Cellular pathways influenced by protein arginine methylation: Implications for cancer

J Xu, S Richard - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Arginine methylation is an influential post-translational modification occurring on histones,
RNA binding proteins, and many other cellular proteins, affecting their function by altering …

Post‐translational modifications of histones: Mechanisms, biological functions, and therapeutic targets

R Liu, J Wu, H Guo, W Yao, S Li, Y Lu, Y Jia… - MedComm, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Histones are DNA‐binding basic proteins found in chromosomes. After the histone
translation, its amino tail undergoes various modifications, such as methylation, acetylation …

Therapeutic advantage of targeting PRMT5 in combination with chemotherapies or EGFR/HER2 inhibitors in triple-negative breast cancers

R Dakroub, S Huard, Y Hajj-Younes… - … Cancer: Targets and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive breast cancer
subgroup characterized by a high risk of resistance to chemotherapies and high relapse …

Comparative Study of Adenosine Analogs as Inhibitors of Protein Arginine Methyltransferases and a Clostridioides difficile-Specific DNA Adenine Methyltransferase

J Zhou, Y Deng, ID Iyamu, JR Horton, D Yu… - ACS Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
S-Adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM) analogs are adaptable tools for studying and therapeutically
inhibiting SAM-dependent methyltransferases (MTases). Some MTases play significant roles …

[HTML][HTML] Spliceosomal vulnerability of MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma is contingent on PRMT5-mediated regulation of epitranscriptomic and metabolomic pathways

J Bojko, M Kollareddy, M Szemes, J Bellamy, E Poon… - Cancer Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Approximately 50% of poor prognosis neuroblastomas arise due to MYCN over-expression.
We previously demonstrated that MYCN and PRMT5 proteins interact and PRMT5 …

Repurposing epigenetic inhibitors to target the Clostridioides difficile-specific DNA adenine methyltransferase and sporulation regulator CamA

J Zhou, JR Horton, D Yu, R Ren, RM Blumenthal… - Epigenetics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Epigenetically targeted therapeutic development, particularly for SAM-dependent
methylations of DNA, mRNA and histones has been proceeding rapidly for cancer …

Arginine methylation in the epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition

J Qin, J Xu - The FEBS journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Epithelial cells acquire mesenchymal characteristics during embryonic development, wound
healing, fibrosis, and in cancer in a processed termed epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition …

Protein Arginine Methyltransferases in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: New Molecular Targets for Therapy

K Bhandari, WQ Ding - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a lethal malignant disease with a low 5-year
overall survival rate. It is the third-leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United …

Novel PRMT5 inhibitors for treating cancer

RW Sabnis - ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Title. Novel PRMT5 Inhibitors Patent Publication Number. WO 2021/163344 A1 Publication
Date. August 19, 2021 Priority Application. US 62/975,258 Priority Date. February 12, 2020 …

Identification of PRMT5 as a therapeutic target in cholangiocarcinoma

J Elurbide, L Colyn, MU Latasa, I Uriarte, S Mariani… - Gut, 2024 - gut.bmj.com
Background Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a very difficult-to-treat cancer. Chemotherapies
are little effective and response to immune checkpoint inhibitors is limited. Therefore, new …