Browning of the white adipose tissue regulation: New insights into nutritional and metabolic relevance in health and diseases

SA Machado, G Pasquarelli-do-Nascimento… - Nutrition & …, 2022 - Springer
Adipose tissues are dynamic tissues that play crucial physiological roles in maintaining
health and homeostasis. Although white adipose tissue and brown adipose tissue are …

Histone lysine methyltransferases in biology and disease

D Husmann, O Gozani - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2019 - nature.com
The precise temporal and spatial coordination of histone lysine methylation dynamics across
the epigenome regulates virtually all DNA-templated processes. A large number of histone …

Forming functional fat: a growing understanding of adipocyte differentiation

AG Cristancho, MA Lazar - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2011 - nature.com
Adipose tissue, which is primarily composed of adipocytes, is crucial for maintaining energy
and metabolic homeostasis. Adipogenesis is thought to occur in two stages: commitment of …

The COMPASS family of histone H3K4 methylases: mechanisms of regulation in development and disease pathogenesis

A Shilatifard - Annual review of biochemistry, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Set1/COMPASS was the first histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4)
methylase identified over 10 years ago. Since then, it has been demonstrated that …

Hijacked in cancer: the KMT2 (MLL) family of methyltransferases

RC Rao, Y Dou - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Histone–lysine N-methyltransferase 2 (KMT2) family proteins methylate lysine 4 on
the histone H3 tail at important regulatory regions in the genome and thereby impart crucial …

Therapeutic implications of menin inhibition in acute leukemias

GC Issa, F Ravandi, CD DiNardo, E Jabbour… - Leukemia, 2021 - nature.com
Menin inhibitors are novel targeted agents currently in clinical development for the treatment
of genetically defined subsets of acute leukemia. Menin has a tumor suppressor function in …

COMPASS and SWI/SNF complexes in development and disease

BK Cenik, A Shilatifard - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Trithorax group (TrxG) of proteins is a large family of epigenetic regulators that
form multiprotein complexes to counteract repressive developmental gene expression …

Is H3K4me3 instructive for transcription activation?

FS Howe, H Fischl, SC Murray, J Mellor - Bioessays, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tri‐methylation of lysine 4 on histone H3 (H3K4me3) is a near‐universal chromatin
modification at the transcription start site of active genes in eukaryotes from yeast to man …

H3K4 mono-and di-methyltransferase MLL4 is required for enhancer activation during cell differentiation

JE Lee, C Wang, S Xu, YW Cho, L Wang, X Feng… - elife, 2013 - elifesciences.org
Enhancers play a central role in cell-type-specific gene expression and are marked by
H3K4me1/2. Active enhancers are further marked by H3K27ac. However, the …

Histone H3 lysine 4 methyltransferase KMT2D

E Froimchuk, Y Jang, K Ge - Gene, 2017 - Elsevier
Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase 2D (KMT2D), also known as MLL4 and MLL2 in humans
and Mll4 in mice, belongs to a family of mammalian histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) …