Cheng Laboratory

Notable Publications

Pappalardi MB, Keenan K, Cockerill M, Kellner WA, Stowell A, Sherk C, Wong K, Pathuri S, Briand J, Steidel M, Chapman P, Groy A, Wiseman AK, McHugh CF, Campobasso N, Graves AP, Fairweather E, Werner T, Raoof A, Butlin RJ, Rueda L, Horton JR, Fosbenner DT, Zhang C, Handler JL, Muliaditan M, Mebrahtu M, Jaworski JP, McNulty DE, Burt C, Eberl HC, Taylor AN, Ho T, Merrihew S, Foley SW, Rutkowska A, Li M, Romeril SP, Goldberg K, Zhang X, Kershaw CS, Bantscheff M, Jurewicz AJ, Minthorn E, Grandi P, Patel M, Benowitz AB, Mohammad HP, Gilmartin AG, Prinjha RK, Ogilvie D, Carpenter C, Heerding D, Baylin SB, Jones PA, Cheng X, King BW, Luengo JI, Jordan AM, Waddell I, Kruger RG, McCabe MT. Discovery of a first-in-class reversible DNMT1-selective inhibitor with improved tolerability and efficacy in acute myeloid leukemia. Nat Cancer. 2021 Oct;2(10):1002-1017.

Zhou J, Horton JR, Blumenthal RM, Zhang X, Cheng X. Clostridioides difficile specific DNA adenine methyltransferase CamA squeezes and flips adenine out of DNA helix. Nat Commun. 2021 Jun 8;12(1):3436.

Zeng Y, Ren R, Kaur G, Hardikar S, Ying Z, Babcock L, Gupta E, Zhang X, Chen T, Cheng X. The inactive Dnmt3b3 isoform preferentially enhances Dnmt3b-mediated DNA methylation. Genes Dev. 2020 Nov 1;34(21-22):1546-1558.

Horton JR, Woodcock CB, Opot SB, Reich NO, Zhang X, Cheng X. The cell cycle-regulated DNA adenine methyltransferase CcrM opens a bubble at its DNA recognition site. Nat Commun. 2019 Oct 10;10(1):4600.

Dai S, Horton JR, Woodcock CB, Wilkinson AW, Zhang X, Gozani O, Cheng X. Structural basis for the target specificity of actin histidine methyltransferase SETD3. Nat Commun. 2019 Aug 6;10(1):3541.