The role of histone modifications: from neurodevelopment to neurodiseases

J Park, K Lee, K Kim, SJ Yi - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Epigenetic regulatory mechanisms, including DNA methylation, histone modification,
chromatin remodeling, and microRNA expression, play critical roles in cell differentiation …

Epigenetics and beyond: targeting writers of protein lysine methylation to treat disease

KP Bhat, H Ümit Kaniskan, J Jin… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein lysine methylation is a crucial post-translational modification that regulates the
functions of both histone and non-histone proteins. Deregulation of the enzymes or 'writers' …

A new Bayesian factor analysis method improves detection of genes and biological processes affected by perturbations in single-cell CRISPR screening

Y Zhou, K Luo, L Liang, M Chen, X He - Nature Methods, 2023 - nature.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) screening coupled with
single-cell RNA sequencing has emerged as a powerful tool to characterize the effects of …

Transcriptional linkage analysis with in vivo AAV-Perturb-seq

AJ Santinha, E Klingler, M Kuhn, R Farouni, S Lagler… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The ever-growing compendium of genetic variants associated with human pathologies
demands new methods to study genotype–phenotype relationships in complex tissues in a …

Genetic and epigenetic etiology underlying autism spectrum disorder

SH Yoon, J Choi, WJ Lee, JT Do - Journal of clinical medicine, 2020 - mdpi.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a pervasive neurodevelopmental disorder characterized
by difficulties in social interaction, language development delays, repeated body …

SETD2: from chromatin modifier to multipronged regulator of the genome and beyond

TM Molenaar, F van Leeuwen - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Histone modifying enzymes play critical roles in many key cellular processes and are
appealing proteins for targeting by small molecules in disease. However, while the functions …

H3K36 trimethylation-mediated biological functions in cancer

C Xiao, T Fan, H Tian, Y Zheng, Z Zhou, S Li, C Li… - Clinical …, 2021 - Springer
Histone modification is an important form of epigenetic regulation. Thereinto, histone
methylation is a critical determination of chromatin states, participating in multiple cellular …

SETD5-coordinated chromatin reprogramming regulates adaptive resistance to targeted pancreatic cancer therapy

Z Wang, S Hausmann, R Lyu, TM Li, SM Lofgren… - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Molecular mechanisms underlying adaptive targeted therapy resistance in pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC) are poorly understood. Here, we identify SETD5 as a major driver …

A MYT1L syndrome mouse model recapitulates patient phenotypes and reveals altered brain development due to disrupted neuronal maturation

J Chen, ME Lambo, X Ge, JT Dearborn, Y Liu… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Human genetics have defined a new neurodevelopmental syndrome caused by loss-of-
function mutations in MYT1L, a transcription factor known for enabling fibroblast-to-neuron …

Epigenetic evidence for distinct contributions of resident and acquired myonuclei during long-term exercise adaptation using timed in vivo myonuclear labeling

KA Murach, CM Dungan… - American Journal of …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Muscle fibers are syncytial postmitotic cells that can acquire exogenous nuclei from resident
muscle stem cells, called satellite cells. Myonuclei are added to muscle fibers by satellite …