BRD4 and Cancer: going beyond transcriptional regulation

B Donati, E Lorenzini, A Ciarrocchi - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
BRD4, member of the Bromodomain and Extraterminal (BET) protein family, is largely
acknowledged in cancer for its role in super-enhancers (SEs) organization and oncogenes …

The BET family in immunity and disease

N Wang, R Wu, D Tang, R Kang - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2021 - nature.com
Innate immunity serves as the rapid and first-line defense against invading pathogens, and
this process can be regulated at various levels, including epigenetic mechanisms. The …

BET proteins as targets for anticancer treatment

A Stathis, F Bertoni - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
Bromodomain and extraterminal domain (BET) proteins are epigenetic readers that regulate
gene expression and are involved in cancer pathogenesis. Over the last years, several BET …

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 …

Getting up to speed with transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II

I Jonkers, JT Lis - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2015 - nature.com
Recent advances in sequencing techniques that measure nascent transcripts and that
reveal the positioning of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) have shown that the pausing of Pol II in …

[HTML][HTML] NF-κB inhibitors in treatment and prevention of lung cancer

RR Rasmi, KM Sakthivel… - Biomedicine & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Intracellular signalling pathways have provided excellent resource for drug development
particularly in the development of cancer therapeutics. A wide variety of malignancies …

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 …

Osteosarcoma mechanobiology and therapeutic targets

Z Shoaib, TM Fan… - British journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Osteosarcoma is one of the most common primary tumours of the bone, with a 5‐year
survival rate of less than 20% after the development of metastases. Osteosarcoma is highly …

The mechanisms behind the therapeutic activity of BET bromodomain inhibition

J Shi, CR Vakoc - Molecular cell, 2014 - cell.com
The bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) protein Brd4 recruits transcriptional regulatory
complexes to acetylated chromatin. While Brd4 is considered to be a general transcriptional …

Bromodomain inhibitors and cancer therapy: From structures to applications

M Pérez-Salvia, M Esteller - Epigenetics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Aberrations in the epigenetic landscape are a hallmark of cancer. Alterations in enzymes
that are “writers,”“erasers,” or “readers” of histone modification marks are common …