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Targeting Super-Enhancers for Disease Treatment and Diagnosis
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Shin HY
Mol Cells
2018[Jun]; 41
(6
): 506-514
PMID29754476
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The transcriptional regulation of genes determines the fate of animal cell
differentiation and subsequent organ development. With the recent progress in
genome-wide technologies, the genomic landscapes of enhancers have been broadly
explored in mammalian genomes, which led to the discovery of novel specific
subsets of enhancers, termed super-enhancers. Super-enhancers are large clusters
of enhancers covering the long region of regulatory DNA and are densely occupied
by transcription factors, active histone marks, and co-activators. Accumulating
evidence points to the critical role that super-enhancers play in cell
type-specific development and differentiation, as well as in the development of
various diseases. Here, I provide a comprehensive description of the optimal
approach for identifying functional units of super-enhancers and their unique
chromatin features in normal development and in diseases, including cancers. I
also review the recent updated knowledge on novel approaches of targeting
super-enhancers for the treatment of specific diseases, such as small-molecule
inhibitors and potential gene therapy. This review will provide perspectives on
using super-enhancers as biomarkers to develop novel disease diagnostic tools and
establish new directions in clinical therapeutic strategies.