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 …

Ubiquitination: Friend and foe in cancer

MA Mansour - The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Dynamic modulation and posttranslational modification of proteins are tightly controlled
biological processes that occur in response to physiological cues. One such dynamic …

Arginine methylation of SARS-Cov-2 nucleocapsid protein regulates RNA binding, its ability to suppress stress granule formation, and viral replication

T Cai, Z Yu, Z Wang, C Liang, S Richard - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - ASBMB
Viral proteins are known to be methylated by host protein arginine methyltransferases
(PRMTs) necessary for the viral life cycle, but it remains unknown whether severe acute …

Epigenetics in ovarian cancer: premise, properties, and perspectives

Q Yang, Y Yang, N Zhou, K Tang, WB Lau, B Lau… - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Malignant ovarian tumors bear the highest mortality rate among all gynecological cancers.
Both late tumor diagnosis and tolerance to available chemical therapy increase patient …

[HTML][HTML] Protein arginine methylation/demethylation and cancer

C Poulard, L Corbo, M Le Romancer - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Protein arginine methylation is a common post-translational modification involved in
numerous cellular processes including transcription, DNA repair, mRNA splicing and signal …

[HTML][HTML] PLEKHM1/DEF8/RAB7 complex regulates lysosome positioning and bone homeostasis

T Fujiwara, S Ye, T Castro-Gomes, CG Winchell… - JCI insight, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Mutations of the Plekhm1 gene in humans and rats cause osteopetrosis, an inherited bone
disease characterized by diminished bone resorption by osteoclasts. PLEKHM1 binds to …

FAM98A promotes resistance to 5-fluorouracil in colorectal cancer by suppressing ferroptosis

Z He, J Yang, C Sui, P Zhang, T Wang, T Mou… - Archives of Biochemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background FAM98A is a microtubule-associated protein involved in cell proliferation and
migration, and is frequently dysregulated in epithelial cancers. But its role in the …

Circular RNAs-mediated angiogenesis in human cancers

F Ghaedrahmati, A Nasrolahi, S Najafi… - Clinical and …, 2023 - Springer
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) as small non-coding RNAs with cell, tissue, or organ-specific
expression accomplish a broad array of functions in physiological and pathological …

HOXD8 exerts a tumor-suppressing role in colorectal cancer as an apoptotic inducer

MA Mansour, T Senga - The international journal of biochemistry & cell …, 2017 - Elsevier
Homeobox (HOX) genes are conserved transcription factors which determine the anterior-
posterior body axis patterning. HOXD8 is a member of HOX genes deregulated in several …

mNeuCode Empowers Targeted Proteome Analysis of Arginine Dimethylation

Q Wang, X Yan, B Fu, Y Xu, L Li, C Chang… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Characterization of protein arginine dimethylation presents significant challenges due to its
occurrence at the substoichiometric level. To enable a targeted MS/MS analysis of these …