Mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes: emerging mechanisms and therapeutic strategies

RC Centore, GJ Sandoval, LMM Soares, C Kadoch… - Trends in Genetics, 2020 - cell.com
Small molecule-based targeting of chromatin regulatory factors has emerged as a promising
therapeutic strategy in recent years. The development and ongoing clinical evaluation of …

[HTML][HTML] Genome regulation by polycomb and trithorax: 70 years and counting

B Schuettengruber, HM Bourbon, L Di Croce, G Cavalli - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Polycomb (PcG) and Trithorax (TrxG) group proteins are evolutionarily conserved chromatin-
modifying factors originally identified as part of an epigenetic cellular memory system that …

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 …

Mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes and cancer: Mechanistic insights gained from human genomics

C Kadoch, GR Crabtree - Science advances, 2015 - science.org
Over the past 4 years, nearly 100 exome sequencing studies have revealed the high
frequency of mutations in the genes encoding the subunits of ATP-dependent chromatin …

A long noncoding RNA protects the heart from pathological hypertrophy

P Han, W Li, CH Lin, J Yang, C Shang, ST Nurnberg… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The role of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) in adult hearts is unknown; also unclear is how
lncRNA modulates nucleosome remodelling. An estimated 70% of mouse genes undergo …

Proteomic and bioinformatic analysis of mammalian SWI/SNF complexes identifies extensive roles in human malignancy

C Kadoch, DC Hargreaves, C Hodges, L Elias, L Ho… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Subunits of mammalian SWI/SNF (mSWI/SNF or BAF) complexes have recently been
implicated as tumor suppressors in human malignancies. To understand the full extent of …

The many roles of BAF (mSWI/SNF) and PBAF complexes in cancer

C Hodges, JG Kirkland… - Cold Spring …, 2016 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
During the last decade, a host of epigenetic mechanisms were found to contribute to cancer
and other human diseases. Several genomic studies have revealed that∼ 20% of …

Pharmacological disruption of mSWI/SNF complex activity restricts SARS-CoV-2 infection

J Wei, A Patil, CK Collings, MM Alfajaro, Y Liang… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Identification of host determinants of coronavirus infection informs mechanisms of viral
pathogenesis and can provide new drug targets. Here we demonstrate that mammalian …

Dynamics of BAF–Polycomb complex opposition on heterochromatin in normal and oncogenic states

C Kadoch, RT Williams, JP Calarco, EL Miller… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The opposition between Polycomb repressive complexes (PRCs) and BAF (mSWI/SNF)
complexes has a critical role in both development and disease. Mutations in the genes …

ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling: genetics, genomics and mechanisms

DC Hargreaves, GR Crabtree - Cell research, 2011 - nature.com
Macromolecular assemblies that regulate chromatin structure using the energy of ATP
hydrolysis have critical roles in development, cancer, and stem cell biology. The ATPases of …