Immune responses to endogenous retroelements: taking the bad with the good

G Kassiotis, JP Stoye - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2016 - nature.com
The ultimate form of parasitism and evasion of host immunity is for the parasite genome to
enter the germ line of the host species. Retroviruses have invaded the host germ line on the …

Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs): sha** the innate immune response in cancers

V Alcazer, P Bonaventura, S Depil - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs) are accounting for 8% of the human genome.
These sequences are remnants from ancient germline infections by exogenous retroviruses …

Cytoplasmic localization of SETDB1-induced Warburg effect via c-MYC-LDHA axis enhances migration and invasion in breast carcinoma

W Yang, Y Wei, T Wang, Y Xu… - International …, 2024 - spandidos-publications.com
SET domain bifurcated 1 (SETDB1), a pivotal histone lysine methyltransferase, is
transported to the cytoplasm via a chromosome region maintenance 1 (CMR1)-dependent …

Role of histone methyltransferase SETDB1 in regulation of tumourigenesis and immune response

Z Zhao, L Feng, X Peng, T Ma, R Tong… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Epigenetic alterations are implicated in tumour immune evasion and immune checkpoint
blockade (ICB) resistance. SET domain bifurcated histone methyltransferase 1 (SETDB1) is …

A histone methyltransferase ESET is critical for T cell development

S Takikita, R Muro, T Takai, T Otsubo… - The Journal of …, 2016 - journals.aai.org
ESET/SETDB1, one of the major histone methyltransferases, catalyzes histone 3 lysine 9
(H3K9) trimethylation. ESET is critical for suppressing expression of retroviral elements in …

SETDB1: progress and prospects in cancer treatment potential and inhibitor research

T Ma, F Xu, Y Hou, Y Shu, Z Zhao, Y Zhang, L Bai… - Bioorganic …, 2024 - Elsevier
SET domain bifurcated methyltransferase 1 (SETDB1) serves as a histone lysine
methyltransferase, catalyzing the di-and tri-methylation of histone H3K9. Mounting evidence …

Retrotransposon derepression leads to activation of the unfolded protein response and apoptosis in pro-B cells

A Pasquarella, A Ebert, G Pereira de Almeida… - …, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT The H3K9me3-specific histone methyltransferase Setdb1 impacts on
transcriptional regulation by repressing both developmental genes and retrotransposons …

SETDB1 mediated FosB expression increases the cell proliferation rate during anticancer drug therapy

HH Na, HJ Noh, HM Cheong, Y Kang, KC Kim - BMB reports, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The efficacy of anticancer drugs depends on a variety of signaling pathways, which can be
positively or negatively regulated. In this study, we show that SETDB1 HMTase is down …

Identification of potential target genes of non-small cell lung cancer in response to resveratrol treatment by bioinformatics analysis

P Gao, G Ren - Aging (Albany NY), 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type in lung cancer in the world,
and it severely threatens the life of patients. Resveratrol has been reported to inhibit cancer …

Chromatin-modifying enzymes in T cell development

MJ Shapiro, VS Shapiro - Annual Review of Immunology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
T cell development involves stepwise progression through defined stages that give rise to
multiple T cell subtypes, and this is accompanied by the establishment of stage-specific …