The roles of Polycomb repressive complexes in mammalian development and cancer

A Piunti, A Shilatifard - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
More than 80 years ago, the first Polycomb-related phenotype was identified in Drosophila
melanogaster. Later, a group of diverse genes collectively called Polycomb group (PcG) …

[HTML][HTML] The crucial roles of Bmi-1 in cancer: implications in pathogenesis, metastasis, drug resistance, and targeted therapies

J Xu, L Li, P Shi, H Cui, L Yang - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
B-cell-specific Moloney murine leukemia virus integration region 1 (Bmi-1, also known as
RNF51 or PCGF4) is one of the important members of the PcG gene family, and is involved …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting BMI-1 in B cells restores effective humoral immune responses and controls chronic viral infection

A Di Pietro, J Polmear, L Cooper, T Damelang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ineffective antibody-mediated responses are a key characteristic of chronic viral infection.
However, our understanding of the intrinsic mechanisms that drive this dysregulation are …

[HTML][HTML] Senescence induced by BMI1 inhibition is a therapeutic vulnerability in H3K27M-mutant DIPG

I Balakrishnan, E Danis, A Pierce, K Madhavan… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is an incurable brain tumor of childhood
characterized by histone mutations at lysine 27, which results in epigenomic dysregulation …

[HTML][HTML] Super-enhancers, phase-separated condensates, and 3D genome organization in cancer

SC Tang, U Vijayakumar, Y Zhang, MJ Fullwood - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Gene expression is primarily controlled at the level of transcription, largely
due to binding of transcription factors to specific sites on DNA, namely super-enhancers and …

[HTML][HTML] Developing targeted therapies that exploit aberrant histone ubiquitination in cancer

LMP Jeusset, KJ McManus - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Histone ubiquitination is a critical epigenetic mechanism regulating DNA-driven processes
such as gene transcription and DNA damage repair. Importantly, the cellular machinery …

[HTML][HTML] Proteogenomic analysis of enriched HGSOC tumor epithelium identifies prognostic signatures and therapeutic vulnerabilities

NW Bateman, T Abulez, AR Soltis, A McPherson… - NPJ precision …, 2024 - nature.com
We performed a deep proteogenomic analysis of bulk tumor and laser microdissection
enriched tumor cell populations from high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) tissue …

[HTML][HTML] A novel BMI-1 inhibitor QW24 for the treatment of stem-like colorectal cancer

J Wang, Y Xing, Y Wang, Y He, L Wang, S Peng… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - Springer
Background Cancer-initiating cell (CIC), a functionally homogeneous stem-like cell
population, is resonsible for driving the tumor maintenance and metastasis, and is a source …

Roles of BMI1 in the initiation, progression, and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

R Wang, H Fan, M Sun, Z Lv… - Technology in Cancer …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Liver cancer has high rates of morbidity and mortality, and its treatment is a global health
challenge. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) accounts for 90% of all primary liver cancer …

Recent progress on small molecules targeting epigenetic complexes

Y Itoh, Y Takada, Y Yamashita, T Suzuki - Current Opinion in Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
For many years, drug discovery studies in the field of epigenetics have focused mainly on
specific enzymes such as histone deacetylases (HDACs). However, recently there has been …