Protein arginine methylation: from enigmatic functions to therapeutic targeting

Q Wu, M Schapira, CH Arrowsmith… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) are emerging as attractive therapeutic targets.
PRMTs regulate transcription, splicing, RNA biology, the DNA damage response and cell …

Targeting epigenetic regulators for cancer therapy: mechanisms and advances in clinical trials

Y Cheng, C He, M Wang, X Ma, F Mo, S Yang… - Signal transduction and …, 2019 - nature.com
Epigenetic alternations concern heritable yet reversible changes in histone or DNA
modifications that regulate gene activity beyond the underlying sequence. Epigenetic …

Protein arginine methyltransferases: promising targets for cancer therapy

JW Hwang, Y Cho, GU Bae, SN Kim… - Experimental & molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein methylation, a post-translational modification (PTM), is observed in a wide variety of
cell types from prokaryotes to eukaryotes. With recent and rapid advancements in epigenetic …

Macrophage polarization in the development and progression of ovarian cancers: an overview

H Cheng, Z Wang, L Fu, T Xu - Frontiers in oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecological malignancy worldwide. Most patients are
diagnosed at late stages because of atypical symptoms and the lack of effective early …

Decoding endoplasmic reticulum stress signals in cancer cells and antitumor immunity

C Salvagno, JK Mandula, PC Rodriguez… - Trends in cancer, 2022 - cell.com
The tumor microenvironment (TME) provokes endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in
malignant cells and infiltrating immune populations. Sensing and responding to ER stress is …

Epigenetic regulation in cancer therapy: From mechanisms to clinical advances

L Tao, Y Zhou, Y Luo, J Qiu, Y **ao, J Zou… - MedComm …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Epigenetic regulation refers to the alteration of gene expression independent of changes in
DNA sequence. It involves chemical modifications such as DNA methylation, histone …

[HTML][HTML] EZH2 inhibition sensitizes CARM1-high, homologous recombination proficient ovarian cancers to PARP inhibition

S Karakashev, T Fukumoto, B Zhao, J Lin, S Wu… - Cancer Cell, 2020 - cell.com
In response to DNA double-strand breaks, MAD2L2-containing shieldin complex plays a
critical role in the choice between homologous recombination (HR) and non-homologous …

Non-canonical functions of spliceosome components in cancer progression

OM Ivanova, KS Anufrieva, AN Kazakova… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
Dysregulation of pre-mRNA splicing is a common hallmark of cancer cells and it is
associated with altered expression, localization, and mutations of the components of the …

CARM1/PRMT4: making its mark beyond its function as a transcriptional coactivator

S Suresh, S Huard, T Dubois - Trends in cell biology, 2021 - cell.com
Coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase 1 (CARM1), identified 20 years ago as a
coregulator of transcription, is an enzyme that catalyzes arginine methylation of proteins …

BAF155 methylation drives metastasis by hijacking super-enhancers and subverting anti-tumor immunity

EJ Kim, P Liu, S Zhang, K Donahue… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Subunits of the chromatin remodeler SWI/SNF are the most frequently disrupted genes in
cancer. However, how post-translational modifications (PTM) of SWI/SNF subunits elicit …