Inhibition of bromodomain and extra-terminal proteins (BET) as a potential therapeutic approach in haematological malignancies: emerging preclinical and clinical …

A Chaidos, V Caputo… - Therapeutic advances in …, 2015‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Post-translational modifications of the nucleosomal histone proteins orchestrate chromatin
organization and gene expression in normal and cancer cells. Among them, the acetylation …

Ready, pause, go: regulation of RNA polymerase II pausing and release by cellular signaling pathways

X Liu, WL Kraus, X Bai - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2015‏ - cell.com
Promoter-proximal pausing by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) is a well-established mechanism to
control the timing, rate, and possibly the magnitude of transcriptional responses. Recent …

LncBRM initiates YAP1 signalling activation to drive self-renewal of liver cancer stem cells

P Zhu, Y Wang, J Wu, G Huang, B Liu, B Ye… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Liver cancer stem cells (CSCs) may contribute to the high rate of recurrence and
heterogeneity of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the biology of hepatic CSCs …

Capturing the interactome of newly transcribed RNA

X Bao, X Guo, M Yin, M Tariq, Y Lai, S Kanwal, J Zhou… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
We combine the labeling of newly transcribed RNAs with 5-ethynyluridine with the
characterization of bound proteins. This approach, named capture of the newly transcribed …

DNA methylation directs microRNA biogenesis in mammalian cells

O Glaich, S Parikh, RE Bell, K Mekahel… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
MicroRNA (miRNA) biogenesis initiates co-transcriptionally, but how the Microprocessor
machinery pinpoints the locations of short precursor miRNA sequences within long flanking …

lncRNA DIGIT and BRD3 protein form phase-separated condensates to regulate endoderm differentiation

K Daneshvar, MB Ardehali, IA Klein, FK Hsieh… - Nature cell …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Cooperation between DNA, RNA and protein regulates gene expression and controls
differentiation through interactions that connect regions of nucleic acids and protein domains …

The p53-induced lincRNA-p21 derails somatic cell reprogramming by sustaining H3K9me3 and CpG methylation at pluripotency gene promoters

X Bao, H Wu, X Zhu, X Guo, AP Hutchins, Z Luo… - Cell research, 2015‏ - nature.com
Recent studies have boosted our understanding of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in
numerous biological processes, but few have examined their roles in somatic cell …

Bromodomain 4: a cellular Swiss army knife

BN Devaiah, A Gegonne… - Journal of Leucocyte …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract Bromodomain protein 4 (BRD4) is a transcriptional and epigenetic regulator that
plays a pivotal role in cancer and inflammatory diseases. BRD4 binds and stays associated …

[HTML][HTML] BRD4: New hope in the battle against glioblastoma

W Duan, M Yu, J Chen - Pharmacological research, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The BET family proteins, comprising BRD2, BRD3 and BRD4, represent epigenetic readers
of acetylated histone marks that play pleiotropic roles in the tumorigenesis and growth of …

C/EBPα creates elite cells for iPSC reprogramming by upregulating Klf4 and increasing the levels of Lsd1 and Brd4

B Di Stefano, S Collombet, JS Jakobsen, M Wierer… - Nature cell …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Reprogramming somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) is typically
inefficient and has been explained by elite-cell and stochastic models. We recently reported …