The emerging role of chromatin remodelers in neurodevelopmental disorders: a developmental perspective

B Mossink, M Negwer, D Schubert… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), including intellectual disability (ID) and autism
spectrum disorders (ASD), are a large group of disorders in which early insults during brain …

Epigenetic regulations in neuropsychiatric disorders

JN Kuehner, EC Bruggeman, Z Wen, B Yao - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Precise genetic and epigenetic spatiotemporal regulation of gene expression is critical for
proper brain development, function and circuitry formation in the mammalian central nervous …

The epigenome in neurodevelopmental disorders

J Reichard, G Zimmer-Bensch - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Neurodevelopmental diseases (NDDs), such as autism spectrum disorders, epilepsy, and
schizophrenia, are characterized by diverse facets of neurological and psychiatric …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into DNMT1 and programmed cell death in diseases

L Yan, Q Geng, Z Cao, B Liu, L Li, P Lu, L Lin… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract DNMT1 (DNA methyltransferase 1) is the predominant member of the DNMT family
and the most abundant DNMT in various cell types. It functions as a maintenance DNMT and …

The p21-activated kinases in neural cytoskeletal remodeling and related neurological disorders

K Zhang, Y Wang, T Fan, C Zeng, ZS Sun - Protein & cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The serine/threonine p21-activated kinases (PAKs), as main effectors of the Rho GTPases
Cdc42 and Rac, represent a group of important molecular switches linking the complex …

DNA methylation signature as a biomarker of major neuropsychiatric disorders

Z Shirvani-Farsani, Z Maloum… - Journal of Psychiatric …, 2021 - Elsevier
DNA methylation is a broadly-investigated epigenetic modification that has been considered
as a heritable and reversible change. Previous findings have indicated that DNA methylation …

Roles of aging, circular RNAs, and RNA editing in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets

T Hosaka, H Tsuji, S Kwak - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an incurable motor neuron disease caused by upper
and lower motor neuron death. Despite advances in our understanding of ALS …

DNA methylation-mediated modulation of endocytosis as potential mechanism for synaptic function regulation in murine inhibitory cortical interneurons

D Pensold, J Reichard, KMJ Van Loo… - Cerebral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The balance of excitation and inhibition is essential for cortical information processing,
relying on the tight orchestration of the underlying subcellular processes. Dynamic …

The emerging roles of heterochromatin in cell migration

G Gerlitz - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cell migration is a key process in health and disease. In the last decade an increasing
attention is given to chromatin organization in migrating cells. In various types of cells …

DNMT1 modulates interneuron morphology by regulating Pak6 expression through crosstalk with histone modifications

J Symmank, C Bayer, C Schmidt, A Hahn, D Pensold… - Epigenetics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation, including DNA methylation and histone
modifications, call increasing attention in the context of development and human health …