Expanding the role of the histone lysine-specific demethylase LSD1 in cancer

B Majello, F Gorini, CD Saccà, S Amente - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Studies of alterations in histone methylation in cancer have led to the identification of histone
methyltransferases and demethylases as novel targets for therapy. Lysine-specific …

Histone demethylases in chromatin biology and beyond

E Dimitrova, AH Turberfield, RJ Klose - EMBO reports, 2015 - embopress.org
Histone methylation plays fundamental roles in regulating chromatin‐based processes. With
the discovery of histone demethylases over a decade ago, it is now clear that histone …

A specific LSD1/KDM1A isoform regulates neuronal differentiation through H3K9 demethylation

B Laurent, L Ruitu, J Murn, K Hempel, R Ferrao… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Summary Lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) has been reported to repress and activate
transcription by mediating histone H3K4me1/2 and H3K9me1/2 demethylation, respectively …

[HTML][HTML] The histone LSD1 demethylase in stemness and cancer transcription programs

S Amente, L Lania, B Majello - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2013 - Elsevier
DNA and histone chromatin modifying enzymes play a crucial role in chromatin remodeling
in several biological processes. Lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1), the first identified …

Estrogen receptor signaling as a target for novel breast cancer therapeutics

JM Renoir, V Marsaud, G Lazennec - Biochemical pharmacology, 2013 - Elsevier
In breast cancer (BC) epithelial cells, the mitogenic action of estradiol is transduced through
binding to two receptors, ERα and ERβ, which act as transcription factors. Anti-estrogens …

Crystal structure of the LSD1/CoREST histone demethylase bound to its nucleosome substrate

SA Kim, J Zhu, N Yennawar, P Eek, S Tan - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
LSD1 (lysine specific demethylase; also known as KDM1A), the first histone demethylase
discovered, regulates cell-fate determination and is overexpressed in multiple cancers …

A comprehensive review of lysine-specific demethylase 1 and its roles in cancer

A Hosseini, S Minucci - Epigenomics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Histone methylation plays a key role in the regulation of chromatin structure, and its
dynamics regulates important cellular processes. The investigation of the role of alterations …

Readers of histone methylarginine marks

S Gayatri, MT Bedford - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2014 - Elsevier
Arginine methylation is a common posttranslational modification (PTM) that alters roughly
0.5% of all arginine residues in the cells. There are three types of arginine methylation …

Arginine methylation‐dependent LSD1 stability promotes invasion and metastasis of breast cancer

J Liu, J Feng, L Li, L Lin, J Ji, C Lin, L Liu, N Zhang… - EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
Abstract Histone lysine demethylase 1 (LSD 1), the first identified histone demethylase, is
overexpressed in multiple tumor types, including breast cancer. However, the mechanisms …

Repression of LSD1 potentiates homologous recombination-proficient ovarian cancer to PARP inhibitors through down-regulation of BRCA1/2 and RAD51

L Tao, Y Zhou, X Pan, Y Luo, J Qiu, X Zhou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) are selectively active in ovarian cancer
(OC) with homologous recombination (HR) deficiency (HRD) caused by mutations in …