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ReviewBiomolecules2025

Rewriting the Fate of Cancer: Epigenetic and Epitranscriptomic Regulators in the Metastatic Cascade.

Toshifumi Hara, Murugan Subramanian

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Review in Biomolecules, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. m6A modification and its clinical applications in gynaecological cancer.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Toshifumi HaraLaboratory of Biochemistry, School of Pharmacy, Aichi Gakuin University, Nagoya 464-8650, Japan.
Murugan SubramanianDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8994-9252

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metastasis is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality, representing a highly coordinated, multistep process in which malignant cells gain the ability to invade, survive in the circulation, and establish secondary tumors at distant sites. While genetic mutations initiate oncogenesis, accumulating evidence shows that epigenetic and epitranscriptomic regulators, encompassing DNA methylation, RNA modifications, and noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs), reshape metastatic phenotypes. This review integrates current insights into these mechanisms and their crosstalk, with a primary focus on their methylation modification. Given their plasticity and potential reversibility, these regulators are attractive targets for therapeutic intervention. Defining the dynamic interplay between DNA and RNA modifications and ncRNAs provides a coherent framework for controlling metastasis and guides the development of precision epigenetic strategies and biomarkers. Future research that integrates multi-omics approaches and spatial transcriptomics will be essential for revealing the epigenetic and epitranscriptomic layers of the metastatic landscape.

Indexed as

Epigenesis, GeneticNeoplasmsTranscriptomeAnimalsDNA MethylationGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansNeoplasm MetastasisRNA, UntranslatedRNA, Untranslated5hmC5mCepigeneticsepitranscriptomelncRNAm5Cm6AmetastasismiRNAncRNA

Identifiers

PMID41301491
PMCPMC12649845

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