Intrinsically unstructured proteins and their functions

HJ Dyson, PE Wright - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2005 - nature.com
Many gene sequences in eukaryotic genomes encode entire proteins or large segments of
proteins that lack a well-structured three-dimensional fold. Disordered regions can be highly …

Regulation of angiogenesis by hypoxia: role of the HIF system

CW Pugh, PJ Ratcliffe - Nature medicine, 2003 - nature.com
The regulation of angiogenesis by hypoxia is an important component of homeostatic
mechanisms that link vascular oxygen supply to metabolic demand. Molecular …

Dioxygen activation at mononuclear nonheme iron active sites: enzymes, models, and intermediates

M Costas, MP Mehn, MP Jensen, L Que - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
There have been significant advances in our understanding of mononuclear nonheme iron
oxygenases since our 1996 Chemical Reviews article, 1 promoted in large part by the many …

Oxygen sensing by HIF hydroxylases

CJ Schofield, PJ Ratcliffe - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2004 - nature.com
The transcription factor HIF (hypoxia-inducible factor) has a central role in oxygen
homeostasis in animals ranging from nematode worms to man. Recent studies have shown …

Histone demethylation by a family of JmjC domain-containing proteins

Y Tsukada, J Fang, H Erdjument-Bromage, ME Warren… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Covalent modification of histones has an important role in regulating chromatin dynamics
and transcription. Whereas most covalent histone modifications are reversible, until recently …

Transcription regulation by histone methylation: interplay between different covalent modifications of the core histone tails

Y Zhang, D Reinberg - Genes & development, 2001 - genesdev.cshlp.org
In this review, we discuss recent advances made on histone methylation and its diverse
functions in regulating gene expression. Methylation of histone polypeptides might be static …

The oncometabolite 2‐hydroxyglutarate inhibits histone lysine demethylases

R Chowdhury, KK Yeoh, YM Tian, L Hillringhaus… - EMBO …, 2011 - embopress.org
Mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenases (IDHs) have a gain‐of‐function effect leading to R
(−)‐2‐hydroxyglutarate (R‐2HG) accumulation. By using biochemical, structural and cellular …

JmjC-domain-containing proteins and histone demethylation

RJ Klose, EM Kallin, Y Zhang - Nature reviews genetics, 2006 - nature.com
Histone methylation has important roles in regulating gene expression and forms part of the
epigenetic memory system that regulates cell fate and identity. Enzymes that directly remove …

Mechanisms of hypoxia signalling: new implications for nephrology

J Schödel, PJ Ratcliffe - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2019 - nature.com
Studies of the regulation of erythropoietin (EPO) production by the liver and kidneys, one of
the classical physiological responses to hypoxia, led to the discovery of human oxygen …

Fe (II)/α-ketoglutarate-dependent hydroxylases and related enzymes

RP Hausinger - Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Fe (II)/α-ketoglutarate (αKG)-dependent hydroxylases catalyze an amazing diversity of
reactions that result in protein side-chain modifications, repair of alkylated DNA/RNA …