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. 2021 Sep 29;12:728250. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.728250

TABLE 4.

In vitro and in vivo studies on the impact of nanoparticles on histone modification.

Nanoparticles Experiment model Epigenetic effects References
ZnO-NPs Human bladder cancer T24 cells Decrease of global histone 3 lysine 27 trimethylation (H3K27me3) at the RUNX3 gene promoter Zhang et al. (2020)
CuO-NPs Human A549 cells Decrease of total HDAC activity Kalaiarasi et al. (2017)
Reduction in the levels of HDAC1, HDAC2, HDAC3, HDAC5, HDAC9, and HDAC11 mRNA transcripts
Ag-NPs Human A549, MCF7, and HaCat cells Increase in histone 3 serine 10 phosphorylation (H3S10ph Zhao et al. (2017)
As2O3-NPs Human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293T Decrease in global H4K16ac Liu et al. (2015)
Au-NPs Small airway epithelial cells Decrease in H3K27me3 Shyamasundar et al. (2015)
TiO2-NPs Human adipose delivered stem cells (hASCs) Increase of H3K4 methylation at the promoter region of osteogenic genes RUNX2 and osteocalcin (OC) Lv et al. (2015)
Inhibition of histone demethylate
RBP2 expression
SiO2-NPs Human A549 cells Decreased levels of SIRT6 histone deacetylase (HDAC) transcript and protein Zhang et al. (2018)