DNA methylation and cancer

M Kulis, M Esteller - Advances in genetics, 2010 - Elsevier
… Another model of gene inactivation mediated by DNA methylation is related to methyl-CpG
binding domain proteins (MBDs). In general, DNA methylation is considered to be an …

The genomic impact of DNA CpG methylation on gene expression; relationships in prostate cancer

MD Long, DJ Smiraglia, MJ Campbell - Biomolecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
… Within the prostate cancer TCGA cohort, we examined the relationships between expression
of genes that control DNA methylation, known targets of DNA methylation and tumor status. …

The DNA methylation paradox

PA Jones - Trends in genetics, 1999 - cell.com
… proposed that DNA methylation was part of a system for controlling gene expression in …
of DNA methylation is permanent gene suppression mediated through the modification of CpG

Methods for analysis of specific DNA methylation status

MJ Pajares, C Palanca-Ballester, R Urtasun… - Methods, 2021 - Elsevier
… contained in the DNA amplicon (assessed … DNA methylation percentage for each CpG site)
All CpGs contained in the amplicon (Estimates the methylation content of the amplicon) CpGs

DNA methylation‐mediated epigenetic control

A Rottach, H Leonhardt, F Spada - Journal of cellular …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… for DNA methylation and … DNA methylation is the longest known and perhaps most extensively
characterized epigenetic mark. We will first outline the basic features of DNA methylation

Identification of a mammalian protein that binds specifically to DNA containing methylated CpGs

RR Meehan, JD Lewis, S McKay, EL Kleiner, AP Bird - Cell, 1989 - cell.com
… effect of DNA methylation on transcription to explain their observation that methylCpGs in a
… They proposed that a methyl-CpG binding protein could mediate this effect. Stabilization of …

Aberrant DNA methylation as a cancer-inducing mechanism

M Esteller - Annu. Rev. Pharmacol. Toxicol., 2005 - annualreviews.org
… Initial clues to understand this paradox should be revealed from the current studies of DNA
methyltransferases and methyl CpG binding proteins. From the translational standpoint, we …

CpG and non-CpG methylation in epigenetic gene regulation and brain function

HS Jang, WJ Shin, JE Lee, JT Do - Genes, 2017 - mdpi.com
DNA methylation is also found at sites other than CpG sequences. This type of methylation
is referred to as non-CpG methylation, … that DNA methylation occurs universally at non-CpG

Methods in DNA methylation profiling

T Zuo, B Tycko, TM Liu, HJL Lin, THM Huang - Epigenomics, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
… as another approach in DNA methylation profiling. We will discuss this methodology and its
… in studying DNA methylation in a later section. Some of the representative DNA methylation

Methyl-CpG binding proteins in the nervous system

G Fan, L Hutnick - Cell research, 2005 - nature.com
… Alterations in DNA methylation machinery have been linked … an important role for DNA
methylation in brain development … To directly examine the effect of DNA hypomethylation on the …