TCHH and acute promyelocytic leukemia: In addition to the inhibition of PML-RARα oncogenic fusion protein, our previous study in NB4 human acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) cells also uncovered the effect of THL on repressing DNMT1 (DNA methyltransferase 1) protein [5], which is often abnormally upregulated in cancer cells resulting in the suppression of tumor suppressor genes by hypermethylation [6].