Cancer as an epigenetic disease: DNA methylation and chromatin alterations in human tumours

M Esteller, JG Herman - The Journal of Pathology: A Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer is an epigenetic disease at the same level that it can be considered a genetic
disease. In fact, epigenetic changes, particularly DNA methylation, are susceptible to …

Aberrant and alternative splicing in cancer

JP Venables - Cancer research, 2004 - AACR
Pre-mRNA splicing is a sophisticated and ubiquitous nuclear process, which is a natural
source of cancer-causing errors in gene expression. Intronic splice site mutations of tumor …

A nuclear long non-coding RNA LINC00618 accelerates ferroptosis in a manner dependent upon apoptosis

Z Wang, X Chen, N Liu, Y Shi, Y Liu, L Ouyang, S Tam… - Molecular Therapy, 2021 - cell.com
Ferroptosis is primarily caused by intracellular iron catalytic activity and lipid peroxidation.
The potential interplay between ferroptosis and apoptosis remains poorly understood. Here …

Dynamic readers for 5-(hydroxy) methylcytosine and its oxidized derivatives

CG Spruijt, F Gnerlich, AH Smits, T Pfaffeneder… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Tet proteins oxidize 5-methylcytosine (mC) to generate 5-hydroxymethyl (hmC), 5-formyl
(fC), and 5-carboxylcytosine (caC). The exact function of these oxidative cytosine bases …

[HTML][HTML] Cell cycle regulation of human DNA repair and chromatin remodeling genes

R Mjelle, SA Hegre, PA Aas, G Slupphaug, F Drabløs… - DNA repair, 2015 - Elsevier
Maintenance of a genome requires DNA repair integrated with chromatin remodeling. We
have analyzed six transcriptome data sets and one data set on translational regulation of …

High-resolution mapping of DNA hypermethylation and hypomethylation in lung cancer

TA Rauch, X Zhong, X Wu, M Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Changes in DNA methylation patterns are an important characteristic of human cancer.
Tumors have reduced levels of genomic DNA methylation and contain hypermethylated …

Epigenetics provides a new generation of oncogenes and tumour-suppressor genes

M Esteller - British journal of cancer, 2006 - nature.com
Cancer is nowadays recognised as a genetic and epigenetic disease. Much effort has been
devoted in the last 30 years to the elucidation of the 'classical'oncogenes and tumour …

Cancer-related serological recognition of human colon cancer: identification of potential diagnostic and immunotherapeutic targets

MJ Scanlan, S Welt, CM Gordon, YT Chen, AO Gure… - Cancer research, 2002 - AACR
Monitoring human antibody recognition of tumor antigens could have potential diagnostic
and prognosticsignificance. Serological analysis of recombinant cDNA expression libraries …

FOXM1 upregulation is an early event in human squamous cell carcinoma and it is enhanced by nicotine during malignant transformation

E Gemenetzidis, A Bose, AM Riaz, T Chaplin… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Cancer associated with smoking and drinking remains a serious health
problem worldwide. The survival of patients is very poor due to the lack of effective early …

Growth retardation and premature aging phenotypes in mice with disruption of the SNF2-like gene, PASG

LQ Sun, DW Lee, Q Zhang, W Xiao… - Genes & …, 2004 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Imperfect maintenance of genome integrity has been postulated to be an important cause of
aging. Here we provide support for this hypothesis by demonstrating that the disruption of …