Liquid biopsy of methylation biomarkers in cell-free DNA

H Luo, W Wei, Z Ye, J Zheng, R Xu - Trends in molecular medicine, 2021 - cell.com
Liquid biopsies, in particular, analysis of cell-free DNA (cfDNA), have emerged as a
promising noninvasive diagnostic approach in oncology. Abnormal distribution of DNA …

DNA methylation methods: Global DNA methylation and methylomic analyses

S Li, TO Tollefsbol - Methods, 2021 - Elsevier
DNA methylation provides a pivotal layer of epigenetic regulation in eukaryotes that has
significant involvement for numerous biological processes in health and disease. The …

TOX reinforces the phenotype and longevity of exhausted T cells in chronic viral infection

F Alfei, K Kanev, M Hofmann, M Wu, HE Ghoneim… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Cytotoxic T cells are essential mediators of protective immunity to viral infection and
malignant tumours and are a key target of immunotherapy approaches. However, prolonged …

Mitochondrial complex III is essential for suppressive function of regulatory T cells

SE Weinberg, BD Singer, EM Steinert, CA Martinez… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Regulatory T cells (Treg cells), a distinct subset of CD4+ T cells, are necessary for the
maintenance of immune self-tolerance and homeostasis,. Recent studies have …

Effector CD8 T cells dedifferentiate into long-lived memory cells

B Youngblood, JS Hale, HT Kissick, E Ahn, X Xu… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Memory CD8 T cells that circulate in the blood and are present in lymphoid organs are an
essential component of long-lived T cell immunity. These memory CD8 T cells remain …

The lung microenvironment shapes a dysfunctional response of alveolar macrophages in aging

AC McQuattie-Pimentel, Z Ren, N Joshi… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Alveolar macrophages orchestrate the response to viral infections. Age-related changes in
these cells may underlie the differential severity of pneumonia in older patients. We …

Expansion of human-specific GGC repeat in neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease-related disorders

Y Tian, JL Wang, W Huang, S Zeng, B Jiao, Z Liu… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) is a slowly progressing neurodegenerative
disease characterized by eosinophilic intranuclear inclusions in the nervous system and …

The DNA methyltransferase DNMT3C protects male germ cells from transposon activity

J Barau, A Teissandier, N Zamudio, S Roy, V Nalesso… - Science, 2016 - science.org
DNA methylation is prevalent in mammalian genomes and plays a central role in the
epigenetic control of development. The mammalian DNA methylation machinery is thought …

Differential methylation analysis for BS-seq data under general experimental design

Y Park, H Wu - Bioinformatics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification with important roles in many
biological processes and diseases. Bisulfite sequencing (BS-seq) has emerged recently as …

[HTML][HTML] Cerebral organoids recapitulate epigenomic signatures of the human fetal brain

C Luo, MA Lancaster, R Castanon, JR Nery… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells recapitulate the early three-
dimensional organization of the human brain, but whether they establish the epigenomic …