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ReviewFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2021

Collateral Victim or Rescue Worker?-The Role of Histone Methyltransferases in DNA Damage Repair and Their Targeting for Therapeutic Opportunities in Cancer.

Lishu He, Gwen Lomberk

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Review in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 50% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lishu HeDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States.
Gwen LomberkDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States.
Medical College of Wisconsin · US

Funding

ZINC FINGER GENES AND PANCREATIC CELL GROWTHR01DK052913 · NIDDK · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN · PI LOMBERK, GWEN, URRUTIA, RAUL A. · 1998 to 2023
$7.0M
Targeting Epigenomic Regulators at the Replication Fork in PDACR01CA247898 · NCI · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN · PI LOMBERK, GWEN · 2021 to 2025
$2.3M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA247898NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK052913
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disrupted DNA damage signaling greatly threatens cell integrity and plays significant roles in cancer. With recent advances in understanding the human genome and gene regulation in the context of DNA damage, chromatin biology, specifically biology of histone post-translational modifications (PTMs), has emerged as a popular field of study with great promise for cancer therapeutics. Here, we discuss how key histone methylation pathways contribute to DNA damage repair and impact tumorigenesis within this context, as well as the potential for their targeting as part of therapeutic strategies in cancer.

Indexed as

cancer epigeneticschromatinDNA damage repair (DDR)epigenetic drugshistone methyltransferases

Identifiers

PMID34869318
PMCPMC8636273
OpenAlexW3214413582

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