Regulatory T cell dysfunction in type 1 diabetes: what's broken and how can we fix it?

CM Hull, M Peakman, TIM Tree - Diabetologia, 2017 - Springer
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease characterised by the destruction of insulin
producing beta cells in the pancreas. Whilst it remains unclear what the original triggering …

Retrospective and perspective of plant epigenetics in China

CG Duan, JK Zhu, X Cao - Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 2018 - Elsevier
Epigenetics refers to the study of heritable changes in gene function that do not involve
changes in the DNA sequence. Such effects on cellular and physiological phenotypic traits …

ATX3, ATX4, and ATX5 Encode Putative H3K4 Methyltransferases and Are Critical for Plant Development

LQ Chen, JH Luo, ZH Cui, M Xue, L Wang… - Plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Methylation of Lys residues in the tail of the H3 histone is a key regulator of chromatin state
and gene expression, conferred by a large family of enzymes containing an evolutionarily …

Altered chromatin compaction and histone methylation drive non-additive gene expression in an interspecific Arabidopsis hybrid

W Zhu, B Hu, C Becker, ES Doğan, KW Berendzen… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Background The merging of two diverged genomes can result in hybrid offspring that
phenotypically differ greatly from both parents. In plants, interspecific hybridization plays …

Genome‐wide occupancy of histone H3K27 methyltransferases CURLY LEAF and SWINGER in Arabidopsis seedlings

J Shu, C Chen, RK Thapa, S Bian, V Nguyen, K Yu… - Plant …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Polycomb Group (PcG) proteins form two protein complexes, PcG Repressive
Complex 1 (PRC 1) and PRC 2, which are key epigenetic regulators in eukaryotes. PRC 2 …

DNA methylation repatterning accompanying hybridization, whole genome doubling and homoeolog exchange in nascent segmental rice allotetraploids

N Li, C Xu, A Zhang, R Lv, X Meng, X Lin… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Allopolyploidization, which entails interspecific hybridization and whole genome duplication
(WGD), is associated with emergent genetic and epigenetic instabilities that are thought to …

The role of transcriptional regulation in hybrid vigor

R Botet, JJB Keurentjes - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The genetic basis of hybrid vigor in plants remains largely unsolved but strong evidence
suggests that variation in transcriptional regulation can explain many aspects of this …

CURLY LEAF regulates microRNA activity by controlling ARGONAUTE 1 degradation in plants

DA Ré, DA Cambiagno, AL Arce, AH Tomassi… - Molecular Plant, 2020 - cell.com
Abstract CURLY LEAF (CLF) encodes the methyltransferase subunit of the Polycomb
Repressor Complex 2 (PRC2), which regulates the expression of target genes through …

Transcriptome-Wide Analysis of RNA m6A Methylation and Gene Expression Changes Among Two Arabidopsis Ecotypes and Their Reciprocal Hybrids

Z Xu, X Shi, M Bao, X Song, Y Zhang, H Wang… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The remodeling of transcriptome, epigenome, proteome, and metabolome in hybrids plays
an important role in heterosis. N (6)-methyladenosine (m6A) methylation is the most …

Cis‐regulated alternative splicing divergence and its potential contribution to environmental responses in Arabidopsis

X Wang, M Yang, D Ren, W Terzaghi… - The Plant …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Alternative splicing (AS) plays key roles in plant development and the responses of plants to
environmental changes. However, the mechanisms underlying AS divergence (differential …