Microbial regulation of host physiology by short-chain fatty acids

B van der Hee, JM Wells - Trends in Microbiology, 2021 - cell.com
Our ancestral diet consisted of much more nondigestible fiber than that of many societies
today. Thus, from an evolutionary perspective the human genome and its physiological and …

The molecular hallmarks of epigenetic control

CD Allis, T Jenuwein - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Over the past 20 years, breakthrough discoveries of chromatin-modifying enzymes and
associated mechanisms that alter chromatin in response to physiological or pathological …

Targeting macrophages: therapeutic approaches in cancer

L Cassetta, JW Pollard - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2018 - nature.com
Infiltration of macrophages in solid tumours is associated with poor prognosis and correlates
with chemotherapy resistance in most cancers. In mouse models of cancer, macrophages …

A review of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in disease: potential anti-NETs therapeutics

V Mutua, LJ Gershwin - Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology, 2021 - Springer
Activated neutrophils release neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in response to a variety of
stimuli. NETosis is driven by protein-arginine deiminase type 4, with the release of …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-cancer patterns of somatic copy number alteration

TI Zack, SE Schumacher, SL Carter, AD Cherniack… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Determining how somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) promote cancer is an important
goal. We characterized SCNA patterns in 4,934 cancers from The Cancer Genome Atlas …

Small molecules, big targets: drug discovery faces the protein–protein interaction challenge

DE Scott, AR Bayly, C Abell, J Skidmore - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2016 - nature.com
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are of pivotal importance in the regulation of biological
systems and are consequently implicated in the development of disease states. Recent work …

Epigenetic regulation by gut microbiota

V Woo, T Alenghat - Gut microbes, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The gastrointestinal tract is continuously exposed to trillions of commensal microbes,
collectively termed the microbiota, which are environmental stimuli that can direct health and …

Histone modifications and cancer

JE Audia, RM Campbell - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2016 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Histone posttranslational modifications represent a versatile set of epigenetic marks
involved not only in dynamic cellular processes, such as transcription and DNA repair, but …

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] The world of protein acetylation

A Drazic, LM Myklebust, R Ree, T Arnesen - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2016 - Elsevier
Acetylation is one of the major post-translational protein modifications in the cell, with
manifold effects on the protein level as well as on the metabolome level. The acetyl group …