Regulation, functions and transmission of bivalent chromatin during mammalian development

TA Macrae, J Fothergill-Robinson… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Cells differentiate and progress through development guided by a dynamic chromatin
landscape that mediates gene expression programmes. During development, mammalian …

TET-mediated active DNA demethylation: mechanism, function and beyond

X Wu, Y Zhang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
In mammals, DNA methylation in the form of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) can be actively
reversed to unmodified cytosine (C) through TET dioxygenase-mediated oxidation of 5mC to …

Reprogramming to recover youthful epigenetic information and restore vision

Y Lu, B Brommer, X Tian, A Krishnan, M Meer, C Wang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Ageing is a degenerative process that leads to tissue dysfunction and death. A proposed
cause of ageing is the accumulation of epigenetic noise that disrupts gene expression …

Regulation of transposable elements by DNA modifications

Ö Deniz, JM Frost, MR Branco - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Maintenance of genome stability requires control over the expression of transposable
elements (TEs), whose activity can have substantial deleterious effects on the host …

Intragenic DNA methylation prevents spurious transcription initiation

F Neri, S Rapelli, A Krepelova, D Incarnato, C Parlato… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
In mammals, DNA methylation occurs mainly at CpG dinucleotides. Methylation of the
promoter suppresses gene expression, but the functional role of gene-body DNA …

The DNA methylation landscape in cancer

K Skvortsova, C Stirzaker, P Taberlay - Essays in biochemistry, 2019 - portlandpress.com
As one of the most abundant and well-studied epigenetic modifications, DNA methylation
plays an essential role in normal development and cellular biology. Global alterations to the …

The interplay between DNA and histone methylation: molecular mechanisms and disease implications

Y Li, X Chen, C Lu - EMBO reports, 2021 - embopress.org
Methylation of cytosine in CpG dinucleotides and histone lysine and arginine residues is a
chromatin modification that critically contributes to the regulation of genome integrity …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the relationship between DNA methylation and histone lysine methylation

NR Rose, RJ Klose - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene Regulatory …, 2014 - Elsevier
DNA methylation acts as an epigenetic modification in vertebrate DNA. Recently it has
become clear that the DNA and histone lysine methylation systems are highly interrelated …

Regulation of gene transcription by Polycomb proteins

S Aranda, G Mas, L Di Croce - Science advances, 2015 - science.org
The Polycomb group (PcG) of proteins defines a subset of factors that physically associate
and function to maintain the positional identity of cells from the embryo to adult stages. PcG …

New insights into 5hmC DNA modification: generation, distribution and function

DQ Shi, I Ali, J Tang, WC Yang - Frontiers in genetics, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Dynamic DNA modifications, such as methylation/demethylation on cytosine, are major
epigenetic mechanisms to modulate gene expression in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. In …