gene-targeted DNA methylation: towards long-lasting reprogramming of gene expression?

FM Cortés-Mancera, F Sarno, D Goubert… - … -Role and Function, 2022 - Springer
DNA methylation is an essential epigenetic mark, strongly associated with gene expression
regulation. Aberrant DNA methylation patterns underlie various diseases and efforts to …

Increasing specificity of targeted DNA methylation editing by non-enzymatic CRISPR/dCas9-based steric hindrance

DM Sapozhnikov, M Szyf - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
As advances in genome engineering inch the technology towards wider clinical use—
slowed by technical and ethical hurdles—a newer offshoot, termed “epigenome …

Enzymatic Fluoromethylation Enabled by the S-Adenosylmethionine Analog Te-Adenosyl-L-(fluoromethyl)homotellurocysteine

SS Neti, B Wang, DF Iwig, EL Onderko… - ACS Central …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Fluoromethyl, difluoromethyl, and trifluoromethyl groups are present in numerous
pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, where they play critical roles in the efficacy and …

Microbial Synthetic Epigenetic Tools Design and Applications

I Komera, X Chen, L Liu, C Gao - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2024 - ACS Publications
Microbial synthetic epigenetics offers significant opportunities for the design of synthetic
biology tools by leveraging reversible gene control mechanisms without altering DNA …

Membrane damage by MBP-1 is mediated by pore formation and amplified by mtDNA

L Gigon, P Müller, B Haenni, I Iacovache, M Barbo… - Cell reports, 2024 - cell.com
Eosinophils play a crucial role in host defense while also contributing to immunopathology
through the release of inflammatory mediators. Characterized by distinctive cytoplasmic …

Conversion of the CG specific M. MpeI DNA methyltransferase into an enzyme predominantly methylating CCA and CCC sites

P Albert, B Varga, G Ferenc, A Kiss - Nucleic Acids Research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We used structure guided mutagenesis and directed enzyme evolution to alter the specificity
of the CG specific bacterial DNA (cytosine-5) methyltransferase M. MpeI. Methylation …

Genome wide inherited modifications of the tomato epigenome by trans-activated bacterial CG methyltransferase

BKP Kumar, S Beaubiat, CB Yadav, R Eshed… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Background Epigenetic variation is mediated by epigenetic marks such as DNA methylation
occurring in all cytosine contexts in plants. CG methylation plays a critical role in silencing …

DNA methylases for site-selective inhibition of type IIS restriction enzyme activity

CN Flores-Fernández, D Lin, K Robins… - Applied Microbiology …, 2024 - Springer
DNA methylases of the restriction-modifications (RM) systems are promising enzymes for the
development of novel molecular and synthetic biology tools. Their use in vitro enables the …

Designing Epigenome Editors: Considerations of Biochemical and Locus Specificities

ZB Yagci, GR Kelkar, TJ Johnson, D Sen… - … Editing: Methods and …, 2024 - Springer
The advent of locus-specific protein recruitment technologies has enabled a new class of
studies in chromatin biology. Epigenome editors (EEs) enable biochemical modifications of …

Szekvenciaspecifikus DNS-Fehérje Kölcsönhatások Vizsgálatáraalkalmas Módszerek Kidolgozása Escherichia Coliban

N Zsibrita - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Kidolgoztunk egy egyszerű módszert, amellyel a szekvencaspecifikus DNS-fehérje
kölcsönhatás vizsgálható in vivo, Escherichia coliban. Az I-Block-nak nevezett módszer a …