Abstract:
The present invention features a method for determining the methyltransferase activity of a polypeptide and screening for modulators of methyltransferase activity, more particularly for modulators of the methylation of retinoblastoma by SMYD3. The invention further provides a method or pharmaceutical composition for prevention or treating of colorectal cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, bladder cancer and/or breast cancer using a modulator so identified.
Abstract:
In some embodiments, methods of detecting an association between a query protein and a target moiety are described. In some embodiments, compositions are described. In some embodiments, kits are described.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to bifunctional compounds, which find utility as modulators of enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (target protein). In particular, the present disclosure is directed to bifunctional compounds, which contain on one end a Von Hippel-Lindau, cereblon, Inhibitors of Apotosis Proteins or mouse double-minute homolog 2 ligand which binds to the respective E3 ubiquitin ligase and on the other end a moiety which binds the target protein, such that the target protein is placed in proximity to the ubiquitin ligase to effect degradation (and inhibition) of target protein. The present disclosure exhibits a broad range of pharmacological activities associated with degradation/inhibition of target protein. Diseases or disorders that result from aggregation or accumulation of the target protein are treated or prevented with compounds and compositions of the present disclosure.
Abstract:
In some embodiments, methods of detecting an association between a query protein and a target moiety are described. In some embodiments, compositions are described. In some embodiments, kits are described.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to site-specific disrupting agents for modulating, e.g., decreasing, expression of a target plurality of genes in a cell. In some embodiments, the target plurality of genes comprises pro-inflammatory genes, e.g., CXCL1, CXCL2, CXCL3, CXCL4, CXCL5, CXCL6, CXCL7, and IL-8. In some embodiments, the method comprises using a first site-specific disrupting agent that targets a first anchor sequence and a second site-specific disrupting agents that disrupts a second anchor sequence.
Abstract:
Provided herein are compositions and methods related to the production and detection of a histone H1.0 protein dimethylated at lysine residue 180 (K180) (H1.0K180me2 protein) or a histone H1.0 peptide dimethylated at a lysine residue corresponding to K180 (H1.0K180me2 peptides). The H1.0K180me2 protein and H1.0K180me2 peptides are useful for applications including, but not limited to, molecular diagnostics of DNA damage, genotoxic stress, radiation exposure, and Alzheimer's disease, therapeutics, monitoring of therapeutic regimens, patient stratification, and drug screening. Also provided herein are antibodies specific for the H1.0K180me2 protein and H1.0K180me2 peptides.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to methods and compositions for reactivating a silenced FMR1 gene. In some aspects, methods described by the disclosure are useful for treating a FMR1-inactivation-associated disorder (e.g., fragile X syndrome).
Abstract:
The present invention provides methods and compostions to improve the efficiency of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) and the consequent production of nuclear transfer ESC (ntESC) and transgenic cells and/or non-human animals. More specifically, the present invention relates to the discovery that trimethylation of Histone H3-Lysine 9 (H3K9me3) in reprogramming resistant regions (RRRs) in the nuclear genetic material of donor somatic cells prevents efficient somatic cell nuclear reprogramming or SCNT. The present invention provide methods and compositions to decrease H3K9me3 in methods to improve efficacy of SCNT by exogenous or overexpression of the demethylase Kdm4 family and/or inhibiting methylation of H3K9me3 by inhibiting the histone methyltransferases Suv39h1 and/or Suv39h2.
Abstract:
Disclosed are nanoparticles for the delivery of a therapeutic agent or a diagnostic agent to a subject that include a chitosan and a polyphosphate, wherein the weight ratio of the chitosan to the polyphosphate is about 1.0 or greater and the weight ratio of the polyphosphate to the therapeutic agent or diagnostic agent is about 15.0 or less. Also disclosed are nanoparticles that include a chitosan and an inhibitor of enhancer of Zeste homologue 2 (EZH2). Methods of delivering a therapeutic agent or a diagnostic agent to a subject for the treatment or prevention of a disease and methods of predicting prognosis of ovarian cancer in a subject that involve determining the expression and/or function of EZH2 in the subject are also disclosed.