Lysine acetylation goes global: from epigenetics to metabolism and therapeutics

I Ali, RJ Conrad, E Verdin, M Ott - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Post-translational acetylation of lysine residues has emerged as a key regulatory
mechanism in all eukaryotic organisms. Originally discovered in 1963 as a unique …

Writers and readers of histone acetylation: structure, mechanism, and inhibition

R Marmorstein, MM Zhou - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Histone acetylation marks are written by histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and read by
bromodomains (BrDs), and less commonly by other protein modules. These proteins …

Inhibitors of histone acetyltransferases KAT6A/B induce senescence and arrest tumour growth

JB Baell, DJ Leaver, SJ Hermans, GL Kelly… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Acetylation of histones by lysine acetyltransferases (KATs) is essential for chromatin
organization and function. Among the genes coding for the MYST family of KATs (KAT5 …

Virtual ligand screening of the p300/CBP histone acetyltransferase: identification of a selective small molecule inhibitor

EM Bowers, G Yan, C Mukherjee, A Orry, L Wang… - Chemistry & biology, 2010 - cell.com
The histone acetyltransferase (HAT) p300/CBP is a transcriptional coactivator implicated in
many gene regulatory pathways and protein acetylation events. Although p300 inhibitors …

Histone modifying enzymes: structures, mechanisms, and specificities

R Marmorstein, RC Trievel - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2009 - Elsevier
Histone modifying enzymes catalyze the addition or removal of an array of covalent
modifications in histone and non-histone proteins. Within the context of chromatin, these …

The key roles of the lysine acetyltransferases KAT6A and KAT6B in physiology and pathology

N Wiesel-Motiuk, YG Assaraf - Drug Resistance Updates, 2020 - Elsevier
Histone modifications and more specifically ε-lysine acylations are key epigenetic regulators
that control chromatin structure and gene transcription, thereby impacting on various …

Catalysis and substrate selection by histone/protein lysine acetyltransferases

CE Berndsen, JM Denu - Current opinion in structural biology, 2008 - Elsevier
Reversible protein acetylation is controlled by the opposing actions of protein lysine
acetyltransferases and deacetylations. Recent developments on the structure and …

MORF and MOZ acetyltransferases target unmethylated CpG islands through the winged helix domain

DC Becht, BJ Klein, A Kanai, SM Jang, KL Cox… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Human acetyltransferases MOZ and MORF are implicated in chromosomal translocations
associated with aggressive leukemias. Oncogenic translocations involve the far amino …

Molecular architecture of quartet MOZ/MORF histone acetyltransferase complexes

M Ullah, N Pelletier, L Xiao, SP Zhao… - … and cellular biology, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
The monocytic leukemia zinc finger protein MOZ and the related factor MORF form
tetrameric complexes with ING5 (inhibitor of growth 5), EAF6 (Esa1-associated factor 6 …

HBO1 catalyzes lysine lactylation and mediates histone H3K9la to regulate gene transcription

Z Niu, C Chen, S Wang, C Lu, Z Wu, A Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Lysine lactylation (Kla) links metabolism and gene regulation and plays a key role in
multiple biological processes. However, the regulatory mechanism and functional …