Histone lysine methyltransferases in biology and disease

D Husmann, O Gozani - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2019 - nature.com
The precise temporal and spatial coordination of histone lysine methylation dynamics across
the epigenome regulates virtually all DNA-templated processes. A large number of histone …

Epigenetics and beyond: targeting writers of protein lysine methylation to treat disease

KP Bhat, H Ümit Kaniskan, J Jin… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein lysine methylation is a crucial post-translational modification that regulates the
functions of both histone and non-histone proteins. Deregulation of the enzymes or 'writers' …

CORUM: the comprehensive resource of mammalian protein complexes—2019

M Giurgiu, J Reinhard, B Brauner… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
CORUM is a database that provides a manually curated repository of experimentally
characterized protein complexes from mammalian organisms, mainly human (67%), mouse …

HBO1 is required for the maintenance of leukaemia stem cells

L MacPherson, J Anokye, MM Yeung, EYN Lam… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease characterized by transcriptional
dysregulation that results in a block in differentiation and increased malignant self-renewal …

TMBIM5 is the Ca2+/H+ antiporter of mammalian mitochondria

S Austin, R Mekis, SEM Mohammed, M Scalise… - EMBO …, 2022 - embopress.org
Mitochondrial Ca2+ ions are crucial regulators of bioenergetics and cell death pathways.
Mitochondrial Ca2+ content and cytosolic Ca2+ homeostasis strictly depend on Ca2+ …

Biomolecular condensation of NUP98 fusion proteins drives leukemogenic gene expression

S Terlecki-Zaniewicz, T Humer, T Eder… - Nature structural & …, 2021 - nature.com
NUP98 fusion proteins cause leukemia via unknown molecular mechanisms. All NUP98
fusion proteins share an intrinsically disordered region (IDR) in the NUP98 N terminus …

Understanding histone H3 lysine 36 methylation and its deregulation in disease

J Li, JH Ahn, GG Wang - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2019 - Springer
Methylation of histone H3 lysine 36 (H3K36) plays crucial roles in the partitioning of
chromatin to distinctive domains and the regulation of a wide range of biological processes …

Structural and functional specificity of H3K36 methylation

UTF Lam, BKY Tan, JJX Poh, ES Chen - Epigenetics & Chromatin, 2022 - Springer
The methylation of histone H3 at lysine 36 (H3K36me) is essential for maintaining genomic
stability. Indeed, this methylation mark is essential for proper transcription, recombination …

HOX genes function in Breast Cancer development

SA de Bessa Garcia, M Araújo, T Pereira… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
Breast cancer develops in the mammary glands during mammalian adulthood and is
considered the second most common type of human carcinoma and the most incident and …

IKAROS and MENIN coordinate therapeutically actionable leukemogenic gene expression in MLL-r acute myeloid leukemia

BJ Aubrey, JA Cutler, W Bourgeois, KA Donovan, S Gu… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains difficult to treat and requires new therapeutic
approaches. Potent inhibitors of the chromatin-associated protein MENIN have recently …