High levels of de novo methylation and altered chromatin structure at CpG islands in cell lines

F Antequera, J Boyes, A Bird - Cell, 1990 - cell.com
CpG islands are normally methylation free in cells of the animal, even when the associated
gene is transcriptionally silent. In mouse NIH 3T3 and L cells, however, over half of the …

DNA methylation in human epigenomes depends on local topology of CpG sites

C Lövkvist, IB Dodd, K Sneppen… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In vertebrates, methylation of cytosine at CpG sequences is implicated in stable and
heritable patterns of gene expression. The classical model for inheritance, in which …

A CpG island-encoded mechanism protects genes from premature transcription termination

AL Hughes, AT Szczurek, JR Kelley… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Transcription must be tightly controlled to regulate gene expression and development.
However, our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that influence transcription and …

CG methylation

C Vinson, R Chatterjee - Epigenomics, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
A striking feature of mammalian genomes is the paucity of the CG dinucleotide. There are
approximately 20,000 regions termed CpG islands where CGs cluster. This represents 5% of …

Smchd1-dependent and-independent pathways determine developmental dynamics of CpG island methylation on the inactive X chromosome

AV Gendrel, A Apedaile, H Coker, A Termanis… - Developmental cell, 2012 - cell.com
X chromosome inactivation involves multiple levels of chromatin modification, established
progressively and in a stepwise manner during early development. The chromosomal …

A comprehensive analysis of allelic methylation status of CpG islands on human chromosome 21q

Y Yamada, H Watanabe, F Miura, H Soejima… - Genome …, 2004 - genome.cshlp.org
Approximately half of all human genes have CpG islands (CGIs) around their promoter
regions. Although CGIs usually escape methylation, those on Chromosome X in females …

Reduced genomic cytosine methylation and defective cellular differentiation in embryonic stem cells lacking CpG binding protein

DL Carlone, JH Lee, SRL Young… - … and cellular biology, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Cytosine methylation at CpG dinucleotides is a critical epigenetic modification of mammalian
genomes. CpG binding protein (CGBP) exhibits a unique DNA-binding specificity for …

Genome-wide profiling of DNA methylation reveals a class of normally methylated CpG island promoters

L Shen, Y Kondo, Y Guo, J Zhang, L Zhang… - PLoS …, 2007 - journals.plos.org
The role of CpG island methylation in normal development and cell differentiation is of keen
interest, but remains poorly understood. We performed comprehensive DNA methylation …

Intergenic, gene terminal, and intragenic CpG islands in the human genome

YA Medvedeva, MV Fridman, NJ Oparina, DB Malko… - BMC genomics, 2010 - Springer
Background Recently, it has been discovered that the human genome contains many
transcription start sites for non-coding RNA. Regulatory regions related to transcription of …

Purification of CpG islands using a methylated DNA binding column

SH Cross, JA Charlton, X Nan, AP Bird - Nature genetics, 1994 - nature.com
CpG islands are short stretches of DNA containing a high density of non–methylated CpG
dinucleotides, predominantly associated with coding regions. We have constructed an …