期刊
WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY
卷 27, 期 36, 页码 6004-6024出版社
BAISHIDENG PUBLISHING GROUP INC
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i36.6004
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Pancreatic cancer; Epigenetics; Histone modification; Methylation; Demethylation; Clinical application
In pancreatic cancer research, histone methylation plays a crucial role, with writers and erasers potentially serving as therapeutic targets, while further research on reader domains is needed.
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is an aggressive human cancer. Appropriate methods for the diagnosis and treatment of PC have not been found at the genetic level, thus making epigenetics a promising research path in studies of PC. Histone methylation is one of the most complicated types of epigenetic modifications and has proved crucial in the development of PC. Histone methylation is a reversible process regulated by readers, writers, and erasers. Some writers and erasers can be recognized as potential biomarkers and candidate therapeutic targets in PC because of their unusual expression in PC cells compared with normal pancreatic cells. Based on the impact that writers have on the development of PC, some inhibitors of writers have been developed. However, few inhibitors of erasers have been developed and put to clinical use. Meanwhile, there is not enough research on the reader domains. Therefore, the study of erasers and readers is still a promising area. This review focuses on the regulatory mechanism of histone methylation, and the diagnosis and chemotherapy of PC based on it. The future of epigenetic modification in PC research is also discussed.
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