Nuclear functions of actin

N Visa, P Percipalle - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2010 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Actin participates in several essential processes in the cell nucleus. Even though the
presence of actin in the nucleus was proposed more than 30 years ago, nuclear processes …

Soft tissue sarcoma cancer stem cells: an overview

KC Genadry, S Pietrobono, R Rota… - Frontiers in oncology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) are an uncommon group of solid tumors that can arise
throughout the human lifespan. Despite their commonality as non-bony cancers that develop …

Regulation of muscle development by DPF3, a novel histone acetylation and methylation reader of the BAF chromatin remodeling complex

M Lange, B Kaynak, UB Forster, M Tönjes… - Genes & …, 2008 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Chromatin remodeling and histone modifications facilitate access of transcription factors to
DNA by promoting the unwinding and destabilization of histone–DNA interactions. We …

TGFBI Deficiency Predisposes Mice to Spontaneous Tumor Development

Y Zhang, G Wen, G Shao, C Wang, C Lin, H Fang… - Cancer research, 2009 - AACR
Loss of TGFBI, a secreted protein induced by transforming growth factor-β, has been
implicated in cell proliferation, tumor progression, and angiogenesis by in vitro studies …

Regulating a master regulator: establishing tissue-specific gene expression in skeletal muscle

A Aziz, QC Liu, FJ Dilworth - Epigenetics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
MyoD is a master regulator of the skeletal muscle gene expression program. ChIP-Seq
analysis has recently revealed that MyoD binds to a large number of genomic loci in …

The mechanisms of action of chromatin remodelers and implications in development and disease

RK Sahu, S Singh, RS Tomar - Biochemical Pharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
The eukaryotic genetic material is packaged in the form of chromatin by wrapping DNA
around nucleosomes. Cells maintain chromatin in a dynamic state by utilising various ATP …

Specific phosphorylation of histone demethylase KDM3A determines target gene expression in response to heat shock

M Cheng, Y Zhang, C Cao, W Zhang, Y Zhang… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Histone lysine (K) residues, which are modified by methyl-and acetyl-transferases, diversely
regulate RNA synthesis. Unlike the ubiquitously activating effect of histone K acetylation, the …

[HTML][HTML] An emerging role for bromodomain-containing proteins in chromatin regulation and transcriptional control of adipogenesis

GV Denis, BS Nikolajczyk, GR Schnitzler - FEBS letters, 2010 - Elsevier
Transcriptional co-activators, co-repressors and chromatin remodeling machines are
essential elements in the transcriptional programs directed by the master adipogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Genetics, epigenetics and redox homeostasis in rhabdomyosarcoma: Emerging targets and therapeutics

A Pal, HY Chiu, R Taneja - Redox Biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma accounting for 5–8% of
malignant tumours in children and adolescents. Children with high risk disease have poor …

A novel human muscle cell model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy created by CRISPR/Cas9 and evaluation of antisense-mediated exon skipping

T Shimo, K Hosoki, Y Nakatsuji, T Yokota… - Journal of human …, 2018 - nature.com
Oligonucleotide-mediated splicing modulation is a promising therapeutic approach for
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Recently, eteplirsen, a phosphorodiamidate …