Hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal phenotypes promote metastasis and therapy resistance across carcinomas

MK Jolly, JA Somarelli, M Sheth, A Biddle… - Pharmacology & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cancer metastasis and therapy resistance are the major unsolved clinical challenges, and
account for nearly all cancer-related deaths. Both metastasis and therapy resistance are …

Tumor metastasis: Mechanistic insights and therapeutic interventions

M Liu, J Yang, B Xu, X Zhang - MedComm, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer metastasis is responsible for the vast majority of cancer‐related deaths worldwide. In
contrast to numerous discoveries that reveal the detailed mechanisms leading to the …

The histone demethylase UTX/KDM6A in cancer: Progress and puzzles

WA Schulz, A Lang, J Koch… - International journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The lysine‐specific demethylase 6A/UTX (gene name KDM6A) acts as a component of the
COMPASS complex to control gene activation. UTX demethylates H3K27me2/3 at genes …

New insights into the implication of epigenetic alterations in the EMT of triple negative breast cancer

N Khaled, Y Bidet - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is the most common cancer and leading cause of cancer death among
women worldwide, encompassing a wide heterogeneity of subtypes with different clinical …

Lysine-specific demethylase 1 promises to be a novel target in cancer drug resistance: therapeutic implications

FF Yang, XL Xu, T Hu, JQ Liu, JZ Zhou… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy are effective against most tumors, but
drug resistance remains a barrier to successful treatment. Lysine-specific demethylase 1 …

Regulating methylation at H3K27: a trick or treat for cancer cell plasticity

P Das, JH Taube - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Regulation of gene expression is important for appropriate cell
development but can also lead to inappropriate cell transformation resulting in cancer …

[HTML][HTML] KDM6A regulates cell plasticity and pancreatic cancer progression by noncanonical activin pathway

Z Yi, S Wei, L **, S Jeyarajan, J Yang, Y Gu… - Cellular and molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Inactivating mutations of KDM6A, a histone demethylase, were
frequently found in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). We investigated the role of …

H3K27me3 is an epigenetic barrier while KDM6A overexpression improves nuclear reprogramming efficiency

C Zhou, Y Wang, J Zhang, J Su, Q An, X Liu… - The FASEB …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aberrant epigenetic reprogramming is a major factor of developmental failure of cloned
embryos. Histone H3 lysine 27 trimethylation (H3K27me3), a histone mark for transcriptional …

Targeting histone modifications in breast cancer: a precise weapon on the way

W Li, H Wu, S Sui, Q Wang, S Xu… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Histone modifications (HMs) contribute to maintaining genomic stability, transcription, DNA
repair, and modulating chromatin in cancer cells. Furthermore, HMs are dynamic and …

Lysine demethylases KDM6A and UTY: The X and Y of histone demethylation

I Gažová, A Lengeling, KM Summers - Molecular genetics and metabolism, 2019 - Elsevier
Histone demethylases remove transcriptional repressive marks from histones in the nucleus.
KDM6A (also known as UTX) is a lysine demethylase which acts on the trimethylated lysine …