Temporal uncoupling of the DNA methylome and transcriptional repression during embryogenesis

O Bogdanović, SW Long, SJ van Heeringen… - Genome …, 2011 - genome.cshlp.org
DNA methylation is a tightly regulated epigenetic mark associated with transcriptional
repression. Next-generation sequencing of purified methylated DNA obtained from early …

Epigenetic reprogramming in the germline: towards the ground state of the epigenome

P Hajkova - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Epigenetic reprogramming in the germline provides a developmental model to study the
erasure of epigenetic memory as it occurs naturally in vivo in the course of normal …

Deep sequencing and de novo assembly of the mouse oocyte transcriptome define the contribution of transcription to the DNA methylation landscape

L Veselovska, SA Smallwood, H Saadeh, KR Stewart… - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Background Previously, a role was demonstrated for transcription in the acquisition of DNA
methylation at imprinted control regions in oocytes. Definition of the oocyte DNA methylome …

Impairment of DNA methylation maintenance is the main cause of global demethylation in naive embryonic stem cells

F Von Meyenn, M Iurlaro, E Habibi, NQ Liu… - Molecular cell, 2016 - cell.com
Global demethylation is part of a conserved program of epigenetic reprogramming to naive
pluripotency. The transition from primed hypermethylated embryonic stem cells (ESCs) to …

Computational analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation during the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells along the endodermal lineage

L Chavez, J Jozefczuk, C Grimm, J Dietrich… - Genome …, 2010 - genome.cshlp.org
The generation of genome-wide data derived from methylated DNA immunoprecipitation
followed by sequencing (MeDIP-seq) has become a major tool for epigenetic studies in …

MERVL/Zscan4 network activation results in transient genome-wide DNA demethylation of mESCs

MA Eckersley-Maslin, V Svensson, C Krueger… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Mouse embryonic stem cells are dynamic and heterogeneous. For example, rare cells cycle
through a state characterized by decondensed chromatin and expression of transcripts …

Single-cell DNA-methylation analysis reveals epigenetic chimerism in preimplantation embryos

C Lorthongpanich, LF Cheow, S Balu, SR Quake… - science, 2013 - science.org
Epigenetic alterations are increasingly recognized as causes of human cancers and
disease. These aberrations are likely to arise during genomic reprogramming in mammalian …

An epigenetic switch ensures transposon repression upon dynamic loss of DNA methylation in embryonic stem cells

M Walter, A Teissandier, R Pérez-Palacios, D Bourc'His - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
DNA methylation is extensively remodeled during mammalian gametogenesis and
embryogenesis. Most transposons become hypomethylated, raising the question of their …

Single-cell methylome landscapes of mouse embryonic stem cells and early embryos analyzed using reduced representation bisulfite sequencing

H Guo, P Zhu, X Wu, X Li, L Wen, F Tang - Genome research, 2013 - genome.cshlp.org
DNA methylation is crucial for a wide variety of biological processes, yet no technique
suitable for the methylome analysis of DNA methylation at single-cell resolution is available …

DNA methylation dynamics of the human preimplantation embryo

ZD Smith, MM Chan, KC Humm, R Karnik… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
In mammals, cytosine methylation is predominantly restricted to CpG dinucleotides and
stably distributed across the genome, with local, cell-type-specific regulation directed by …