Cholangiocarcinoma 2020: the next horizon in mechanisms and management

JM Banales, JJG Marin, A Lamarca… - Nature reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) includes a cluster of highly heterogeneous biliary malignant
tumours that can arise at any point of the biliary tree. Their incidence is increasing globally …

Molecular mechanisms of environmental exposures and human disease

H Wu, CM Eckhardt, AA Baccarelli - Nature reviews genetics, 2023 - nature.com
A substantial proportion of disease risk for common complex disorders is attributable to
environmental exposures and pollutants. An appreciation of how environmental pollutants …

Regulation, functions and transmission of bivalent chromatin during mammalian development

TA Macrae, J Fothergill-Robinson… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Cells differentiate and progress through development guided by a dynamic chromatin
landscape that mediates gene expression programmes. During development, mammalian …

Hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal phenotypes promote metastasis and therapy resistance across carcinomas

MK Jolly, JA Somarelli, M Sheth, A Biddle… - Pharmacology & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cancer metastasis and therapy resistance are the major unsolved clinical challenges, and
account for nearly all cancer-related deaths. Both metastasis and therapy resistance are …

Decoding the function of bivalent chromatin in development and cancer

D Kumar, S Cinghu, AJ Oldfield, P Yang… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
Bivalent chromatin is characterized by the simultaneous presence of H3K4me3 and
H3K27me3, histone modifications generally associated with transcriptionally active and …

The bivalent genome: characterization, structure, and regulation

E Blanco, M González-Ramírez, A Alcaine-Colet… - Trends in Genetics, 2020 - cell.com
An intricate molecular machinery is at the core of gene expression regulation in every cell.
During the initial stages of organismal development, the coordinated activation of diverse …

Epigenetics in cancer therapy and nanomedicine

A Roberti, AF Valdes, R Torrecillas, MF Fraga… - Clinical …, 2019 - Springer
The emergence of nanotechnology applied to medicine has revolutionized the treatment of
human cancer. As in the case of classic drugs for the treatment of cancer, epigenetic drugs …

QSER1 protects DNA methylation valleys from de novo methylation

G Dixon, H Pan, D Yang, BP Rosen, T Jashari… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION DNA methylation is essential to mammalian development, and
dysregulation can cause serious pathological conditions, including immunodeficiency …

[HTML][HTML] Paradoxes of cancer: Survival at the brink

J Erenpreisa, K Salmina, O Anatskaya… - Seminars in cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
The fundamental understanding of how Cancer initiates, persists and then progresses is
evolving. High-resolution technologies, including single-cell mutation and gene expression …

Determinants of heritable gene silencing for KRAB-dCas9+ DNMT3 and Ezh2-dCas9+ DNMT3 hit-and-run epigenome editing

H O'Geen, M Tomkova, JA Combs… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Precision epigenome editing has gained significant attention as a method to modulate gene
expression without altering genetic information. However, a major limiting factor has been …