Cytosine methylation is a DNA modification generally associated with transcriptional silencing. Factors that regulate methylation have been linked to human disease, yet how …
Nucleosome positioning varies between cell types. By deep sequencing cell-free DNA (cfDNA), isolated from circulating blood plasma, we generated maps of genome-wide in vivo …
E Heitzer, L Auinger, MR Speicher - Trends in molecular medicine, 2020 - cell.com
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) is evolving into a widely used prognostic and predictive biomarker, particularly in oncology. However, its versatile clinical use precedes a profound …
HS Jang, WJ Shin, JE Lee, JT Do - Genes, 2017 - mdpi.com
DNA methylation is a major epigenetic mark with important roles in genetic regulation. Methylated cytosines are found primarily at CpG dinucleotides, but are also found at non …
PA Jones - Nature reviews genetics, 2012 - nature.com
DNA methylation is frequently described as a'silencing'epigenetic mark, and indeed this function of 5-methylcytosine was originally proposed in the 1970s. Now, thanks to improved …
GL Maor, A Yearim, G Ast - Trends in Genetics, 2015 - cell.com
Although DNA methylation was originally thought to only affect transcription, emerging evidence shows that it also regulates alternative splicing. Exons, and especially splice sites …
Summary N 6-methyldeoxyadenosine (6mA or m 6 A) is a DNA modification preserved in prokaryotes to eukaryotes. It is widespread in bacteria and functions in DNA mismatch …
Nucleosome remodelers of the DDM1/Lsh family are required for DNA methylation of transposable elements, but the reason for this is unknown. How DDM1 interacts with other …
Alternative splicing (AS) of precursor mRNAs (pre-mRNAs) from multiexon genes allows organisms to increase their coding potential and regulate gene expression through multiple …