Resistance to anti-angiogenic therapy in cancer—alterations to anti-VEGF pathway

Y Itatani, K Kawada, T Yamamoto, Y Sakai - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Anti-angiogenic therapy is one of the promising strategies for many types of solid cancers.
Bevacizumab (Avastin), a recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody of vascular …

Targeting histone methyltransferases and demethylases in clinical trials for cancer therapy

L Morera, M Lübbert, M Jung - Clinical epigenetics, 2016 - Springer
The term epigenetics is defined as heritable changes in gene expression that are not due to
alterations of the DNA sequence. In the last years, it has become more and more evident …

DNA methylation QTL map** across diverse human tissues provides molecular links between genetic variation and complex traits

M Oliva, K Demanelis, Y Lu, M Chernoff, F Jasmine… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Studies of DNA methylation (DNAm) in solid human tissues are relatively scarce; tissue-
specific characterization of DNAm is needed to understand its role in gene regulation and its …

K27M in canonical and noncanonical H3 variants occurs in distinct oligodendroglial cell lineages in brain midline gliomas

S Jessa, A Mohammadnia, AS Harutyunyan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Canonical (H3. 1/H3. 2) and noncanonical (H3. 3) histone 3 K27M-mutant gliomas
have unique spatiotemporal distributions, partner alterations and molecular profiles. The …

A novel long noncoding RNA HOXC-AS3 mediates tumorigenesis of gastric cancer by binding to YBX1

E Zhang, X He, C Zhang, J Su, X Lu, X Si, J Chen… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Recently, increasing evidence shows that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs)
play a significant role in human tumorigenesis. However, the function of lncRNAs in human …

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 …

Serum long noncoding RNA HOTAIR as a novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarker in glioblastoma multiforme

SK Tan, C Pastori, C Penas, RJ Komotar, ME Ivan… - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive malignant adult primary
brain tumor. Despite surgical resection followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the …

H3K27 acetylation activated-long non-coding RNA CCAT1 affects cell proliferation and migration by regulating SPRY4 and HOXB13 expression in esophageal …

E Zhang, L Han, D Yin, X He, L Hong, X Si… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Recently, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to have important regulatory
roles in human cancer biology. In our study, we found that lncRNA CCAT1, whose …

P53-regulated long non-coding RNA TUG1 affects cell proliferation in human non-small cell lung cancer, partly through epigenetically regulating HOXB7 expression

EB Zhang, DD Yin, M Sun, R Kong, XH Liu… - Cell death & …, 2014 - nature.com
Recently, a novel class of transcripts, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), is being identified
at a rapid pace. These RNAs have critical roles in diverse biological processes, including …

Exome sequencing identifies somatic mutations of DNA methyltransferase gene DNMT3A in acute monocytic leukemia

XJ Yan, J Xu, ZH Gu, CM Pan, G Lu, Y Shen, JY Shi… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Abnormal epigenetic regulation has been implicated in oncogenesis. We report here the
identification of somatic mutations by exome sequencing in acute monocytic leukemia, the …