The chemical biology of reversible lysine post-translational modifications

ZA Wang, PA Cole - Cell chemical biology, 2020 - cell.com
Lysine (Lys) residues in proteins undergo a wide range of reversible post-translational
modifications (PTMs), which can regulate enzyme activities, chromatin structure, protein …

Predicting prime editing efficiency and product purity by deep learning

N Mathis, A Allam, L Kissling, KF Marquart… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Prime editing is a versatile genome editing tool but requires experimental optimization of the
prime editing guide RNA (pegRNA) to achieve high editing efficiency. Here we conducted a …

A critical analysis of methods used to investigate the cellular uptake and subcellular localization of RNA therapeutics

K Deprey, N Batistatou, JA Kritzer - Nucleic acids research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
RNA therapeutics are a promising strategy to treat genetic diseases caused by the
overexpression or aberrant splicing of a specific protein. The field has seen major strides in …

PRC2. 1-and PRC2. 2-specific accessory proteins drive recruitment of different forms of canonical PRC1

E Glancy, C Wang, E Tuck, E Healy, S Amato… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) mediates H3K27me3 deposition, which is
thought to recruit canonical PRC1 (cPRC1) via chromodomain-containing CBX proteins to …

Assessing the cell permeability of bivalent chemical degraders using the chloroalkane penetration assay

CA Foley, F Potjewyd, KN Lamb, LI James… - ACS chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Bivalent chemical degraders provide a catalytic route to selectively degrade disease-
associated proteins. By linking target-specific ligands with E3 ubiquitin ligase recruiting …

Polycomb-dependent histone H2A ubiquitination links developmental disorders with cancer

S Tamburri, E Conway, D Pasini - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
Cell identity is tightly controlled by specific transcriptional programs which require post-
translational modifications of histones. These histone modifications allow the establishment …

Super-enhancers, phase-separated condensates, and 3D genome organization in cancer

SC Tang, U Vijayakumar, Y Zhang, MJ Fullwood - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Gene expression is primarily controlled at the level of transcription, largely
due to binding of transcription factors to specific sites on DNA, namely super-enhancers and …

Chemical inhibitors targeting histone methylation readers

X Huang, Y Chen, Q Xiao, X Shang, Y Liu - Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2024 - Elsevier
Histone methylation reader domains are protein modules that recognize specific histone
methylation marks, such as methylated or unmethylated lysine or arginine residues on …

Chemical tools targeting readers of lysine methylation

G Ortiz, TG Kutateladze, DG Fujimori - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Reader domains that recognize methylated lysine and arginine residues on histones play a
role in the recruitment, stabilization, and regulation of chromatin regulatory proteins …

Recent progress on small molecules targeting epigenetic complexes

Y Itoh, Y Takada, Y Yamashita, T Suzuki - Current Opinion in Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
For many years, drug discovery studies in the field of epigenetics have focused mainly on
specific enzymes such as histone deacetylases (HDACs). However, recently there has been …