Monday, November 4, 2013

Digging deeper ! Chromatin remodeling

As we are progressing  deeper into our understanding of disease pathophysiology, we are discovering that some of the cancers are caused or exacerbated by abnormalities of cyclin pathways (Triple negative breast cancers).  There are disturbances at Cyclins and Hormone Receptors at the membranes.  But deeper into the cells, there is disturbance at the Histones (epigenetic zone) where modulation is needed for transcriptions factors to be formed and unleashed.  Here, the dance is governed by the PRBM1, BAFs, PBAF, BRDs, RSC, ARIDs and SWI/SNF (Chromatin remodeling).  This is where BRAC-1 also plays its main function. Indeed some of the Adaptors or cofactor fail the BRCA-1 to continue to repair DNAs!  And some cytokines fail here!  we are working deeper!

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