NNMT and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: For example, mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) and overexpression of nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) enzymes occur in cancers, including HNSCC, promoting cancer progression and chemoresistance, and induce alterations in DNA and histone methylation profiles [31,32,33,34,35,36].