COMPASS and SWI/SNF complexes in development and disease

BK Cenik, A Shilatifard - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Trithorax group (TrxG) of proteins is a large family of epigenetic regulators that
form multiprotein complexes to counteract repressive developmental gene expression …

Writing, erasing and reading histone lysine methylations

K Hyun, J Jeon, K Park, J Kim - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Histone modifications are key epigenetic regulatory features that have important roles in
many cellular events. Lysine methylations mark various sites on the tail and globular …

METTL3 preferentially enhances non-m6A translation of epigenetic factors and promotes tumourigenesis

X Wei, Y Huo, J Pi, Y Gao, S Rao, M He, Q Wei… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
METTL3 encodes the predominant catalytic enzyme to promote m6A methylation in nucleus.
Recently, accumulating evidence has shown the expression of METTL3 in cytoplasm, but its …

Reevaluating the roles of histone-modifying enzymes and their associated chromatin modifications in transcriptional regulation

MAJ Morgan, A Shilatifard - Nature genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Histone-modifying enzymes are implicated in the control of diverse DNA-templated
processes including gene expression. Here, we outline historical and current thinking …

Lateral thinking: how histone modifications regulate gene expression

M Lawrence, S Daujat, R Schneider - Trends in Genetics, 2016 - cell.com
The DNA of each cell is wrapped around histone octamers, forming so-called 'nucleosomal
core particles'. These histone proteins have tails that project from the nucleosome and many …

A selective WDR5 degrader inhibits acute myeloid leukemia in patient-derived mouse models

X Yu, D Li, J Kottur, Y Shen, HS Kim, KS Park… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Interactions between WD40 repeat domain protein 5 (WDR5) and its various partners such
as mixed lineage leukemia (MLL) and c-MYC are essential for sustaining oncogenesis in …

Comprehensive catalog of currently documented histone modifications

Y Zhao, BA Garcia - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Modern techniques in molecular biology, genomics, and mass spectrometry–based
proteomics have identified a large number of novel histone posttranslational modifications …

Mechanisms of oocyte maturation and related epigenetic regulation

M He, T Zhang, Y Yang, C Wang - Frontiers in cell and developmental …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Meiosis is the basis of sexual reproduction. In female mammals, meiosis of oocytes starts
before birth and sustains at the dictyate stage of meiotic prophase I before gonadotropins …

Disruption of KMT2D perturbs germinal center B cell development and promotes lymphomagenesis

J Zhang, D Dominguez-Sola, S Hussein, JE Lee… - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
Mutations in the gene encoding the KMT2D (or MLL2) methyltransferase are highly recurrent
and occur early during tumorigenesis in diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and …

Histone H3 lysine 4 methyltransferase KMT2D

E Froimchuk, Y Jang, K Ge - Gene, 2017 - Elsevier
Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase 2D (KMT2D), also known as MLL4 and MLL2 in humans
and Mll4 in mice, belongs to a family of mammalian histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) …