Overview of histone modification

Y Zhang, Z Sun, J Jia, T Du, N Zhang, Y Tang… - Histone Mutations and …, 2021 - Springer
Epigenetics is the epi-information beyond the DNA sequence that can be inherited from
parents to offspring. From years of studies, people have found that histone modifications …

The bivalent genome: characterization, structure, and regulation

E Blanco, M González-Ramírez, A Alcaine-Colet… - Trends in Genetics, 2020 - cell.com
An intricate molecular machinery is at the core of gene expression regulation in every cell.
During the initial stages of organismal development, the coordinated activation of diverse …

[HTML][HTML] The International Human Epigenome Consortium: a blueprint for scientific collaboration and discovery

HG Stunnenberg, S Abrignani, D Adams, M de Almeida… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC) coordinates the generation of a
catalog of high-resolution reference epigenomes of major primary human cell types. The …

Promoter bivalency favors an open chromatin architecture in embryonic stem cells

G Mas, E Blanco, C Ballaré, M Sansó, YG Spill, D Hu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
In embryonic stem cells (ESCs), developmental gene promoters are characterized by their
bivalent chromatin state, with simultaneous modification by MLL2 and Polycomb complexes …

Cold stress induces enhanced chromatin accessibility and bivalent histone modifications H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 of active genes in potato

Z Zeng, W Zhang, AP Marand, B Zhu, CR Buell, J Jiang - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Background Cold stress can greatly affect plant growth and development. Plants have
developed special systems to respond to and tolerate cold stress. While plant scientists have …

Examining the roles of H3K4 methylation states with systematically characterized antibodies

RN Shah, AT Grzybowski, EM Cornett, AL Johnstone… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) are important genomic regulators often
studied by chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), whereby their locations and relative …

Epigenetic basis of lead-induced neurological disorders

T Wang, J Zhang, Y Xu - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Environmental lead (Pb) exposure is closely associated with pathogenesis of a range of
neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) …

Two contrasting classes of nucleolus-associated domains in mouse fibroblast heterochromatin

A Vertii, J Ou, J Yu, A Yan, H Pagès, H Liu… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
In interphase eukaryotic cells, almost all heterochromatin is located adjacent to the
nucleolus or to the nuclear lamina, thus defining nucleolus-associated domains (NADs) and …

Epigenomic profiling of human CD4+ T cells supports a linear differentiation model and highlights molecular regulators of memory development

P Durek, K Nordström, G Gasparoni, A Salhab… - Immunity, 2016 - cell.com
The impact of epigenetics on the differentiation of memory T (Tmem) cells is poorly defined.
We generated deep epigenomes comprising genome-wide profiles of DNA methylation …

Annotation of chromatin states in 66 complete mouse epigenomes during development

A van der Velde, K Fan, J Tsuji, JE Moore… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
The morphologically and functionally distinct cell types of a multicellular organism are
maintained by their unique epigenomes and gene expression programs. Phase III of the …