Protein arginine methylation: from enigmatic functions to therapeutic targeting

Q Wu, M Schapira, CH Arrowsmith… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) are emerging as attractive therapeutic targets.
PRMTs regulate transcription, splicing, RNA biology, the DNA damage response and cell …

Roles and mechanisms of alternative splicing in cancer—implications for care

SC Bonnal, I López-Oreja, J Valcárcel - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Removal of introns from messenger RNA precursors (pre-mRNA splicing) is an essential
step for the expression of most eukaryotic genes. Alternative splicing enables the regulated …

The regulation, functions and clinical relevance of arginine methylation

E Guccione, S Richard - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Methylation of arginine residues by protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) is involved
in the regulation of fundamental cellular processes, including transcription, RNA processing …

RNA-binding proteins in tumor progression

H Qin, H Ni, Y Liu, Y Yuan, T Xi, X Li… - Journal of hematology & …, 2020 - Springer
RNA-binding protein (RBP) has a highly dynamic spatiotemporal regulation process and
important biological functions. They are critical to maintain the transcriptome through post …

Protein arginine methyltransferases: promising targets for cancer therapy

JW Hwang, Y Cho, GU Bae, SN Kim… - Experimental & molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein methylation, a post-translational modification (PTM), is observed in a wide variety of
cell types from prokaryotes to eukaryotes. With recent and rapid advancements in epigenetic …

Epigenetic modification of m6A regulator proteins in cancer

Y Wang, Y Wang, H Patel, J Chen, J Wang, ZS Chen… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Divergent N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modifications are dynamic and reversible
posttranscriptional RNA modifications that are mediated by m6A regulators or m6A RNA …

PRMTs and arginine methylation: cancer's best-kept secret?

J Jarrold, CC Davies - Trends in molecular medicine, 2019 - cell.com
Post-translational modification (PTM) of proteins is vital for increasing proteome diversity
and maintaining cellular homeostasis. If the writing, reading, and removal of modifications …

Therapeutic targeting of RNA splicing catalysis through inhibition of protein arginine methylation

JY Fong, L Pignata, PA Goy, KC Kawabata, SCW Lee… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Cancer-associated mutations in genes encoding RNA splicing factors (SFs) commonly occur
in leukemias, as well as in a variety of solid tumors, and confer dependence on wild-type …

Proteome-wide analysis of arginine monomethylation reveals widespread occurrence in human cells

SC Larsen, KB Sylvestersen, A Mund, D Lyon… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
The posttranslational modification of proteins by arginine methylation is functionally
important, yet the breadth of this modification is not well characterized. Using high-resolution …

Targeting mRNA processing as an anticancer strategy

J Desterro, P Bak-Gordon… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Discoveries in the past decade have highlighted the potential of mRNA as a therapeutic
target for cancer. Specifically, RNA sequencing revealed that, in addition to gene mutations …