Single-cell epigenomics: Recording the past and predicting the future

G Kelsey, O Stegle, W Reik - Science, 2017 - science.org
Single-cell multi-omics has recently emerged as a powerful technology by which different
layers of genomic output—and hence cell identity and function—can be recorded …

Non-coding RNAs as direct and indirect modulators of epigenetic regulation

VJ Peschansky, C Wahlestedt - Epigenetics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Epigenetic regulation of gene expression is an increasingly well-understood concept that
explains much of the contribution of an organism's environment and experience to its …

Active and passive demethylation of male and female pronuclear DNA in the mammalian zygote

F Guo, X Li, D Liang, T Li, P Zhu, H Guo, X Wu, L Wen… - Cell stem cell, 2014 - cell.com
The epigenomes of mammalian sperm and oocytes, characterized by gamete-specific 5-
methylcytosine (5mC) patterns, are reprogrammed during early embryogenesis to establish …

DNA hypomethylation in cancer cells

M Ehrlich - Epigenomics, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
DNA hypomethylation was the initial epigenetic abnormality recognized in human tumors.
However, for several decades after its independent discovery by two laboratories in 1983, it …

Perceptions of epigenetics.

A Bird - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Geneticists study the gene; however, for epigeneticists, there is no obvious' epigene'.
Nevertheless, during the past year, more than 2,500 articles, numerous scientific meetings …

[HTML][HTML] Autoantigen-specific CD4+ T cells acquire an exhausted phenotype and persist in human antigen-specific autoimmune diseases

C Saggau, P Bacher, D Esser, M Rasa, S Meise… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Pro-inflammatory autoantigen-specific CD4+ T helper (auto-Th) cells are central
orchestrators of autoimmune diseases (AIDs). We aimed to characterize these cells in …

Structure and function of mammalian DNA methyltransferases

RZ Jurkowska, TP Jurkowski, A Jeltsch - Chembiochem, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
DNA methylation plays an important role in epigenetic signalling, having an impact on gene
regulation, chromatin structure, development and disease. Here, we review the structures …

[HTML][HTML] Dual binding of chromomethylase domains to H3K9me2-containing nucleosomes directs DNA methylation in plants

J Du, X Zhong, YV Bernatavichute, H Stroud, S Feng… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
DNA methylation and histone modification exert epigenetic control over gene expression.
CHG methylation by CHROMOMETHYLASE3 (CMT3) depends on histone H3K9 …

Rethinking how DNA methylation patterns are maintained

PA Jones, G Liang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2009 - nature.com
DNA methylation patterns are set up early in mammalian development and are then copied
during the division of somatic cells. A long-established model for the maintenance of these …

Genome instability and aging

J Vijg, Y Suh - Annual review of physiology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Genome instability has long been implicated as the main causal factor in aging. Somatic
cells are continuously exposed to various sources of DNA damage, from reactive oxygen …