Regulation and function of DNA methylation in plants and animals

XJ He, T Chen, JK Zhu - Cell research, 2011 - nature.com
… In this review, we will discuss recent advances in DNA methylation and demethylation, the
… histone modifications on DNA methylation, and the diverse functions of DNA methylation. …

Active DNA demethylation: many roads lead to Rome

SC Wu, Y Zhang - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2010 - nature.com
… , DNA methylation refers to the addition of a methyl group to the fifth carbon of base C. Active
DNA demethylation involves … Global DNA demethylation has only been seen during early …

Periodic DNA methylation in maize nucleosomes and demethylation by environmental stress

N Steward, M Ito, Y Yamaguchi, N Koizumi… - Journal of Biological …, 2002 - ASBMB
… conclusion that levels of DNA methylation change in the … DNA methylation may function as
a common switch of gene expression and that naturally induced changes in DNA methylation

DNA methylation and breast cancer

M Szyf, P Pakneshan, SA Rabbani - Biochemical pharmacology, 2004 - Elsevier
… in suppressing uPA expression in non-invasive breast cancer was demonstrated by showing
that the DNA methylation inhibitor 5-aza-CdR induces demethylation and expression of …

Regulatory link between DNA methylation and active demethylation in Arabidopsis

M Lei, H Zhang, R Julian, K Tang… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
… as a DNA methylation monitoring sequence (MEMS) that senses DNA methylation and active
DNA demethylation … ) to sense DNA methylation levels and regulates DNA methylation by …

Pathways of DNA demethylation

W Dean - DNA Methyltransferases-Role and Function, 2016 - Springer
… to create a wide division of labour for DNA methylation in the vertebrate genome. However,
… of how DNA methylation may be lost. In any discussion of DNA methylation reprogramming, …

Genome-wide distribution of DNA methylation and DNA demethylation and related chromatin regulators in cancer

Y Jiang, S Liu, X Chen, Y Cao, Y Tao - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2013 - Elsevier
… for the understanding of DNA methylation patterns in … DNA methylation and demethylation
and their related factors, and we discuss the potential of DNA methylation and demethylation

DNA methylation and demethylation events during meiotic prophase in the mouse testis

JM Trasler, LE Hake, PA Johnson… - … and cellular biology, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
… The DNA methylation patterns for three postmeiotically expressed … We have compared the
DNA methylation patterns … to demethylation, de novo methylation must occur after DNA I11 …

DNA methylation and cancer

PM Das, R Singal - Journal of clinical oncology, 2004 - ascopubs.org
… Novel demethylating agents such as antisense DNA methyl transferase and small interference
RNA are being developed, making the field of DNA methylation wider and more exciting. …

[HTML][HTML] Reversing DNA methylation: mechanisms, genomics, and biological functions

H Wu, Y Zhang - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
DNA demethylation in mammalian genomes, focusing particularly on how developmental
modulation of the cytosine-modifying pathway is coupled to active reversal of DNA methylation