Epigenetic modifications of histones in cancer

Z Zhao, A Shilatifard - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
The epigenetic modifications of histones are versatile marks that are intimately connected to
development and disease pathogenesis including human cancers. In this review, we will …

Mechanisms of action and regulation of ATP-dependent chromatin-remodelling complexes

CR Clapier, J Iwasa, BR Cairns… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Cells utilize diverse ATP-dependent nucleosome-remodelling complexes to carry out
histone sliding, ejection or the incorporation of histone variants, suggesting that different …

Roles and regulation of histone methylation in animal development

A Jambhekar, A Dhall, Y Shi - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Histone methylation can occur at various sites in histone proteins, primarily on lysine and
arginine residues, and it can be governed by multiple positive and negative regulators, even …

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 …

Epigenetic tools (The Writers, The Readers and The Erasers) and their implications in cancer therapy

S Biswas, CM Rao - European journal of pharmacology, 2018 - Elsevier
Addition of chemical tags on the DNA and modification of histone proteins impart a distinct
feature on chromatin architecture. With the advancement in scientific research, the key …

Metabolic regulation of gene expression through histone acylations

BR Sabari, D Zhang, CD Allis, Y Zhao - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2017 - nature.com
Eight types of short-chain Lys acylations have recently been identified on histones:
propionylation, butyrylation, 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation, succinylation, malonylation …

Epigenetic control of CD8+ T cell differentiation

AN Henning, R Roychoudhuri, NP Restifo - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Upon stimulation, small numbers of naive CD8+ T cells proliferate and differentiate into a
variety of memory and effector cell types. CD8+ T cells can persist for years and kill tumour …

Functions of bromodomain-containing proteins and their roles in homeostasis and cancer

T Fujisawa, P Filippakopoulos - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
Bromodomains (BRDs) are evolutionarily conserved protein–protein interaction modules
that are found in a wide range of proteins with diverse catalytic and scaffolding functions and …

Protein lysine acetylation by p300/CBP

BM Dancy, PA Cole - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Since their discovery in the 1980s and 1990s, the human protein lysine acetyltransferase
encoded by the paralogous p300 and CBP genes has received much interest. p300/CBP …

Histone recognition and large-scale structural analysis of the human bromodomain family

P Filippakopoulos, S Picaud, M Mangos, T Keates… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Bromodomains (BRDs) are protein interaction modules that specifically recognize ε-N-lysine
acetylation motifs, a key event in the reading process of epigenetic marks. The 61 BRDs in …