Inhibitors of protein methyltransferases and demethylases

HU Kaniskan, ML Martini, J Jin - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Post-translational modifications of histones by protein methyltransferases (PMTs) and
histone demethylases (KDMs) play an important role in the regulation of gene expression …

Sound of silence: the properties and functions of repressive Lys methyltransferases

C Mozzetta, E Boyarchuk, J Pontis… - Nature Reviews Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
The methylation of histone Lys residues by Lys methyltransferases (KMTs) regulates
chromatin organization and either activates or represses gene expression, depending on …

The histone H3 lysine 9 methyltransferases G9a and GLP regulate polycomb repressive complex 2-mediated gene silencing

C Mozzetta, J Pontis, L Fritsch, P Robin, M Portoso… - Molecular cell, 2014 - cell.com
G9a/GLP and Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) are two major epigenetic silencing
machineries, which in particular methylate histone H3 on lysines 9 and 27 (H3K9 and …

UTX and MLL4 coordinately regulate transcriptional programs for cell proliferation and invasiveness in breast cancer cells

JH Kim, A Sharma, SS Dhar, SH Lee, B Gu, CH Chan… - Cancer research, 2014 - AACR
Histone methyltransferases and demethylases reversibly modulate histone lysine
methylation, which is considered a key epigenetic mark associated with gene regulation …

Targeting histone lysine methylation in cancer

J McGrath, P Trojer - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2015 - Elsevier
Within the vast landscape of histone modifications lysine methylation has gained increasing
attention because of its profound regulatory potential. The methylation of lysine residues on …

G9a is essential for epigenetic silencing of K+ channel genes in acute-to-chronic pain transition

G Laumet, J Garriga, SR Chen, Y Zhang, DP Li… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Neuropathic pain is a debilitating clinical problem and difficult to treat. Nerve injury causes a
long-lasting reduction in K+ channel expression in the dorsal root ganglion (DRG), but little …

Epigenetic regulation of phosphodiesterases 2A and 3A underlies compromised β-adrenergic signaling in an iPSC model of dilated cardiomyopathy

H Wu, J Lee, LG Vincent, Q Wang, M Gu, F Lan… - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
Summary β-adrenergic signaling pathways mediate key aspects of cardiac function. Its
dysregulation is associated with a range of cardiac diseases, including dilated …

Tug of war: adding and removing histone lysine methylation in Arabidopsis

J Xiao, US Lee, D Wagner - Current opinion in plant biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Genome wide distribution and function of H3K4, K27, K36me in plant and
animal.•Summary of histone lysine methylation writer, eraser and reader in plant and …

G9a, a multipotent regulator of gene expression

SR Shankar, AG Bahirvani, VK Rao, N Bharathy… - Epigenetics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Lysine methylation of histone and non-histone substrates by the methyltransferase G9a is
mostly associated with transcriptional repression. Recent studies, however, have highlighted …

The histone H3K4 demethylase JMJ16 represses leaf senescence in Arabidopsis

P Liu, S Zhang, B Zhou, X Luo, XF Zhou, B Cai… - The plant …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Leaf senescence is governed by a complex regulatory network involving the dynamic
reprogramming of gene expression. Age-dependent induction of senescence-associated …