Targeting epigenetic regulators for cancer therapy: mechanisms and advances in clinical trials

Y Cheng, C He, M Wang, X Ma, F Mo, S Yang… - Signal transduction and …, 2019 - nature.com
Epigenetic alternations concern heritable yet reversible changes in histone or DNA
modifications that regulate gene activity beyond the underlying sequence. Epigenetic …

Histone modifications in drug-resistant cancers: From a cancer stem cell and immune evasion perspective

ML Jin, KW Jeong - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The development and immune evasion of cancer stem cells (CSCs) limit the efficacy of
currently available anticancer therapies. Recent studies have shown that epigenetic …

Anti-tumor activity of the type I PRMT inhibitor, GSK3368715, synergizes with PRMT5 inhibition through MTAP loss

A Fedoriw, SR Rajapurkar, S O'Brien, SV Gerhart… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Type I protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) catalyze asymmetric dimethylation of
arginines on proteins. Type I PRMTs and their substrates have been implicated in human …

[HTML][HTML] PRMT6 methylation of RCC1 regulates mitosis, tumorigenicity, and radiation response of glioblastoma stem cells

T Huang, Y Yang, X Song, X Wan, B Wu, N Sastry… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Aberrant cell proliferation is a hallmark of cancer, including glioblastoma (GBM). Here we
report that protein arginine methyltransferase (PRMT) 6 activity is required for the …

A high-resolution 3D epigenomic map reveals insights into the creation of the prostate cancer transcriptome

SK Rhie, AA Perez, FD Lay, S Schreiner, J Shi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
To better understand the impact of chromatin structure on regulation of the prostate cancer
transcriptome, we develop high-resolution chromatin interaction maps in normal and …

The emerging role of PRMT6 in cancer

Z Chen, J Gan, Z Wei, M Zhang, Y Du, C Xu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Protein arginine methyltransferase 6 (PRMT6) is a type I PRMT that is involved in epigenetic
regulation of gene expression through methylating histone or non-histone proteins, and …

Spermine is a natural suppressor of AR signaling in castration-resistant prostate cancer

X Li, F Li, F Ye, H Guo, W Chen, J Jin, Y Wang, P Dai… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
In castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), clinical response to androgen receptor (AR)
antagonists is limited mainly due to AR-variants expression and restored AR signaling. The …

PRMT6 regulates RAS/RAF binding and MEK/ERK-mediated cancer stemness activities in hepatocellular carcinoma through CRAF methylation

LH Chan, L Zhou, KY Ng, TL Wong, TK Lee, R Sharma… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Arginine methylation is a post-translational modification that plays pivotal roles in signal
transduction and gene transcription during cell fate determination. We found protein …

PTEN arginine methylation by PRMT6 suppresses PI3K–AKT signaling and modulates pre-mRNA splicing

J Feng, Y Dang, W Zhang, X Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Arginine methylation is a ubiquitous posttranslational modification that regulates critical
cellular processes including signal transduction and pre-mRNA splicing. Here, we report …

PRMT6-CDC20 facilitates glioblastoma progression via the degradation of CDKN1B

J Wang, Z Xiao, P Li, C Wu, Y Li, Q Wang, Y Chen… - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
PRMT6, a type I arginine methyltransferase, di-methylates the arginine residues of both
histones and non-histones asymmetrically. Increasing evidence indicates that PRMT6 plays …