Targeting transcription cycles in cancer

SJ Vervoort, JR Devlin, N Kwiatkowski, M Teng… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Accurate control of gene expression is essential for normal development and dysregulation
of transcription underpins cancer onset and progression. Similar to cell cycle regulation …

MLL-rearranged leukemias—an update on science and clinical approaches

AC Winters, KM Bernt - Frontiers in pediatrics, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The mixed-lineage leukemia 1 (MLL1) gene (now renamed Lysine [K]-specific
MethylTransferase 2A or KMT2A) on chromosome 11q23 is disrupted in a unique group of …

Prediction of histone post-translational modification patterns based on nascent transcription data

Z Wang, AG Chivu, LA Choate, EJ Rice, DC Miller… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The role of histone modifications in transcription remains incompletely understood. Here, we
examine the relationship between histone modifications and transcription using …

Therapeutic implications of menin inhibition in acute leukemias

GC Issa, F Ravandi, CD DiNardo, E Jabbour… - Leukemia, 2021 - nature.com
Menin inhibitors are novel targeted agents currently in clinical development for the treatment
of genetically defined subsets of acute leukemia. Menin has a tumor suppressor function in …

Variant PRC1 complex-dependent H2A ubiquitylation drives PRC2 recruitment and polycomb domain formation

NP Blackledge, AM Farcas, T Kondo, HW King… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Chromatin modifying activities inherent to polycomb repressive complexes PRC1 and PRC2
play an essential role in gene regulation, cellular differentiation, and development. However …

A double take on bivalent promoters

P Voigt, WW Tee, D Reinberg - Genes & development, 2013 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Histone modifications and chromatin-associated protein complexes are crucially involved in
the control of gene expression, supervising cell fate decisions and differentiation. Many …

Is H3K4me3 instructive for transcription activation?

FS Howe, H Fischl, SC Murray, J Mellor - Bioessays, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tri‐methylation of lysine 4 on histone H3 (H3K4me3) is a near‐universal chromatin
modification at the transcription start site of active genes in eukaryotes from yeast to man …

[HTML][HTML] Remodeling of the enhancer landscape during macrophage activation is coupled to enhancer transcription

MU Kaikkonen, NJ Spann, S Heinz, CE Romanoski… - Molecular cell, 2013 - cell.com
Recent studies suggest a hierarchical model in which lineage-determining factors act in a
collaborative manner to select and prime cell-specific enhancers, thereby enabling signal …

Primary hyperparathyroidism

JP Bilezikian, NE Cusano, AA Khan, JM Liu… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2016 - nature.com
Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is a common disorder in which parathyroid hormone
(PTH) is excessively secreted from one or more of the four parathyroid glands. A single …

The RNA polymerase II carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) code

D Eick, M Geyer - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
The smallest viable unit of life is the cell. From bacteria to mammals, all cells use the same
nucleic acid-based universal code for the maintenance and inheritance of genetic …