Regulation, functions and transmission of bivalent chromatin during mammalian development

TA Macrae, J Fothergill-Robinson… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Cells differentiate and progress through development guided by a dynamic chromatin
landscape that mediates gene expression programmes. During development, mammalian …

The roles of Polycomb repressive complexes in mammalian development and cancer

A Piunti, A Shilatifard - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
More than 80 years ago, the first Polycomb-related phenotype was identified in Drosophila
melanogaster. Later, a group of diverse genes collectively called Polycomb group (PcG) …

Phase separation drives aberrant chromatin loo** and cancer development

JH Ahn, ES Davis, TA Daugird, S Zhao, IY Quiroga… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The development of cancer is intimately associated with genetic abnormalities that target
proteins with intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs). In human haematological malignancies …

EZH2 noncanonically binds cMyc and p300 through a cryptic transactivation domain to mediate gene activation and promote oncogenesis

J Wang, X Yu, W Gong, X Liu, KS Park, A Ma… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Canonically, EZH2 serves as the catalytic subunit of PRC2, which mediates H3K27me3
deposition and transcriptional repression. Here, we report that in acute leukaemias, EZH2 …

Molecular mechanisms directing PRC2 recruitment and H3K27 methylation

A Laugesen, JW Højfeldt, K Helin - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
The polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is a chromatin-associated methyltransferase
catalyzing mono-, di-, and trimethylation of lysine 27 on histone H3 (H3K27). This activity is …

A comprehensive roadmap of murine spermatogenesis defined by single-cell RNA-seq

CD Green, Q Ma, GL Manske, AN Shami, X Zheng… - Developmental cell, 2018 - cell.com
Spermatogenesis requires intricate interactions between the germline and somatic cells.
Within a given cross section of a seminiferous tubule, multiple germ and somatic cell types …

Bridged proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) enables degradation of undruggable targets

Y **ong, Y Zhong, H Yim, X Yang, KS Park… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) are attractive therapeutic modalities for
degrading disease-causing proteins. While many PROTACs have been developed for …

The interplay of histone modifications–writers that read

T Zhang, S Cooper, N Brockdorff - EMBO reports, 2015 - embopress.org
Histones are subject to a vast array of posttranslational modifications including acetylation,
methylation, phosphorylation, and ubiquitylation. The writers of these modifications play …

A selective WDR5 degrader inhibits acute myeloid leukemia in patient-derived mouse models

X Yu, D Li, J Kottur, Y Shen, HS Kim, KS Park… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Interactions between WD40 repeat domain protein 5 (WDR5) and its various partners such
as mixed lineage leukemia (MLL) and c-MYC are essential for sustaining oncogenesis in …

The interplay between DNA and histone methylation: molecular mechanisms and disease implications

Y Li, X Chen, C Lu - EMBO reports, 2021 - embopress.org
Methylation of cytosine in CpG dinucleotides and histone lysine and arginine residues is a
chromatin modification that critically contributes to the regulation of genome integrity …