The roles of human DNA methyltransferases and their isoforms in shaping the epigenome

H Gujar, DJ Weisenberger, G Liang - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
… Among the various forms of epigenetic modifications, DNA methylation at the C-5 position of
… of the most well studied epigenetic modifications. DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) are a …

Role of mammalian DNA methyltransferases in development

Z Chen, Y Zhang - Annual review of biochemistry, 2020 - annualreviews.org
… The development of low-input technologies charting histone modifications and base-resolution
DNA methylation has unveiled the hidden rules of epigenetic reprogramming during …

Overview of histone modification

Y Zhang, Z Sun, J Jia, T Du, N Zhang, Y Tang… - Histone Mutations and …, 2021 - Springer
… In addition, H3K36me3 recruits DNA methyltransferase 3A (DNMT3A) to methylate DNA,
which is a redundant pathway to inhibit spurious transcription initiation [55]. H3K36me2 is …

Interactions between core histone marks and DNA methyltransferases predict DNA methylation patterns observed in human cells and tissues

K Fu, G Bonora, M Pellegrini - Epigenetics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… To systematically evaluate the quantitative relationship between histone modifications and
DNA methylation, we used datasets from the Roadmap Epigenomics Project of 35 human …

Mechanisms of histone modifications

L Vanzan, A Sklias, M Boskovic, Z Herceg, R Murr… - Handbook of …, 2023 - Elsevier
… Moreover, recognition by the maintenance DNA methyltransferase DNMT1 of H4K20me3
(via … The first H3K9-specific histone methyltransferases identified were the SUV(var)39 family …

Natural products impacting DNA methyltransferases and histone deacetylases

SH Akone, F Ntie-Kang, F Stuhldreier… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… Therefore, the reversible nature of epigenetic modifications … that inhibit DNA methyltransferases
(DNMTs) and histone … -drugs targeting epigenetic modifications. However, most of …

Regulation of transposable elements by DNA modifications

Ö Deniz, JM Frost, MR Branco - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
… the deposition of repressive epigenetic modifications at TE loci. … methyltransferases to confer
repressive DNA and chromatin … to the evolution of DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) enzymes, …

Histone post-translational modifications—cause and consequence of genome function

G Millán-Zambrano, A Burton, AJ Bannister… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
… Nowadays, we appreciate that most, if not all, histone modifications are at … DNA
methyltransferases to chromatin, H3K4me3 might protect these genomic regions from inappropriate …

Conserved DNA methyltransferases: a window into fundamental mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in bacteria

PH Oliveira, G Fang - Trends in microbiology, 2021 - cell.com
… In this opinion article, we propose that highly conserved DNA methyltransferases (MTases)
represent a unique opportunity for bacterial epigenomic studies. These MTases are rather …

Histone lysine methyltransferases in biology and disease

D Husmann, O Gozani - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2019 - nature.com
… The 7βS protein hDOT1L is the only enzyme in the human proteome that generates H3K79me,
one of the few histone modifications found within the globular region of the nucleosome (…