TET1 regulates gene expression and repression of endogenous retroviruses independent of DNA demethylation

P Stolz, AS Mantero, A Tvardovskiy, E Ugur… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract DNA methylation (5-methylcytosine (5mC)) is critical for genome stability and
transcriptional regulation in mammals. The discovery that ten-eleven translocation (TET) …

Covalent PARylation of DNA base excision repair proteins regulates DNA demethylation

SD Schwarz, J Xu, K Gunasekera, D Schürmann… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The intracellular ATP-ribosyltransferases PARP1 and PARP2, contribute to DNA base
excision repair (BER) and DNA demethylation and have been implicated in epigenetic …

Tet enzymes are essential for early embryogenesis and completion of embryonic genome activation

J Arand, HR Chiang, D Martin, MP Snyder, J Sage… - EMBO …, 2022 - embopress.org
Mammalian development begins in transcriptional silence followed by a period of
widespread activation of thousands of genes. DNA methylation reprogramming is integral to …

The complexity of TET2 functions in pluripotency and development

V Garcia-Outeiral, C De la Parte, M Fidalgo… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ten-eleven translocation-2 (TET2) is a crucial driver of cell fate outcomes in a myriad of
biological processes, including embryonic development and tissue homeostasis. TET2 …

Recent evolution of a TET-controlled and DPPA3/STELLA-driven pathway of passive DNA demethylation in mammals

CB Mulholland, A Nishiyama, J Ryan… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genome-wide DNA demethylation is a unique feature of mammalian development and
naïve pluripotent stem cells. Here, we describe a recently evolved pathway in which global …

Comprehensive chromatin proteomics resolves functional phases of pluripotency and identifies changes in regulatory components

E Ugur, A de la Porte, W Qin, S Bultmann… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The establishment of cellular identity is driven by transcriptional and epigenetic regulators of
the chromatin proteome-the chromatome. Comprehensive analyses of the chromatome …

Spectroscopic and in vitro Investigations of Fe2+/α‐Ketoglutarate‐Dependent Enzymes Involved in Nucleic Acid Repair and Modification

D Schmidl, NSW Lindlar né Jonasson, A Menke… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The activation of molecular oxygen for the highly selective functionalization and repair of
DNA and RNA nucleobases is achieved by α‐ketoglutarate (α‐KG)/iron‐dependent …

Small molecule inhibitors of TET dioxygenases: Bobcat339 activity is mediated by contaminating copper (II)

NA Weirath, AK Hurben, C Chao… - ACS Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ten eleven translocation (TET) dioxygenases 1–3 are non-heme Fe (II) and α-ketoglutarate
dependent enzymes that catalyze oxidation of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) in DNA to …

Downregulation of 5‐hydroxymethylcytosine is an early event in pancreatic tumorigenesis

K Fujikura, ZI Alruwaii, MC Haffner… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Epigenetic alterations are increasingly recognized as important contributors to the
development and progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. 5 …

Deformylation of 5‐Formylcytidine in Different Cell Types

E Korytiakova, E Kamińska, M Müller… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Epigenetic programming of cells requires methylation of deoxycytidines (dC) to 5‐methyl‐dC
(mdC) followed by oxidation to 5‐hydroxymethyl‐dC (hmdC), 5‐formyl‐dC (fdC), and 5 …