The anthracycline antibiotics: Antitumor drugs that alter chromatin structure
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The molecular mechanisms involved on the interaction of anthracycline antibiotic drug used in cancer chemotherapy with chromatin and its components, DNA and histones are reviewed. The study suggests that one very important component of the activity of these drugs is the result of these manifold interactions that lead to a chromatin unfolding and aggregation.
Publication Name: BioEssays
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0265-9247
Year: 2005
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Dynamic regulation of DNA methylation coupled transcriptional repression: BDNF regulation by MeCP2
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A recurrent theme in eukaryotic genome regulation stipulates that the properties of the DNA are strongly influenced by the nucleoprotein complex into which it is assembled. The modulation of both DNA methylation itself, as well as the machinery implicated in its interpretation , are involved in acute gene regulation.
Publication Name: BioEssays
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0265-9247
Year: 2004
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DNMT cooperativity-the developing links between methylation, chromatin structure and cancer
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The biological significance of gene expression with emphasis on the impact of DNA methylation and the enzymology of DNA methyltransferases in cancer are discussed. Studies reveal that the methyltransferases DNMT1 and DNMT3b cooperatively maintain DNA methylation and gene silencing in human cancer cells.
Publication Name: BioEssays
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0265-9247
Year: 2003
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