Chromatin remodelers in the 3D nuclear compartment

M Magaña-Acosta, V Valadez-Graham - Frontiers in Genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Chromatin remodeling complexes (CRCs) use ATP hydrolysis to maintain correct
expression profiles, chromatin stability, and inherited epigenetic states. More than 20 CRCs …

Genome-wide estrogen receptor activity in breast cancer

AM Farcas, S Nagarajan, S Cosulich, JS Carroll - Endocrinology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The largest subtype of breast cancer is characterized by the expression and activity of the
estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha/ER). Although several effective therapies have …

Diverse epigenetic regulations of macrophages in atherosclerosis

H Yang, Y Sun, Q Li, F Jin, Y Dai - Frontiers in Cardiovascular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Emerging research on epigenetics has resulted in many novel discoveries in atherosclerosis
(AS), an inflammaging-associated disease characterized by chronic inflammation primarily …

The emerging role of chromatin remodeling complexes in ovarian cancer

I Vaicekauskaitė, R Sabaliauskaitė, JR Lazutka… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ovarian cancer (OC) is the fifth leading cause of women's death from cancers. The high
mortality rate is attributed to the late presence of the disease and the lack of modern …

Epigenetics of cognition and behavior: insights from Mendelian disorders of epigenetic machinery

R Ng, A Kalinousky, J Harris - Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2023 - Springer
Epigenetics, one mechanism by which gene expression can change without any changes to
the DNA sequence, was described nearly a century ago. However, the importance of …

CTCF-dependent chromatin boundaries formed by asymmetric nucleosome arrays with decreased linker length

CT Clarkson, EA Deeks, R Samarista… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) organises the genome in 3D through DNA loops and in
1D by setting boundaries isolating different chromatin states, but these processes are not …

CHD4 is essential for transcriptional repression and lineage progression in B lymphopoiesis

T Arends, C Dege, A Bortnick… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Cell lineage specification is a tightly regulated process that is dependent on appropriate
expression of lineage and developmental stage-specific transcriptional programs. Here, we …

Long non-coding RNAs: the tentacles of chromatin remodeler complexes

B Neve, N Jonckheere, A Vincent… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Chromatin remodeler complexes regulate gene transcription, DNA replication and DNA
repair by changing both nucleosome position and post-translational modifications. The …

The role of epigenetics in the reproductive toxicity of environmental endocrine disruptors

Y Shi, W Qi, Q Xu, Z Wang, X Cao… - Environmental and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental endocrine disruptors (EEDs) seriously endanger human health by interfering
with the normal function of reproductive systems. In males, EEDs can affect sperm formation …

Comprehensive methylome sequencing reveals prognostic epigenetic biomarkers for prostate cancer mortality

R Pidsley, D Lam, W Qu, TJ Peters… - Clinical and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Prostate cancer is a clinically heterogeneous disease with a subset of patients
rapidly progressing to lethal‐metastatic prostate cancer. Current clinicopathological …