Modulating Epigenetic Modification Enzymes Through Relevant Epidrugs as a Timely Strategy in Anticancer Therapy
Epigenetic mechanisms play a critical role in governing DNA-templated processes such as transcription. These mechanisms involve modifications on nucleosomal histones and the overlying DNA (Gibney and Nolan 2010). Though histone substrates undergo a variet
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Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors in Combinatorial Anticancer Therapy
Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors in Combinatorial Anticancer Therapy
Shabir Ahmad Ganai
Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors in Combinatorial Anticancer Therapy
Shabir Ahmad Ganai Sopore (Wadura), Jammu and Kashmir, India
ISBN 978-981-15-8178-6 ISBN 978-981-15-8179-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8179-3
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I dedicate this book to my wife Fatima Akhter, to my son Mohammad Faiq Ganai, and to my daughter Hafizah Shabir. While the writing of this book was ongoing, I was not able to give them company.
Foreword
Apart from the recent novel developments in cancer therapy such as immune checkpoint inhibitors or targeted agents focusing on altered cancer signaling pathways, the important role of epigenetic changes for tumorigenesis and tumor development as well as the potential of targeting these epigenetic changes as an alternative antineoplastic approach is increasingly accepted. In this context, the term epigenetics does not only refer to concepts that can explain how very different cellular phenotypes can arise without changes in the sequence or amount of inherited DNA, paradigmatic for the development of an organism but also to mechanisms in the cell nucleus that establish stable states of gene expression. Though it is increasingly well understood how mechanisms interact with each other to produce complex phenomena such as cell differentiation, gene dose compensation, or genomic imprinting, the question of how epigenetic changes interact in the development of malignant diseases and how we can target the
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