Medicinal Profile, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacological Activities of Murraya koenigii and Its Primary Bioactive Compounds

R Balakrishnan, D Vijayraja, SH Jo, P Ganesan… - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
The discovery of several revitalizing molecules that can stop or reduce the pathology of a
wide range of diseases will be considered a major breakthrough of the present time …

Aberrant DNA methylation in melanoma: biomarker and therapeutic opportunities

G Micevic, N Theodosakis, M Bosenberg - Clinical epigenetics, 2017 - Springer
Aberrant DNA methylation is an epigenetic hallmark of melanoma, known to play important
roles in melanoma formation and progression. Recent advances in genome-wide …

Natural bioactive compounds targeting epigenetic pathways in cancer: a review on alkaloids, terpenoids, quinones, and isothiocyanates

N El Omari, S Bakrim, M Bakha, JM Lorenzo… - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cancer is one of the most complex and systemic diseases affecting the health of mankind,
causing major deaths with a significant increase. This pathology is caused by several risk …

DiseaseMeth version 2.0: a major expansion and update of the human disease methylation database

Y Xiong, Y Wei, Y Gu, S Zhang, J Lyu… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The human disease methylation database (DiseaseMeth, http://bioinfo. hrbmu. edu.
cn/diseasemeth/) is an interactive database that aims to present the most complete …

[HTML][HTML] Epidrug repurposing: discovering new faces of old acquaintances in cancer therapy

M Montalvo-Casimiro, R González-Barrios… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Gene mutations are strongly associated with tumor progression and are well known in
cancer development. However, recently discovered epigenetic alterations have shown the …

DNMT1-mediated epigenetic silencing of TRAF6 promotes prostate cancer tumorigenesis and metastasis by enhancing EZH2 stability

Z Li, B Li, H Yu, P Wang, W Wang, P Hou, M Li, S Chu… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
A plethora of studies have shown that both DNMT1 and EZH2 have great effects on the
progression of a variety of cancers. However, it remains unclear whether the expression …

Large-scale RNA-Seq transcriptome analysis of 4043 cancers and 548 normal tissue controls across 12 TCGA cancer types

L Peng, XW Bian, DK Li, C Xu, GM Wang, QY Xia… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) has accrued RNA-Seq-based transcriptome
data for more than 4000 cancer tissue samples across 12 cancer types, translating these …

Biological processes and signal transduction pathways regulated by the protein methyltransferase SETD7 and their significance in cancer

IAA Batista, LA Helguero - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2018 - nature.com
Protein methyltransferases have been shown to methylate histone and non-histone proteins,
leading to regulation of several biological processes that control cell homeostasis. Over the …

[HTML][HTML] Repeated PM2. 5 exposure inhibits BEAS-2B cell P53 expression through ROS-Akt-DNMT3B pathway-mediated promoter hypermethylation

W Zhou, D Tian, J He, Y Wang, L Zhang, L Cui… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) has been reported to be closely
associated with the increased lung cancer risk in populations, but the mechanisms …