DNMTs and impact of CpG content, transcription factors, consensus motifs, lncRNAs, and histone marks on DNA methylation

J Loaeza-Loaeza, AS Beltran, D Hernández-Sotelo - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) play an essential role in DNA methylation and
transcriptional regulation in the genome. DNMTs, along with other poorly studied elements …

Impact of physical activity and exercise on the epigenome in skeletal muscle and effects on systemic metabolism

J Plaza-Diaz, D Izquierdo, Á Torres-Martos, AT Baig… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Exercise and physical activity induces physiological responses in organisms, and
adaptations in skeletal muscle, which is beneficial for maintaining health and preventing …

Methylome of human skeletal muscle after acute & chronic resistance exercise training, detraining & retraining

RA Seaborne, J Strauss, M Cocks, S Shepherd… - Scientific data, 2018 - nature.com
DNA methylation is an important epigenetic modification that can regulate gene expression
following environmental encounters without changes to the genetic code. Using Infinium …

Genome-wide analysis in the mouse embryo reveals the importance of DNA methylation for transcription integrity

T Dahlet, A Argüeso Lleida, H Al Adhami… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Mouse embryos acquire global DNA methylation of their genome during implantation.
However the exact roles of DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) in embryos have not been …

Mouse oocyte methylomes at base resolution reveal genome-wide accumulation of non-CpG methylation and role of DNA methyltransferases

K Shirane, H Toh, H Kobayashi, F Miura, H Chiba… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification that plays a crucial role in normal mammalian
development, retrotransposon silencing, and cellular reprogramming. Although methylation …

The diverse roles of DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease

MVC Greenberg, D Bourc'his - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
DNA methylation is of paramount importance for mammalian embryonic development. DNA
methylation has numerous functions: it is implicated in the repression of transposons and …

Dissecting the functional consequences of de novo DNA methylation dynamics in human motor neuron differentiation and physiology

MJ Ziller, JA Ortega, KA Quinlan, DP Santos, H Gu… - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
The somatic DNA methylation (DNAme) landscape is established early in development but
remains highly dynamic within focal regions that overlap with gene regulatory elements. The …

Functional annotation of the human brain methylome identifies tissue-specific epigenetic variation across brain and blood

MN Davies, M Volta, R Pidsley, K Lunnon, A Dixit… - Genome biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Dynamic changes to the epigenome play a critical role in establishing and
maintaining cellular phenotype during differentiation, but little is known about the normal …

Young men with low birthweight exhibit decreased plasticity of genome-wide muscle DNA methylation by high-fat overfeeding

SC Jacobsen, L Gillberg, J Bork-Jensen… - Diabetologia, 2014 - Springer
Aims/hypothesis The association between low birthweight (LBW) and risk of developing type
2 diabetes may involve epigenetic mechanisms, with skeletal muscle being a prime target …

Charting a dynamic DNA methylation landscape of the human genome

MJ Ziller, H Gu, F Müller, J Donaghey, LTY Tsai… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a defining feature of mammalian cellular identity and is essential for
normal development,. Most cell types, except germ cells and pre-implantation embryos …