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Targeting the acetylation signaling pathway in cancer therapy

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Dang, Fabin, Wei, Wenyi·2022·Seminars in Cancer Biology

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Acetylation represents one of the major post-translational protein modifications, which introduces an acetyl functional group into amino acids such as the lysine residue to yield an acetate ester bond, neutralizing its positive charge. Regulation of protein functions by acetylation occurs in multiple ways, such as affecting protein stability, activity, localization, and interaction with other proteins or DNA. It has been well documented that the recruitment of histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs) to the transcriptional machinery can modulate histone acetylation status, which is directly involved in the dynamic regulation of genes controlling cell proliferation and division. Dysregulation of gene expression is involved in tumorigenesis and aberrant activation of histone deacetylases has been reported in several types of cancer. Moreover, there is growing body of evidence showing that acetylation is widely involved in non-histone proteins to impact their roles in various cellular processes including tumorigenesis. As such, small molecular compounds inhibiting HAT or HDAC enzymatic activities have been developed and investigated for therapeutic purpose. Here we review the recent progress in our understanding of protein acetylation and discuss the therapeutic potential of targeting the acetylation signaling pathway in cancer.

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  • KATs and KDACs are often dysregulated in cancer.

    “KATs/KDACs are often dysregulated in disease contexts, including cancer [5,6,9]”

    From Acetylation: a new target for protein degradation in cancer (2025) · cites this paper as [5]

    The section on therapeutic potential explicitly says that HDACs (KDACs) are often dysregulated in tumors. The paper discusses HATs (KATs) as cancer-therapy targets, but the passages found do not establish that KATs themselves are often dysregulated in cancer. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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Authors
Dang, F., & Wei, W.
Affiliations
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
Wei, Wenyi
Venue
Seminars in Cancer Biology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2022-10
Volume
85
Pages
209-218
ISSN
1044-579X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3133766777
Cited by
109
References
154
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 6
FWCI
1.36
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Seminars in Cancer Biology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institutes of Health (R01CA177910)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Cancer-related gene regulation
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Keywords
protein acetylation, histone acetyltransferase, histone deacetylase, non-histone protein acetylation, post-translational modification, lysine acetylation, histone acetylation, transcriptional regulation, carcinogenesis, histone deacetylase inhibitors, cancer therapy
MeSH terms
Acetylation, Histone Deacetylases, Humans, Neoplasms, Protein Processing, Post-Translational, Proteins, Signal Transduction, Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors, Carcinogenesis

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