Interrogating epigenetic mechanisms with chemically customized chromatin

N Hananya, S Koren, TW Muir - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Genetic and genomic techniques have proven incredibly powerful for identifying and
studying molecular players implicated in the epigenetic regulation of DNA-templated …

Applying multi‐omics toward tumor microbiome research

N Zhang, S Kandalai, X Zhou, F Hossain, Q Zheng - iMeta, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Rather than a “short‐term tenant,” the tumor microbiome has been shown to play a vital role
as a “permanent resident,” affecting carcinogenesis, cancer development, metastasis, and …

Lysine l-lactylation is the dominant lactylation isomer induced by glycolysis

D Zhang, J Gao, Z Zhu, Q Mao, Z Xu, PK Singh… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Lysine l-lactylation (Kl-la) is a novel protein posttranslational modification (PTM) driven by l-
lactate. This PTM has three isomers: Kl-la, N-ε-(carboxyethyl)-lysine (Kce) and d-lactyl-lysine …

A hotspot for posttranslational modifications on the androgen receptor dimer interface drives pathology and anti-androgen resistance

A Alegre-Martí, A Jiménez-Panizo… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Mutations of the androgen receptor (AR) associated with prostate cancer and androgen
insensitivity syndrome may profoundly influence its structure, protein interaction network …

Biochemical genesis of enzymatic and non-enzymatic post-translational modifications

EQ Jennings, KS Fritz, JJ Galligan - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) alter protein structure, function, and localization and
play a pivotal role in physiological and pathophysiological conditions. Many PTMs arise from …

Thiolactone chemistry, a versatile platform for macromolecular engineering

N Illy, E Mongkhoun - Polymer Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Thiolactones are often described as latent thiols. They can be ring-opened by hydroxy or
amine groups releasing thiols, which can further react with a large variety of functional …

Chromatin structure in cancer

M Wang, BD Sunkel, WC Ray, BZ Stanton - BMC molecular and cell …, 2022 - Springer
In the past decade, we have seen the emergence of sequence-based methods to
understand chromosome organization. With the confluence of in situ approaches to capture …

Immunotherapy targeting isoDGR‐protein damage extends lifespan in a mouse model of protein deamidation

P Kalailingam, KH Mohd‐Kahliab… - EMBO Molecular …, 2023 - embopress.org
Aging results from the accumulation of molecular damage that impairs normal biochemical
processes. We previously reported that age‐linked damage to amino acid sequence NGR …

Leveraging histone glycation for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics

A Knörlein, Y Xiao, Y David - Trends in cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Cancer cells undergo metabolic reprogramming to rely mostly on aerobic glycolysis (the
Warburg effect). The increased glycolytic intake enhances the intracellular levels of reactive …

[HTML][HTML] AGEs and RAGE: Metabolic and molecular signatures of the glycation-inflammation axis in malignant or metastatic cancers

G Palanissami, SFD Paul - Exploration of Targeted Anti-tumor …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
From attributing mutations to cancers with the advent of cutting-edge genetic technology in
recent decades, to re-searching the age-old theory of intrinsic metabolic shift of cancers …