Increasing specificity of targeted DNA methylation editing by non-enzymatic CRISPR/dCas9-based steric hindrance

DM Sapozhnikov, M Szyf - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
… However, there are still numerous barriers to overcome. … DNA methylation machinery
and reduces unwanted … of any epigenetic editor for targeted DNA methylation must be a …

Patterns of DNA methylation throughout a range expansion of an introduced songbird

AL Liebl, AW Schrey, CL Richards, LB Martin - 2013 - academic.oup.com
… overcome the genetic barriers associated with introductions (eg, … DNA methylation among
cities throughout the range expansion of house sparrows in Kenya. We described epigenetic

Epigenetic drug discovery: breaking through the immune barrier

DF Tough, PP Tak, A Tarakhovsky… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2016 - nature.com
… modifications, the preponderance of studies to date have focused on DNA methylation.
From this work, altered DNA methylation in immune cells has been shown in multiple immune-…

Stem cells and reprogramming: breaking the epigenetic barrier?

YS Ang, A Gaspar-Maia, IR Lemischka… - Trends in …, 2011 - cell.com
… Increasing evidence suggests that epigenetic regulation is … substrate for epigenetic marking,
including DNA methylation, post-… appears to be a crucial barrier that must be surmounted for …

Epigenetic control of intestinal barrier function and inflammation in zebrafish

L Marjoram, A Alvers, ME Deerhake… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
… Given the critical role of uhrf1 in maintaining DNA methylation, we hypothesized that the …
of DNA methylation and epigenetic repression at the tnfa promoter leads to intestinal barrier

Chromatin inactivation precedes de novo DNA methylation during the progressive epigenetic silencing of the RASSF1A promoter

M Strunnikova, U Schagdarsurengin… - … and cellular biology, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
… In mammary epithelial cells that had overcome a stress-associated senescence barrier, a
spreading of DNA methylation in the CpG island promoter was observed. When the RASSF1A-…

Targeting DNA methylation

JPJ Issa, HM Kantarjian - Clinical Cancer Research, 2009 - AACR
… The epigenetic potential of DNA methylation inhibitors may be limited by other epigenetic
abnormalities in cancer suggest, several barriers need to be overcome: drug delivery, …

Population epigenetics: The extent of DNA methylation variation in wild animal populations

V Chapelle, F Silvestre - Epigenomes, 2022 - mdpi.com
… Then, we highlight the relevance of DNA methylation variation as an evolutionary … knowledge
of the population epigenetics field. As for our results, DNA methylation diversity was found …

Analysis of the epigenetic signature of cell reprogramming by computational DNA methylation profiles

Y Zuo, M Song, H Li, X Chen, P Cao… - Current …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
… In this study, we aimed to explore endogenous signatures and detect potential reprogramming
barriers based on published DNA methylation [17]. First, we summarized the global …

Epigenetics in blood–brain barrier disruption

SA Ihezie, IE Mathew, DW McBride, A Dienel… - … and barriers of the CNS, 2021 - Springer
… are directed by epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation or … epigenetic mechanisms
like microRNAs, long non-coding RNAs, and histone variants [1, 2]. These epigenetic