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ReviewFrontiers in molecular biosciences2021

The Functions of BET Proteins in Gene Transcription of Biology and Diseases.

Ka Lung Cheung, Claudia Kim, Ming-Ming Zhou

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Review in Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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75citing papers in PubMed
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

75 citing papers in PubMed, 108 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A Phase I/II Study of GSK525762 Combined with Fulvestrant in Patients with Hormone Receptor-positive/HER2-negative Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2024
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  2. MANIFEST: Pelabresib in Combination With Ruxolitinib for Janus Kinase Inhibitor Treatment-Naïve Myelofibrosis.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2023
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  3. BRD4 inhibition mitigates acute and chronic corneal injury following topical nitrogen mustard exposure.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  8. Loop Plasticity Drives Paralog-Specific Recognition in BET ET Domains.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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  9. Epidrugs in cancer: mechanisms, applications, and future direction.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  10. Targeting BRD4-A Promising Therapeutic Option for Glioblastoma?International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  16. Loop Plasticity Drives Paralog-Specific Recognition in BET ET Domains.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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15 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ka Lung CheungDepartment of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States.
Claudia KimDepartment of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States.
Ming-Ming ZhouDepartment of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · US

Funding

Transcriptional Control of Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's DiseaseR01AG072562 · NIA · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI CAI, DONGMING, ZHOU, MING-MING · 2021 to 2025
$4.2M
Mechanism of BET Proteins in Th17 Cell DifferentiationR01AI124465 · NIAID · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI ZHOU, MING-MING · 2016 to 2020
$2.9M
Transcriptional Mechanism of BRD4 in Solid TumorR01CA239165 · NCI · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI ZHOU, MING-MING · 2019 to 2023
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA239165NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI124465NIA NIH HHS R01 AG072562
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The BET (bromodomain and extra-terminal domain) family proteins, consisting of BRD2, BRD3, BRD4, and testis-specific BRDT, are widely acknowledged as major transcriptional regulators in biology. They are characterized by two tandem bromodomains (BDs) that bind to lysine-acetylated histones and transcription factors, recruit transcription factors and coactivators to target gene sites, and activate RNA polymerase II machinery for transcriptional elongation. Pharmacological inhibition of BET proteins with BD inhibitors has been shown as a promising therapeutic strategy for the treatment of many human diseases including cancer and inflammatory disorders. The recent advances in bromodomain protein biology have further uncovered the complex and versatile functions of BET proteins in the regulation of gene expression in chromatin. In this review article, we highlight our current understanding of BET proteins' functions in mediating protein-protein interactions required for chromatin-templated gene transcription and splicing, chromatin remodeling, DNA replication, and DNA damage repair. We further discuss context-dependent activator

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bromodomainbromodomain and extra-terminal domain proteinscancergene transcriptioninhibitors

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