Histone deacetylases and their inhibitors in cancer, neurological diseases and immune disorders

KJ Falkenberg, RW Johnstone - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
Epigenetic aberrations, which are recognized as key drivers of several human diseases, are
often caused by genetic defects that result in functional deregulation of epigenetic proteins …

Epigenetics and trained immunity

CDCC van der Heijden, MP Noz… - Antioxidants & redox …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Significance: A growing body of clinical and experimental evidence has challenged the
traditional understanding that only the adaptive immune system can mount immunological …

Processed foods drive intestinal barrier permeability and microvascular diseases

M Snelson, SM Tan, RE Clarke, C De Pasquale… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Intake of processed foods has increased markedly over the past decades, coinciding with
increased microvascular diseases such as chronic kidney disease (CKD) and diabetes …

Matrix stiffness induces a tumorigenic phenotype in mammary epithelium through changes in chromatin accessibility

RS Stowers, A Shcherbina, J Israeli, JJ Gruber… - Nature biomedical …, 2019 - nature.com
In breast cancer, the increased stiffness of the extracellular matrix is a key driver of
malignancy. Yet little is known about the epigenomic changes that underlie the tumorigenic …

DNMT and HDAC inhibitors induce cryptic transcription start sites encoded in long terminal repeats

D Brocks, CR Schmidt, M Daskalakis, HS Jang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Several mechanisms of action have been proposed for DNA methyltransferase and histone
deacetylase inhibitors (DNMTi and HDACi), primarily based on candidate-gene approaches …

Urgent need for consistent standards in functional enrichment analysis

K Wijesooriya, SA Jadaan, KL Perera… - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Gene set enrichment tests (aka functional enrichment analysis) are among the most
frequently used methods in computational biology. Despite this popularity, there are …

Epigenetics and metabolism

ST Keating, A El-Osta - Circulation research, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
The molecular signatures of epigenetic regulation and chromatin architectures are
fundamental to genetically determined biological processes. Covalent and post-translational …

HDAC inhibitor sodium butyrate-mediated epigenetic regulation enhances neuroprotective function of microglia during ischemic stroke

R Patnala, TV Arumugam, N Gupta, ST Dheen - Molecular Neurobiology, 2017 - Springer
Cerebral ischemia leads to neuroinflammation and activation of microglia which further
contribute to stroke pathology. Understanding regulation of microglial activation will aid in …

Genome-scale screens identify factors regulating tumor cell responses to natural killer cells

M Sheffer, E Lowry, N Beelen, M Borah, SNA Amara… - Nature Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
To systematically define molecular features in human tumor cells that determine their degree
of sensitivity to human allogeneic natural killer (NK) cells, we quantified the NK cell …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of ketogenic diet and ketone bodies on the cardiovascular system: Concentration matters

S Nasser, V Vialichka, M Biesiekierska… - World Journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ketone bodies have emerged as central mediators of metabolic health, and multiple
beneficial effects of a ketogenic diet, impacting metabolism, neuronal pathologies and, to a …