Endogenous retroelements and the viral mimicry response in cancer therapy and cellular homeostasis

R Chen, CA Ishak, DD De Carvalho - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Features of the cancer epigenome distinguish cancers from their respective cell of origin and
establish therapeutic vulnerabilities that can be exploited through pharmacologic inhibition …

Lung cancer epigenetics: from knowledge to applications

M Duruisseaux, M Esteller - Seminars in cancer biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Advances in our
understanding of the genomics of lung cancer have led to substantial progress in the …

[HTML][HTML] Diverse silent chromatin states modulate genome compartmentalization and loop extrusion barriers

G Spracklin, N Abdennur, M Imakaev… - Nature structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
The relationships between chromosomal compartmentalization, chromatin state and function
are poorly understood. Here by profiling long-range contact frequencies in HCT116 colon …

[HTML][HTML] Gene body methylation can alter gene expression and is a therapeutic target in cancer

X Yang, H Han, DD De Carvalho, FD Lay, PA Jones… - Cancer cell, 2014 - cell.com
DNA methylation in promoters is well known to silence genes and is the presumed
therapeutic target of methylation inhibitors. Gene body methylation is positively correlated …

Targeted disruption of DNMT1, DNMT3A and DNMT3B in human embryonic stem cells

J Liao, R Karnik, H Gu, MJ Ziller, K Clement… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a key epigenetic modification involved in regulating gene expression
and maintaining genomic integrity. Here we inactivated all three catalytically active DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Intragenic DNA methylation modulates alternative splicing by recruiting MeCP2 to promote exon recognition

AK Maunakea, I Chepelev, K Cui, K Zhao - Cell research, 2013 - nature.com
Although the function of DNA methylation in gene promoter regions is well established in
transcriptional repression, the function of the evolutionarily conserved widespread …

[HTML][HTML] Methyl donor micronutrients that modify DNA methylation and cancer outcome

AM Mahmoud, MM Ali - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism that is essential for regulating gene
transcription. However, aberrant DNA methylation, which is a nearly universal finding in …

Marked for death: targeting epigenetic changes in cancer

SX Pfister, A Ashworth - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2017 - nature.com
In the past few years, it has become clear that mutations in epigenetic regulatory genes are
common in human cancers. Therapeutic strategies are now being developed to target …

Drug resistance to targeted therapeutic strategies in non-small cell lung cancer

W Liu, Y Du, R Wen, M Yang, J Xu - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2020 - Elsevier
Rapidly developing molecular biology techniques have been employed to identify cancer
driver genes in specimens from patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Inhibitors …

Validation of a DNA methylation microarray for 450,000 CpG sites in the human genome

J Sandoval, H Heyn, S Moran, J Serra-Musach… - Epigenetics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
DNA methylation is the most studied epigenetic mark and CpG methylation is central to
many biological processes and human diseases. Since cancer has highlighted the …