SETD2: from chromatin modifier to multipronged regulator of the genome and beyond

TM Molenaar, F van Leeuwen - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Histone modifying enzymes play critical roles in many key cellular processes and are
appealing proteins for targeting by small molecules in disease. However, while the functions …

Using ubiquitin binders to decipher the ubiquitin code

M Mattern, J Sutherland, K Kadimisetty, R Barrio… - Trends in biochemical …, 2019 - cell.com
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) by ubiquitin (Ub) are versatile, highly dynamic, and
involved in nearly all aspects of eukaryote biological function. The reversibility and …

[HTML][HTML] Gcn5 and Esa1 function as histone crotonyltransferases to regulate crotonylation-dependent transcription

L Kollenstart, AJL de Groot, GMC Janssen… - Journal of Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) are critical for processes such as
transcription. The more notable among these are the nonacetyl histone lysine acylation …

Adenosine kinase inhibition protects mice from abdominal aortic aneurysm via epigenetic modulation of VSMC inflammation

J Xu, Z Liu, Q Yang, Q Ma, Y Zhou, Y Cai… - Cardiovascular …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Aims Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a common, serious vascular disease with no
effective pharmacological treatment. The nucleoside adenosine plays an important role in …

Nucleosome and ubiquitin position Set2 to methylate H3K36

S Bilokapic, M Halic - Nature Communications, 2019 - nature.com
Histone H3 lysine 36 methylation (H3K36me) is a conserved histone modification deposited
by the Set2 methyltransferases. Recent findings show that over-expression or mutation of …

Histone methylation in DNA repair and clinical practice: new findings during the past 5-years

S Wei, C Li, Z Yin, J Wen, H Meng, L Xue… - Journal of …, 2018 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are highly toxic lesions that can impair cellular
homeostasis and genome stability to result in tumorigenesis for inappropriate repair …

[HTML][HTML] The chromatin landscape around DNA double-strand breaks in yeast and its influence on DNA repair pathway choice

C Frigerio, E Di Nisio, M Galli, CV Colombo… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are harmful DNA lesions, which elicit catastrophic
consequences for genome stability if not properly repaired. DSBs can be repaired by either …

The histone methyltransferase DOT1L prevents antigen-independent differentiation and safeguards epigenetic identity of CD8+ T cells

EM Kwesi-Maliepaard, MA Aslam… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Cytotoxic T cell differentiation is guided by epigenome adaptations, but how epigenetic
mechanisms control lymphocyte development has not been well defined. Here we show that …

Replication-IDentifier links epigenetic and metabolic pathways to the replication stress response

SC van der Horst, L Kollenstart, A Batté… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Perturbation of DNA replication, for instance by hydroxyurea-dependent dNTP exhaustion,
often leads to stalling or collapse of replication forks. This triggers a replication stress …

Conserved crosstalk between histone deacetylation and H3K79 methylation generates DOT1L‐dose dependency in HDAC1‐deficient thymic lymphoma

H Vlaming, CM McLean, T Korthout… - The EMBO …, 2019 - embopress.org
Abstract DOT 1L methylates histone H3K79 and is aberrantly regulated in MLL‐rearranged
leukemia. Inhibitors have been developed to target DOT 1L activity in leukemia, but cellular …