Writing, erasing and reading histone lysine methylations

K Hyun, J Jeon, K Park, J Kim - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Histone modifications are key epigenetic regulatory features that have important roles in
many cellular events. Lysine methylations mark various sites on the tail and globular …

Natural products and synthetic analogs as a source of antitumor drugs

J Sharifi-Rad, A Ozleyen, T Boyunegmez Tumer… - Biomolecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease and one of the major issues of health concern,
especially for the public health system globally. Nature is a source of anticancer drugs with …

Salinomycin kills cancer stem cells by sequestering iron in lysosomes

TT Mai, A Hamaï, A Hienzsch, T Cañeque, S Müller… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) represent a subset of cells within tumours that exhibit self-renewal
properties and the capacity to seed tumours. CSCs are typically refractory to conventional …

Histone methylation dynamics and gene regulation occur through the sensing of one-carbon metabolism

SJ Mentch, M Mehrmohamadi, L Huang, X Liu, D Gupta… - Cell metabolism, 2015 - cell.com
Summary S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) and S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) link one-
carbon metabolism to methylation status. However, it is unknown whether regulation of SAM …

Oncometabolite 2-hydroxyglutarate is a competitive inhibitor of α-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases

W Xu, H Yang, Y Liu, Y Yang, P Wang, SH Kim, S Ito… - Cancer cell, 2011 - cell.com
IDH1 and IDH2 mutations occur frequently in gliomas and acute myeloid leukemia, leading
to simultaneous loss and gain of activities in the production of α-ketoglutarate (α-KG) and 2 …

Overcoming intrinsic multidrug resistance in melanoma by blocking the mitochondrial respiratory chain of slow-cycling JARID1Bhigh cells

A Roesch, A Vultur, I Bogeski, H Wang… - Cancer cell, 2013 - cell.com
Despite success with BRAFV600E inhibitors, therapeutic responses in patients with
metastatic melanoma are short-lived because of the acquisition of drug resistance. We …

An inhibitor of KDM5 demethylases reduces survival of drug-tolerant cancer cells

M Vinogradova, VS Gehling, A Gustafson… - Nature chemical …, 2016 - nature.com
The KDM5 family of histone demethylases catalyzes the demethylation of histone H3 on
lysine 4 (H3K4) and is required for the survival of drug-tolerant persister cancer cells (DTPs) …

[HTML][HTML] A temporarily distinct subpopulation of slow-cycling melanoma cells is required for continuous tumor growth

A Roesch, M Fukunaga-Kalabis, EC Schmidt… - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
Melanomas are highly heterogeneous tumors, but the biological significance of their
different subpopulations is not clear. Using the H3K4 demethylase JARID1B (KDM5B/PLU …

Covalent histone modifications—miswritten, misinterpreted and mis-erased in human cancers

P Chi, CD Allis, GG Wang - Nature reviews cancer, 2010 - nature.com
Post-translational modification of histones provides an important regulatory platform for
processes such as gene transcription and DNA damage repair. It has become increasingly …

An update of epigenetic drugs for the treatment of cancers and brain diseases: a comprehensive review

Z Sahafnejad, S Ramazi, A Allahverdi - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Epigenetics has long been recognized as a significant field in biology and is defined as the
investigation of any alteration in gene expression patterns that is not attributed to changes in …