The roles of Polycomb repressive complexes in mammalian development and cancer

A Piunti, A Shilatifard - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
More than 80 years ago, the first Polycomb-related phenotype was identified in Drosophila
melanogaster. Later, a group of diverse genes collectively called Polycomb group (PcG) …

The roles of DNA, RNA and histone methylation in ageing and cancer

EM Michalak, ML Burr, AJ Bannister… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
Chromatin is a macromolecular complex predominantly comprising DNA, histone proteins
and RNA. The methylation of chromatin components is highly conserved as it helps …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical efficacy of ONC201 in H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline gliomas is driven by disruption of integrated metabolic and epigenetic pathways

S Venneti, AR Kawakibi, S Ji, SM Waszak… - Cancer …, 2023 - aacrjournals.org
Patients with H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline glioma (DMG) have no proven effective
therapies. ONC201 has recently demonstrated efficacy in these patients, but the mechanism …

Spatially controlled construction of assembloids using bioprinting

JG Roth, LG Brunel, MS Huang, Y Liu, B Cai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The biofabrication of three-dimensional (3D) tissues that recapitulate organ-specific
architecture and function would benefit from temporal and spatial control of cell-cell …

Clinical practice guidelines for the management of adult diffuse gliomas

T Jiang, DH Nam, Z Ram, W Poon, J Wang… - Cancer letters, 2021 - Elsevier
To follow the revision of the fourth edition of WHO classification and the recent progress on
the management of diffuse gliomas, the joint guideline committee of Chinese Glioma …

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 …

Reevaluating the roles of histone-modifying enzymes and their associated chromatin modifications in transcriptional regulation

MAJ Morgan, A Shilatifard - Nature genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Histone-modifying enzymes are implicated in the control of diverse DNA-templated
processes including gene expression. Here, we outline historical and current thinking …

Mechanisms of Polycomb group protein function in cancer

V Parreno, AM Martinez, G Cavalli - Cell research, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer arises from a multitude of disorders resulting in loss of differentiation and a stem cell-
like phenotype characterized by uncontrolled growth. Polycomb Group (PcG) proteins are …