Epigenetic regulation in the tumor microenvironment: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic targets

J Yang, J Xu, W Wang, B Zhang, X Yu… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Over decades, researchers have focused on the epigenetic control of DNA-templated
processes. Histone modification, DNA methylation, chromatin remodeling, RNA modification …

[HTML][HTML] ROS and the DNA damage response in cancer

US Srinivas, BWQ Tan, BA Vellayappan… - Redox biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are a group of short-lived, highly reactive, oxygen-
containing molecules that can induce DNA damage and affect the DNA damage response …

Genome-wide CRISPR screens of T cell exhaustion identify chromatin remodeling factors that limit T cell persistence

JA Belk, W Yao, N Ly, KA Freitas, YT Chen, Q Shi… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
T cell exhaustion limits antitumor immunity, but the molecular determinants of this process
remain poorly understood. Using a chronic stimulation assay, we performed genome-wide …

cBAF complex components and MYC cooperate early in CD8+ T cell fate

A Guo, H Huang, Z Zhu, MJ Chen, H Shi, S Yuan… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The identification of mechanisms to promote memory T (Tmem) cells has important
implications for vaccination and anti-cancer immunotherapy,,–. Using a CRISPR-based …

The SWI/SNF complex in cancer—biology, biomarkers and therapy

P Mittal, CWM Roberts - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer genome-sequencing studies have revealed a remarkably high prevalence of
mutations in genes encoding subunits of the SWI/SNF chromatin-remodelling complexes …

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 …

Transcriptional regulation of Wnt/β-catenin pathway in colorectal cancer

J Bian, M Dannappel, C Wan, R Firestein - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway exerts integral roles in embryogenesis and adult
homeostasis. Aberrant activation of the pathway is implicated in growth-associated diseases …

Differential cofactor dependencies define distinct types of human enhancers

C Neumayr, V Haberle, L Serebreni, K Karner… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
All multicellular organisms rely on differential gene transcription regulated by genomic
enhancers, which function through cofactors that are recruited by transcription factors …

ARID1A deficiency promotes mutability and potentiates therapeutic antitumor immunity unleashed by immune checkpoint blockade

J Shen, Z Ju, W Zhao, L Wang, Y Peng, Z Ge… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract ARID1A (the AT-rich interaction domain 1A, also known as BAF250a) is one of the
most commonly mutated genes in cancer,. The majority of ARID1A mutations are inactivating …

Structure of nucleosome-bound human BAF complex

S He, Z Wu, Y Tian, Z Yu, J Yu, X Wang, J Li, B Liu… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Mammalian SWI/SNF family chromatin remodelers, BRG1/BRM-associated factor (BAF) and
polybromo-associated BAF (PBAF), regulate chromatin structure and transcription, and their …