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. 2021 Nov 23;12:784591. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.784591

TABLE 2.

Summary of potential therapeutic targets and the corresponding clinical approved/non-approved drugs.

Category Therapeutic targets PDB-ID Function Clinical/non clinical approved drugs References
Writers P300 5LKU Acetylates histone lysines C646, B026, A-485, B029-2, etc. Lasko et al. (2017), Peng et al. (2019), Yang et al. (2020), Cai et al. (2021)
ASH1 3MQM Methylates histone H3K36 and H3K4 Perugorria et al. (2012)
EZH2 4MI5 Methylates histone H3K27 Tazemetostat; Valemetostat, GSK126, CPI-0209, CPI-1205 Huang et al. (2019), Bates (2020)
SETDB1 3DLM Methylates histone H3K9 Mithramycin, DZNep Rivière et al. (2015), Karanth et al. (2017)
MLL4/KMT2D, SET1A 4Z4P, 4RIQ Methylates histone H3K4 Methyltransferase inhibitor 5′-deoxy-5'-(methylthio)adenosine (MTA) El Mansouri et al. (2011), Kim et al. (2016)
SET7/9 (KMT7) 1N6A Methylates histone lysines MTA, Cyproheptadine, Sinefungin, etc. Gu et al. (2018), Tamura et al. (2018); Sharma et al. (2020)
PRMT1, PRMT5 1OR8, 6UXX Methylates histone arginine EPZ015666, GSK33265 95, GSK591, LLY-283, etc. Zhang et al. (2017), Guccione and Richard (2019)
RNF20/BRE1A 5TRB Ubiquitination of H2B Chen et al. (2021)
Erasers HDAC Deacetylase removes acetyl groups from histone lysines Vorinostat, belinostat, panobinostat, romidepsin; Fimepinostat, KA2507, OKI-179, etc. Rodríguez-Aguilera et al. (2018), Bates (2020)
LSD 1 4XBF Demethylates histone lysines Iadademstat, CC-90011, INCB059872 Alarcon et al. (2016), Bates (2020)
JMJD2B/KDM4D 4UC4 Demethylates histone lysines JIB04, Curcuminoids Kim et al. (2014), Kurozumi et al. (2019), Kim et al. (2020)
Phf2 3PTR Demethylates histone lysines Bricambert et al. (2018)
BAP1 Deubiquitination of H2B He et al. (2019)
Readers BRD4 5EI4/5EGU Bromodomain proteins read acetyl groups on histone lysines Molibresib, Birabresib, ZEN003694, PLX51107 Bates (2020), Gao et al. (2021)