Interplay between chromatin marks in development and disease

SM Janssen, MC Lorincz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation (DNAme) and histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) have
important roles in transcriptional regulation. Although many reports have characterized the …

DNA methylation pathways and their crosstalk with histone methylation

J Du, LM Johnson, SE Jacobsen… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
Methylation of DNA and of histone 3 at Lys 9 (H3K9) are highly correlated with gene
silencing in eukaryotes from fungi to humans. Both of these epigenetic marks need to be …

Intrinsic retroviral reactivation in human preimplantation embryos and pluripotent cells

EJ Grow, RA Flynn, SL Chavez, NL Bayless… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are remnants of ancient retroviral infections, and comprise
nearly 8% of the human genome. The most recently acquired human ERV is HERVK (HML …

Genomic profiling of DNA methyltransferases reveals a role for DNMT3B in genic methylation

T Baubec, DF Colombo, C Wirbelauer, J Schmidt… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification associated with transcriptional repression of
promoters and is essential for mammalian development. Establishment of DNA methylation …

DNA methyltransferases and their roles in tumorigenesis

W Zhang, J Xu - Biomarker research, 2017 - Springer
DNA methylation plays an important role in gene expression, chromatin stability, and genetic
imprinting. In mammals, DNA methylation patterns are written and regulated by DNA …

Epigenetic regulatory functions of DNA modifications: 5-methylcytosine and beyond

A Breiling, F Lyko - Epigenetics & chromatin, 2015 - Springer
The chemical modification of DNA bases plays a key role in epigenetic gene regulation.
While much attention has been focused on the classical epigenetic mark, 5-methylcytosine …

Mutations in regulators of the epigenome and their connections to global chromatin patterns in cancer

C Plass, SM Pfister, AM Lindroth, O Bogatyrova… - Nature reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Malignancies are characterized by extensive global reprogramming of epigenetic patterns,
including gains or losses in DNA methylation and changes to histone marks. Furthermore …

H19 lncRNA alters DNA methylation genome wide by regulating S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase

J Zhou, L Yang, T Zhong, M Mueller, Y Men… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
DNA methylation is essential for mammalian development and physiology. Here we report
that the developmentally regulated H19 lncRNA binds to and inhibits S …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressor genes: Paradigms, puzzles, and potential

A Kazanets, T Shorstova, K Hilmi, M Marques… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cancer constitutes a set of diseases with heterogeneous molecular pathologies. However,
there are a number of universal aberrations common to all cancers, one of these being the …

Differential DNA methylation with age displays both common and dynamic features across human tissues that are influenced by CpG landscape

K Day, LL Waite, A Thalacker-Mercer, A West… - Genome biology, 2013 - Springer
Background DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification that changes with age in human
tissues, although the mechanisms and specificity of this process are still poorly understood …