Recent advances in targeted therapies in acute myeloid leukemia

RS Bhansali, KW Pratz, C Lai - Journal of Hematology & Oncology, 2023 - Springer
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common acute leukemia in adults. While survival
for younger patients over the last several decades has improved nearly sixfold with the …

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 …

The molecular hallmarks of epigenetic control

CD Allis, T Jenuwein - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Over the past 20 years, breakthrough discoveries of chromatin-modifying enzymes and
associated mechanisms that alter chromatin in response to physiological or pathological …

The interplay of histone modifications–writers that read

T Zhang, S Cooper, N Brockdorff - EMBO reports, 2015 - embopress.org
Histones are subject to a vast array of posttranslational modifications including acetylation,
methylation, phosphorylation, and ubiquitylation. The writers of these modifications play …

Gain-of-function p53 mutants co-opt chromatin pathways to drive cancer growth

J Zhu, MA Sammons, G Donahue, Z Dou, M Vedadi… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
TP53 (which encodes p53 protein) is the most frequently mutated gene among all human
cancers. Prevalent p53 missense mutations abrogate its tumour suppressive function and …

Roles and mechanisms of BAP1 deubiquitinase in tumor suppression

L Masclef, O Ahmed, B Estavoyer, B Larrivée… - Cell Death & …, 2021 - nature.com
The BAP1 gene has emerged as a major tumor suppressor mutated with various
frequencies in numerous human malignancies, including uveal melanoma, malignant …

BAP1 loss defines a new class of renal cell carcinoma

S Peña-Llopis, S Vega-Rubín-de-Celis, A Liao… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
The molecular pathogenesis of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is poorly understood. Whole-
genome and exome sequencing followed by innovative tumorgraft analyses (to accurately …

DAXX/ATRX, MEN1, and mTOR Pathway Genes Are Frequently Altered in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

Y Jiao, C Shi, BH Edil, RF De Wilde, DS Klimstra… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs) are a rare but clinically important form of
pancreatic neoplasia. To explore the genetic basis of PanNETs, we determined the exomic …

The COMPASS family of histone H3K4 methylases: mechanisms of regulation in development and disease pathogenesis

A Shilatifard - Annual review of biochemistry, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Set1/COMPASS was the first histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4)
methylase identified over 10 years ago. Since then, it has been demonstrated that …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) and type 4 (MEN4)

RV Thakker - Molecular and cellular endocrinology, 2014 - Elsevier
Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) is characterized by the occurrence of tumors involving
two or more endocrine glands within a single patient. Four major forms of MEN, which are …