KATs off: Biomedical insights from lysine acetyltransferase inhibitors

SD Whedon, PA Cole - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Lysine acetyltransferase (KAT) enzymes including the p300, MYST, and GCN5 families play
major roles in modulating the structure of chromatin and regulating transcription. Because of …

Advances in drug delivery systems for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia

X Wu, F Wang, X Yang, Y Gong, T Niu, B Chu, Y Qu… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a common and catastrophic hematological neoplasm with
high mortality rates. Conventional therapies, including chemotherapy, hematopoietic stem …

Imetelstat-mediated alterations in fatty acid metabolism to induce ferroptosis as a therapeutic strategy for acute myeloid leukemia

C Bruedigam, AH Porter, A Song, G Vroeg in de Wei… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Telomerase enables replicative immortality in most cancers including acute myeloid
leukemia (AML). Imetelstat is a first-in-class telomerase inhibitor with clinical efficacy in …

The role of m6A demethylase FTO in chemotherapy resistance mediating acute myeloid leukemia relapse

ZW Zhang, XS Zhao, H Guo, XJ Huang - Cell Death Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common hematopoietic malignancies, and
chemotherapy resistance is one of the main causes of relapse. Because of lower survival …

Targeting pan-essential pathways in cancer with cytotoxic chemotherapy: challenges and opportunities

SG Rudd - Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology, 2023 - Springer
Cytotoxic chemotherapy remains a key modality in cancer treatment. These therapies,
successfully used for decades, continue to transform the lives of cancer patients daily. With …

The E3 ubiquitin ligase Herc1 modulates the response to nucleoside analogs in acute myeloid leukemia

M Jankovic, WWL Poon, C Gonzales-Losada… - Blood …, 2024 - ashpublications.org
For several decades, induction therapy with nucleoside analogs, in particular cytarabine
(Ara-C) and, to a lesser extent, fludarabine, has been the standard of care for patients …

Spatiotemporal evolution of AML immune microenvironment remodeling and RNF149-driven drug resistance through single-cell multidimensional analysis

X Wu, Z Wu, W Deng, R Xu, C Ban, X Sun… - Journal of Translational …, 2023 - Springer
Background The composition of the bone marrow immune microenvironment in patients with
acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) was analysed by single-cell sequencing and the …

Docking and simulation studies on cyclin D/CDK4 complex for targeting cell cycle arrest in cancer using flavanone and its congener

S Nagare, KB Lokhande, KV Swamy - Journal of Molecular Modeling, 2023 - Springer
Flavanone compounds are naturally occurring phytochemicals present in most of citrus fruits
reported to be a potential anticancer moiety as it majorly participates in the inhibition of the …

Lysine acetyltransferase 6A maintains CD4+ T cell response via epigenetic reprogramming of glucose metabolism in autoimmunity

JY Fu, SJ Huang, BL Wang, JH Yin, CY Chen, JB Xu… - Cell Metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
Augmented CD4+ T cell response in autoimmunity is characterized by extensive metabolic
reprogramming. However, the epigenetic molecule that drives the metabolic adaptation of …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular Targets for Breast Cancer Therapy

H Montazeri Aliabadi - Biomolecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is by far the most common cancer in women, and for a while, it surpassed lung
cancer as the most diagnosed cancer, regardless of gender, in 2020 [1]. Chemotherapy and …