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J Med Chem
January 2025
Department of Pharmaceutical and Cell Biological Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Institute, University of Bonn institution, An der Immenburg 4, Bonn 53121, Germany.
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) represents a promising alternative to conventional occupancy-driven protein inhibition. Despite the existence of more than 600 E3 ligases in the human proteome, so far only a few have been utilized for TPD of histone deacetylases (HDACs), which represent important epigenetic anticancer drug targets. In this study, we disclose the first-in-class Fem-1 homologue B (FEM1B)-recruiting HDAC degraders.
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January 2025
Department of Medicine, Clinic III - Hematology, Oncology, Palliative Medicine, Rostock University Medical Center, Germany.
Hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes is a hallmark of leukemia. The hypomethylating agent decitabine covalently binds, and degrades DNA (cytosine-5)-methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1). Structural similarities within DNA-binding domains of DNMT1, and the leukemic driver histone-lysine N-methyltransferase 2A (KMT2A) suggest that decitabine might also affect the latter.
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December 2024
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Disease Center, NHC Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China; Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, 100191, China. Electronic address:
H-NS is a prokaryotic histone-like protein that binds to bacterial chromosomal DNA with important regulatory roles in gene expression. Unlike histone proteins, hitherto post-translational modifications of H-NS are still largely uncharacterized, especially in bacterial pathogens. Salmonella Typhimurium is a primary enteric pathogen and its virulence is mainly dependent on specialized type III secretion systems (T3SSs), which were evolutionarily acquired via horizontal gene transfer.
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November 2024
Laboratory of Chemistry and Biophysics of Macromolecules (LCBM), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), School of Basic Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
The dysregulated post-translational modification of proteins is an established hallmark of human disease. Through Zn-dependent hydrolysis of acyl-lysine modifications, histone deacetylases (HDACs) are key regulators of disease-implicated signaling pathways and tractable drug targets in the clinic. Early targeting of this family of 11 enzymes (HDAC1-11) afforded a first generation of broadly acting inhibitors with medicinal applications in oncology, specifically in cutaneous and peripheral T-cell lymphomas and in multiple myeloma.
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November 2024
Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
The paternal germline contains a plethora of information that extends beyond DNA. Packaged within the sperm cell is a wealth of epigenetic information, including DNA methylation, small RNAs, and chromatin associated histone proteins and their covalently attached post-translational modifications. Paternal chromatin is particularly unique, as during the process of spermatogenesis, nearly all histones are evicted from the genome with only a small percentage retained in the mature sperm cell.
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