Metabolic regulation of gene expression through histone acylations

BR Sabari, D Zhang, CD Allis, Y Zhao - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2017 - nature.com
Eight types of short-chain Lys acylations have recently been identified on histones:
propionylation, butyrylation, 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation, succinylation, malonylation …

Functions of bromodomain-containing proteins and their roles in homeostasis and cancer

T Fujisawa, P Filippakopoulos - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
Bromodomains (BRDs) are evolutionarily conserved protein–protein interaction modules
that are found in a wide range of proteins with diverse catalytic and scaffolding functions and …

Targeting bromodomains: epigenetic readers of lysine acetylation

P Filippakopoulos, S Knapp - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
Lysine acetylation is a key mechanism that regulates chromatin structure; aberrant
acetylation levels have been linked to the development of several diseases. Acetyl-lysine …

The bromodomain and extra-terminal domain (BET) family: functional anatomy of BET paralogous proteins

Y Taniguchi - International journal of molecular sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
The Bromodomain and Extra-Terminal Domain (BET) family of proteins is characterized by
the presence of two tandem bromodomains and an extra-terminal domain. The mammalian …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatin dynamics during spermiogenesis

C Rathke, WM Baarends, S Awe… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2014 - Elsevier
The function of sperm is to safely transport the haploid paternal genome to the egg
containing the maternal genome. The subsequent fertilization leads to transmission of a new …

RVX-208, an inhibitor of BET transcriptional regulators with selectivity for the second bromodomain

S Picaud, C Wells, I Felletar… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Bromodomains have emerged as attractive candidates for the development of inhibitors
targeting gene transcription. Inhibitors of the bromo and extraterminal (BET) family recently …

Lysine 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation is a widely distributed active histone mark

L Dai, C Peng, E Montellier, Z Lu, Y Chen… - Nature chemical …, 2014 - nature.com
We report the identification of a new type of histone mark, lysine 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation
(Khib), and identify the mark at 63 human and mouse histone Khib sites, including 27 unique …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic regulation of the histone-to-protamine transition during spermiogenesis

J Bao, MT Bedford - Reproduction (Cambridge, England), 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In mammals, male germ cells differentiate from haploid round spermatids to flagella-
containing motile sperm, in a process called spermiogenesis. This process is distinct from …

Chromodomain protein CDYL acts as a crotonyl-CoA hydratase to regulate histone crotonylation and spermatogenesis

S Liu, H Yu, Y Liu, X Liu, Y Zhang, C Bu, S Yuan… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Lysine crotonylation (Kcr) is a newly identified histone modification that is associated with
active transcription in mammalian cells. Here we report that the chromodomain Y-like …

Interactome rewiring following pharmacological targeting of BET bromodomains

JP Lambert, S Picaud, T Fujisawa, H Hou, P Savitsky… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Targeting bromodomains (BRDs) of the bromo-and-extra-terminal (BET) family offers
opportunities for therapeutic intervention in cancer and other diseases. Here, we profile the …