KATs off: Biomedical insights from lysine acetyltransferase inhibitors

SD Whedon, PA Cole - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Lysine acetyltransferase (KAT) enzymes including the p300, MYST, and GCN5 families play
major roles in modulating the structure of chromatin and regulating transcription. Because of …

Factors and mechanisms that influence chromatin-mediated enhancer–promoter interactions and transcriptional regulation

S Ito, ND Das, T Umehara, H Koseki - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The physical interactions between enhancers and promoters create
chromatin conformations involved in gene regulation. In cancer cells, the chromatin …

Epigenetic mechanisms to propagate histone acetylation by p300/CBP

M Kikuchi, S Morita, M Wakamori, S Sato… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Histone acetylation is important for the activation of gene transcription but little is known
about its direct read/write mechanisms. Here, we report cryogenic electron microscopy …

Acetylation of histones and non-histone proteins is not a mere consequence of ongoing transcription

T Liebner, S Kilic, J Walter, H Aibara, T Narita… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In all eukaryotes, acetylation of histone lysine residues correlates with transcription
activation. Whether histone acetylation is a cause or consequence of transcription is …

A genome-wide nucleosome-resolution map of promoter-centered interactions in human cells corroborates the enhancer-promoter looping model

AK Golov, AA Gavrilov, N Kaplan, SV Razin - elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
The enhancer-promoter looping model, in which enhancers activate their target genes via
physical contact, has long dominated the field of gene regulation. However, the ubiquity of …

Loss of MLL3/4 decouples enhancer H3K4 monomethylation, H3K27 acetylation, and gene activation during ESC differentiation

RM Boileau, KX Chen, R Blelloch - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Enhancers are essential in defining cell fates through the control of cell type specific gene
expression. Enhancer activation is a multi-step process involving chromatin remodelers and …

[图书][B] Regulation of enhancer dynamics by MLL3/4 in embryonic stem cells

R Boileau - 2023 - search.proquest.com
The acquisition of cell fate is dependent on gene regulatory networks that are regulated
spatiotemporally by cell type specific transcription factors (TFs). In binding to a class of cis …