Understanding the mechanisms by which epigenetic modifiers avert therapy resistance in cancer

A Quagliano, A Gopalakrishnapillai, SP Barwe - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The development of resistance to anti-cancer therapeutics remains one of the core issues
preventing the improvement of survival rates in cancer. Therapy resistance can arise in a …

Uncoupling histone modification crosstalk by engineering lysine demethylase LSD1

K Lee, M Barone, AL Waterbury, H Jiang… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Biochemical crosstalk between two or more histone modifications is often observed in
epigenetic enzyme regulation, but its functional significance in cells has been difficult to …

Activation of STAT and SMAD signaling induces hepcidin re-expression as a therapeutic target for β-Thalassemia patients

HKM Saad, AA Abd Rahman, AS Ab Ghani, WRW Taib… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Iron homeostasis is regulated by hepcidin, a hepatic hormone that controls dietary iron
absorption and plasma iron concentration. Hepcidin binds to the only known iron export …

Gene expression profiling and protein analysis reveal suppression of the C-Myc oncogene and inhibition JAK/STAT and PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling by thymoquinone …

B Almajali, MF Johan, AS Al-Wajeeh, WR Wan Taib… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Overexpression of c-Myc plays an essential role in leukemogenesis and drug resistance,
making c-Myc an attractive target for cancer therapy. However, targeting c-Myc directly is …

Development of a first-in-class DNMT1/HDAC inhibitor with improved therapeutic potential and potentiated antitumor immunity

Y Chang, H Guo, X Li, L Zong, J Wei, Z Li… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Epigenetic therapies have emerged as a key paradigm for treating malignancies. In this
study, a series of DNMT1/HDAC dual inhibitors were obtained by fusing the key …

[HTML][HTML] Thymoquinone induces downregulation of BCR-ABL/JAK/STAT pathway and apoptosis in K562 leukemia cells

FA Al-Rawashde, WRW Taib, I Ismail… - Asian Pacific Journal …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective: BCR ABL oncogene encodes the BCR-ABL chimeric protein, which is a
constitutively activated non-receptor tyrosine kinase. The BCR-ABL oncoprotein is a key …

Thymoquinone Inhibits Growth of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells through Reversal SHP-1 and SOCS-3 Hypermethylation: In Vitro and In Silico Evaluation

FA Al-Rawashde, MF Johan, WRW Taib, I Ismail… - Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) plays an essential role in cancer
pathogenesis, including acute myeloid leukemia (AML). All of SHP-1, SOCS-1, and SOCS-3 …

[HTML][HTML] Thymoquinone suppresses cell proliferation and enhances apoptosis of HL60 leukemia cells through re-expression of JAK/STAT negative regulators

B Almajali, HAN Al-Jamal, WRW Taib… - Asian Pacific Journal …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective: The natural compound, thymoquinone (TQ) has demonstrated potential
anticancer properties in inhibiting cell proliferation and promoting apoptosis in myeloid …

Thymoquinone inhibits JAK/STAT and PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathways in MV4-11 and K562 myeloid leukemia cells

FA Al-Rawashde, AS Al-Wajeeh, MN Vishkaei… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Constitutive activation of Janus tyrosine kinase-signal transducer and activator of
transcription (JAK/STAT) and Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt/mammalian target of …

Matrisome analysis of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma unveils a peculiar cancer-associated extracellular matrix structure

G Carpino, D Overi, F Melandro, A Grimaldi… - Clinical proteomics, 2019 - Springer
Background Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) is a malignancy that arises from the
intrahepatic biliary tree, showing high mortality rates due to its late clinical presentation and …