Targeting epigenetic regulators for cancer therapy: mechanisms and advances in clinical trials

Y Cheng, C He, M Wang, X Ma, F Mo, S Yang… - Signal transduction and …, 2019 - nature.com
Epigenetic alternations concern heritable yet reversible changes in histone or DNA
modifications that regulate gene activity beyond the underlying sequence. Epigenetic …

A short guide to histone deacetylases including recent progress on class II enzymes

SY Park, JS Kim - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2020 - nature.com
The interaction between histones and DNA is important for eukaryotic gene expression. A
loose interaction caused, for example, by the neutralization of a positive charge on the …

Class I histone deacetylases (HDAC1–3) are histone lysine delactylases

C Moreno-Yruela, D Zhang, W Wei, M Bæk, W Liu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Lysine L-lactylation [K (L-la)] is a newly discovered histone mark stimulated under conditions
of high glycolysis, such as the Warburg effect. K (L-la) is associated with functions that are …

The roles of histone deacetylases and their inhibitors in cancer therapy

G Li, Y Tian, WG Zhu - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Genetic mutations and abnormal gene regulation are key mechanisms underlying
tumorigenesis. Nucleosomes, which consist of DNA wrapped around histone cores …

HDAC-targeting epigenetic modulators for cancer immunotherapy

B Cheng, W Pan, Y **ao, Z Ding, Y Zhou, X Fei… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
HDAC inhibitors, which can inhibit the activity of HDAC enzymes, have been extensively
studied in tumor immunotherapy and have shown potential therapeutic effects in cancer …

Lysine acetylation goes global: from epigenetics to metabolism and therapeutics

I Ali, RJ Conrad, E Verdin, M Ott - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Post-translational acetylation of lysine residues has emerged as a key regulatory
mechanism in all eukaryotic organisms. Originally discovered in 1963 as a unique …

Microbiota-derived metabolite promotes HDAC3 activity in the gut

S Wu, S Hashimoto-Hill, V Woo, EM Eshleman, J Whitt… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The coevolution of mammalian hosts and their beneficial commensal microbes has led to
development of symbiotic host–microbiota relationships. Epigenetic machinery permits …

iJAZ-based approach to engineer lepidopteran pest resistance in multiple crop species

H Mo, H Chang, G Zhao, G Hu, X Luo, X Jia, Z Xu… - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
The fall armyworm (FAW) poses a significant threat to global crop production. Here we
showed that overexpression of jasmonate ZIM-domain (JAZ) protein GhJAZ24 confers …

Anticancer therapy with HDAC inhibitors: mechanism-based combination strategies and future perspectives

R Jenke, N Reßing, FK Hansen, A Aigner, T Büch - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Beyond mutations, epigenetic changes have been described as drivers for
cancer as well. While leaving the overall DNA structure intact, they can be responsible for …

Modulators of protein–protein interactions

LG Milroy, TN Grossmann, S Hennig… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Since Hedin's characterization of trypsin and antitrypsin in 1906,(1) arguably the first
account of a regulatory protein–protein interaction (PPI), contemporary understanding of …