Staying true to yourself: mechanisms of DNA methylation maintenance in mammals

N Petryk, S Bultmann, T Bartke… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is essential to development and cellular physiology in mammals. Faulty
DNA methylation is frequently observed in human diseases like cancer and neurological …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation, its mediators and genome integrity

H Meng, Y Cao, J Qin, X Song, Q Zhang… - … journal of biological …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
DNA methylation regulates many cellular processes, including embryonic development,
transcription, chromatin structure, X-chromosome inactivation, genomic imprinting and …

HAUSP deubiquitinates and stabilizes N-Myc in neuroblastoma

O Tavana, D Li, C Dai, G Lopez, D Banerjee, N Kon… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
The MYCN proto-oncogene is amplified in a number of advanced-stage human tumors, such
as neuroblastomas. Similar to other members of the MYC family of oncoproteins, MYCN …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of proteolysis by human deubiquitinating enzymes

ZM Eletr, KD Wilkinson - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular …, 2014 - Elsevier
The post-translational attachment of one or several ubiquitin molecules to a protein
generates a variety of targeting signals that are used in many different ways in the cell …

USP11 promotes growth and metastasis of colorectal cancer via PPP1CA-mediated activation of ERK/MAPK signaling pathway

H Sun, B Ou, S Zhao, X Liu, L Song, X Liu, R Wang… - …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background USP11 is an ubiquitin-specific protease that plays an important role in tumor
progression via different mechanisms. However, the expression and prognostic significance …

Long noncoding RNA UPAT promotes colon tumorigenesis by inhibiting degradation of UHRF1

K Taniue, A Kurimoto, H Sugimasa… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Many long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are reported to be dysregulated in human cancers
and play critical roles in tumor development and progression. Furthermore, it has been …

USP7 is a SUMO deubiquitinase essential for DNA replication

E Lecona, S Rodriguez-Acebes, J Specks… - Nature structural & …, 2016 - nature.com
Post-translational modification of proteins by ubiquitin (Ub) and Ub-like modifiers regulates
DNA replication. We have previously shown that chromatin around replisomes is rich in …

Signalling pathways in UHRF1-dependent regulation of tumor suppressor genes in cancer

M Alhosin, Z Omran, MA Zamzami, AL Al-Malki… - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - Springer
Epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) through DNA methylation and
histone changes is a main hallmark of cancer. U biquitin-like with PHD and R ING F inger …

Molecular mechanism for USP7-mediated DNMT1 stabilization by acetylation

J Cheng, H Yang, J Fang, L Ma, R Gong… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
DNMT1 is an important epigenetic regulator that plays a key role in the maintenance of DNA
methylation. Here we determined the crystal structure of DNMT1 in complex with USP7 at …

[HTML][HTML] The epigenetic integrator UHRF1: on the road to become a universal biomarker for cancer

W Ashraf, A Ibrahim, M Alhosin, L Zaayter… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases in the world causing record number of mortalities in
both developed and undeveloped countries. Despite a lot of advances and breakthroughs in …