Chromatin organisation and human disease

FD Urnov, AP Wolffe - Emerging Therapeutic Targets, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
Targeted alterations in the nucleoprotein fibre of chromatin represent a major mechanism of
gene control in eukarya, and the aetiology of a large number of human pathological …

Chromatin structure and epigenetics

AS Quina, M Buschbeck, L Di Croce - Biochemical pharmacology, 2006 - Elsevier
In eukaryotic cells, the DNA molecule is found in the form of a nucleoprotein complex named
chromatin. The basic unit of the chromatin is the nucleosome, which comprises 147 base …

Epigenetic control of a local chromatin landscape

AM Chiarella, D Lu, NA Hathaway - International journal of molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Proper regulation of the chromatin landscape is essential for maintaining eukaryotic cell
identity and diverse cellular processes. The importance of the epigenome comes, in part …

Chromatin proteomics and epigenetic regulatory circuits

C Bönisch, SM Nieratschker, NK Orfanos… - Expert review of …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Many phenotypic changes of eukaryotic cells due to changes in gene expression depend on
alterations in chromatin structure. Processes involved in the alteration of chromatin are …

Drugging chromatin in cancer: recent advances and novel approaches

SF Cai, CW Chen, SA Armstrong - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Chromatin regulatory mechanisms play a major role in the control of gene expression
programs during normal development and are disrupted in specific disease states …

Chromatin-modulating agents as epigenetic anticancer drugs–'the die is cast'

PA Konstantinopoulos, AG Papavassiliou - Drug Discovery Today, 2006 - infona.pl
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Keynote review: Chromatin control and cancer-drug discovery: realizing the promise

AG Inche, NB La Thangue - Drug discovery today, 2006 - Elsevier
Recent years have seen major advances in elucidating the complexity of chromatin and its
role as an epigenetic regulator of gene expression in eukaryotes. We now have a basic …

Chromatin targeting drugs in cancer and immunity

R Prinjha, A Tarakhovsky - Genes & development, 2013 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Recent advances in the enzymology of transcription and chromatin regulation have led to
the discovery of proteins that play a prominent role in cell differentiation and the …

The language of chromatin modification in human cancers

S Zhao, CD Allis, GG Wang - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
The genetic information of human cells is stored in the context of chromatin, which is
subjected to DNA methylation and various histone modifications. Such a 'language'of …

Chromatin deregulation in disease

AC Mirabella, BM Foster, T Bartke - Chromosoma, 2016 - Springer
The regulation of chromatin by epigenetic mechanisms plays a central role in gene
expression and is essential for development and maintenance of cell identity and function …