Asymmetric and symmetric protein arginine methylation in methionine-addicted human cancer cells

AG Holtz, TL Lowe, Y Aoki, Y Kubota, RM Hoffman… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The methionine addiction of cancer cells is known as the Hoffman effect. While non-cancer
cells in culture can utilize homocysteine in place of methionine for cellular growth, most …

The linkage of methionine addiction, overmethylation of histone H3 lysines and malignancy demonstrated when cancer cells revert to methionine-independence

J Yamamoto, S Inubushi, Q Han, Y Tashiro… - 2020 - europepmc.org
Methionine addiction is a fundamental and general hallmark of cancer and is an area of
current intense interest. Methionine addiction results from the overuse of methionine by …

[HTML][HTML] Linkage of methionine addiction, histone lysine hypermethylation, and malignancy

J Yamamoto, S Inubushi, Q Han, Y Tashiro… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Methionine addiction, found in all types of cancer investigated, is because of the overuse of
methionine by cancer cells for excess transmethylation reactions. In the present study, we …

Histone methylation status of H3K4me3 and H3K9me3 under methionine restriction is unstable in methionine-addicted cancer cells, but stable in normal cells

J Yamamoto, Q Han, S Inubushi, N Sugisawa… - Biochemical and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Methionine addiction is a fundamental and general hallmark of cancer. Methionine addiction
prevents cancer cells, but not normal cells from proliferation under methionine restriction …

Reversion from methionine addiction to methionine independence results in loss of tumorigenic potential of highly-malignant lung-cancer cells

J Yamamoto, Y Aoki, Q Han, N Sugisawa… - Anticancer …, 2021 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Background/Aim: Methionine addiction, a fundamental and general hallmark of cancer, is
due to the excess use of methionine for transmethylation, and is described as the Hoffman …

Reversion of methionine addiction of osteosarcoma cells to methionine independence results in loss of malignancy, modulation of the epithelial-mesenchymal …

Y Aoki, Q Han, Y Tome, J Yamamoto, Y Kubota… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Methionine addiction, a fundamental and general hallmark of cancer, known as the Hoffman
Effect, is due to altered use of methionine for increased and aberrant transmethylation …

[HTML][HTML] Histone H3 lysine-trimethylation markers are decreased by recombinant methioninase and increased by methotrexate at concentrations which inhibit …

Y Aoki, Y Tome, Q Han, J Yamamoto, K Hamada… - … and Biophysics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Methionine addiction is a fundamental and general hallmark of cancer cells, which require
exogenous methionine, despite their ability to synthesize normal amounts of methionine …

Altered methionine metabolism in cancer cells

RM Hoffman, PH Stern, DW Coalson… - … Dependence of Cancer …, 2019 - Springer
Many different types of cancer cells have been shown to be methionine (MET) dependent.
Cancer cells, unlike normal cells, grow poorly or not at all when MET is restricted. Cancer …

Cancer-specific overmethylation of histone H3 lysines is necessary for methionine addiction and malignancy

J Yamamoto, S Inubushi, Q Han, Y Tashiro, Y Sun… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Methionine addiction is a fundamental and general hallmark of cancer. Methionine addiction
results from the overuse of methionine by cancer cells for excess transmethylation reactions …

The combination of methioninase and ethionine exploits methionine addiction to selectively eradicate osteosarcoma cells and not normal cells and synergistically …

Y Aoki, Y Kubota, Q Han, N Masaki… - Cancer Genomics & …, 2023 - cgp.iiarjournals.org
Abstract Background/Aim: The fundamental and general hallmark of cancer cells,
methionine addiction, termed the Hoffman effect, is due to overuse of methionine for highly …