Protein arginine methylation: from enigmatic functions to therapeutic targeting

Q Wu, M Schapira, CH Arrowsmith… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) are emerging as attractive therapeutic targets.
PRMTs regulate transcription, splicing, RNA biology, the DNA damage response and cell …

Alternative splicing and related RNA binding proteins in human health and disease

Y Tao, Q Zhang, H Wang, X Yang, H Mu - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Alternative splicing (AS) serves as a pivotal mechanism in transcriptional regulation,
engendering transcript diversity, and modifications in protein structure and functionality …

Roles and mechanisms of alternative splicing in cancer—implications for care

SC Bonnal, I López-Oreja, J Valcárcel - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Removal of introns from messenger RNA precursors (pre-mRNA splicing) is an essential
step for the expression of most eukaryotic genes. Alternative splicing enables the regulated …

Protein arginine methyltransferases: promising targets for cancer therapy

JW Hwang, Y Cho, GU Bae, SN Kim… - Experimental & molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein methylation, a post-translational modification (PTM), is observed in a wide variety of
cell types from prokaryotes to eukaryotes. With recent and rapid advancements in epigenetic …

The regulation, functions and clinical relevance of arginine methylation

E Guccione, S Richard - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Methylation of arginine residues by protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) is involved
in the regulation of fundamental cellular processes, including transcription, RNA processing …

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 …

RNA splicing dysregulation and the hallmarks of cancer

RK Bradley, O Anczuków - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Dysregulated RNA splicing is a molecular feature that characterizes almost all tumour types.
Cancer-associated splicing alterations arise from both recurrent mutations and altered …

[HTML][HTML] Arginine methylation: the coming of age

RS Blanc, S Richard - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Arginine methylation is a common post-translational modification functioning as an
epigenetic regulator of transcription and playing key roles in pre-mRNA splicing, DNA …

Cellular pathways influenced by protein arginine methylation: Implications for cancer

J Xu, S Richard - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Arginine methylation is an influential post-translational modification occurring on histones,
RNA binding proteins, and many other cellular proteins, affecting their function by altering …

[HTML][HTML] The role of alternative splicing in cancer: From oncogenesis to drug resistance

R Sciarrillo, A Wojtuszkiewicz, YG Assaraf… - Drug Resistance …, 2020 - Elsevier
Alternative splicing is a tightly regulated process whereby non-coding sequences of pre-
mRNA are removed and protein-coding segments are assembled in diverse combinations …