ATRX, a guardian of chromatin

P Aguilera, AJ López-Contreras - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
ATRX (alpha-thalassemia mental retardation X-linked) is one of the most frequently mutated
tumor suppressor genes in human cancers, especially in glioma, and recent findings …

[HTML][HTML] G-quadruplex-binding proteins: promising targets for drug design

H Shu, R Zhang, K **ao, J Yang, X Sun - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
G-quadruplexes (G4s) are non-canonical secondary nucleic acid structures. Sequences with
the potential to form G4s are abundant in regulatory regions of the genome including …

Dynamic de novo heterochromatin assembly and disassembly at replication forks ensures fork stability

V Gaggioli, CSY Lo, N Reverón-Gómez… - Nature cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Chromatin is dynamically reorganized when DNA replication forks are challenged. However,
the process of epigenetic reorganization and its implication for fork stability is poorly …

Ferroptosis in osteocytes as a target for protection against postmenopausal osteoporosis

Z Jiang, G Qi, X He, Y Yu, Y Cao, C Zhang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ferroptosis is a necrotic form of iron‐dependent regulatory cell death. Estrogen withdrawal
can interfere with iron metabolism, which is responsible for the pathogenesis of …

BLM helicase unwinds lagging strand substrates to assemble the ALT telomere damage response

H Jiang, T Zhang, H Kaur, T Shi, A Krishnan, Y Kwon… - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
The Bloom syndrome (BLM) helicase is critical for alternative lengthening of telomeres
(ALT), a homology-directed repair (HDR)-mediated telomere maintenance mechanism that …

Mechanisms of alternative lengthening of telomeres

RJ O'Sullivan, RA Greenberg - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2025 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
In recent years, significant advances have been made in understanding the intricate details
of the mechanisms underlying alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT). Studies of a …

DAXX adds a de novo H3. 3K9me3 deposition pathway to the histone chaperone network

M Carraro, IA Hendriks, CM Hammond… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
A multitude of histone chaperones are required to support histones from their biosynthesis
until DNA deposition. They cooperate through the formation of histone co-chaperone …

Multifunctional histone variants in genome function

LH Wong, DJ Tremethick - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Histones are integral components of eukaryotic chromatin that have a pivotal role in the
organization and function of the genome. The dynamic regulation of chromatin involves the …

DAXX-ATRX regulation of p53 chromatin binding and DNA damage response

N Gulve, C Su, Z Deng, SS Soldan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
DAXX and ATRX are tumor suppressor proteins that form a histone H3. 3 chaperone
complex and are frequently mutated in cancers with the alternative lengthening of telomeres …

The chromatin remodeler ATRX: role and mechanism in biology and cancer

Y Pang, X Chen, T Ji, M Cheng, R Wang, C Zhang… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary ATRX is one of the most frequently mutated tumor suppressor genes in
human cancers. ATRX protein is a chromatin remodeler and transcriptional regulator that is …