Role of novel histone modifications in cancer

© Shanmugam et al. Oncogenesis is a multistep process mediated by a variety of factors including epigenetic modifications. Global epigenetic post-translational modifications have been detected in almost all cancers types. Epigenetic changes appear briefly and do not involve permanent changes to the...

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Main Authors: Shanmugam, M., Arfuso, Frank, Arumugam, S., Chinnathambi, A., Jinsong, B., Warrier, Sudha, Wang, L., Kumar, A., Ahn, K., Sethi, G., Lakshmanan, M.
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Published: Impact Journals LLC 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66293
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author Shanmugam, M.
Arfuso, Frank
Arumugam, S.
Chinnathambi, A.
Jinsong, B.
Warrier, Sudha
Wang, L.
Kumar, A.
Ahn, K.
Sethi, G.
Lakshmanan, M.
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Arfuso, Frank
Arumugam, S.
Chinnathambi, A.
Jinsong, B.
Warrier, Sudha
Wang, L.
Kumar, A.
Ahn, K.
Sethi, G.
Lakshmanan, M.
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description © Shanmugam et al. Oncogenesis is a multistep process mediated by a variety of factors including epigenetic modifications. Global epigenetic post-translational modifications have been detected in almost all cancers types. Epigenetic changes appear briefly and do not involve permanent changes to the primary DNA sequence. These epigenetic modifications occur in key oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and transcription factors, leading to cancer initiation and progression. The most commonly observed epigenetic changes include DNA methylation, histone lysine methylation and demethylation, histone lysine acetylation and deacetylation. However, there are several other novel post-translational modifications that have been observed in recent times such as neddylation, sumoylation, glycosylation, phosphorylation, poly- ADP ribosylation, ubiquitination as well as transcriptional regulation and these have been briefly discussed in this article. We have also highlighted the diverse epigenetic changes that occur during the process of tumorigenesis and described the role of histone modifications that can occur on tumor suppressor genes as well as oncogenes, which regulate tumorigenesis and can thus form the basis of novel strategies for cancer therapy.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-662932018-04-30T02:48:31Z Role of novel histone modifications in cancer Shanmugam, M. Arfuso, Frank Arumugam, S. Chinnathambi, A. Jinsong, B. Warrier, Sudha Wang, L. Kumar, A. Ahn, K. Sethi, G. Lakshmanan, M. © Shanmugam et al. Oncogenesis is a multistep process mediated by a variety of factors including epigenetic modifications. Global epigenetic post-translational modifications have been detected in almost all cancers types. Epigenetic changes appear briefly and do not involve permanent changes to the primary DNA sequence. These epigenetic modifications occur in key oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and transcription factors, leading to cancer initiation and progression. The most commonly observed epigenetic changes include DNA methylation, histone lysine methylation and demethylation, histone lysine acetylation and deacetylation. However, there are several other novel post-translational modifications that have been observed in recent times such as neddylation, sumoylation, glycosylation, phosphorylation, poly- ADP ribosylation, ubiquitination as well as transcriptional regulation and these have been briefly discussed in this article. We have also highlighted the diverse epigenetic changes that occur during the process of tumorigenesis and described the role of histone modifications that can occur on tumor suppressor genes as well as oncogenes, which regulate tumorigenesis and can thus form the basis of novel strategies for cancer therapy. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66293 10.18632/oncotarget.23356 Impact Journals LLC restricted
spellingShingle Shanmugam, M.
Arfuso, Frank
Arumugam, S.
Chinnathambi, A.
Jinsong, B.
Warrier, Sudha
Wang, L.
Kumar, A.
Ahn, K.
Sethi, G.
Lakshmanan, M.
Role of novel histone modifications in cancer
title Role of novel histone modifications in cancer
title_full Role of novel histone modifications in cancer
title_fullStr Role of novel histone modifications in cancer
title_full_unstemmed Role of novel histone modifications in cancer
title_short Role of novel histone modifications in cancer
title_sort role of novel histone modifications in cancer
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66293