Histone methylation: a dynamic mark in health, disease and inheritance

EL Greer, Y Shi - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
… There is also evidence that histone methylation can influence DNA methylation, and these
two marks reinforce each other to establish repressive chromatin environments. This topic is …

Contribution of genetic variation to transgenerational inheritance of DNA methylation

AF McRae, JE Powell, AK Henders, L Bowdler… - Genome biology, 2014 - Springer
… Despite the important role DNA methylation plays in transcriptional regulation, the … inheritance
of DNA methylation is not well understood. The genetic heritability of DNA methylation has …

DNA methylation and epigenetic inheritance during plant gametogenesis

S Takeda, J Paszkowski - Chromosoma, 2006 - Springer
… of the interplay between DNA methylation and histone modification in the … inheritance during
plant gametogenesis. This process plays a fundamental role in the propagation of chromatin

DNA methylation: superior or subordinate in the epigenetic hierarchy?

B Jin, Y Li, KD Robertson - Genes & cancer, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
DNA methylation may coordinately regulate the chromatin status via the interaction of …
cues, other than hemimethylated DNA, from the chromatin are needed for inheritance of DNA

[HTML][HTML] CpG methylation, chromatin structure and gene silencing—a three-way connection

A Razin - The EMBO journal, 1998 - embopress.org
… The three-way connection between DNA methylation, gene activity and chromatininherited
during many cycles of DNA replication remains an unresolved problem. DNA methylation

Relationships between chromatin organization and DNA methylation in determining gene expression

PL Jones, AP Wolffe - Seminars in cancer biology, 1999 - Elsevier
… of DNA in the eukaryotic nucleus we can discuss the molecular mechanisms by which
DNA methylation influences the structure and function of chromatin and chromosomes. …

DNA methylation and epigenetic control of cellular differentiation

DA Khavari, GL Sen, JL Rinn - Cell cycle, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
… is a classic and powerful example of the epigenetic inheritance of … and chromatin-modifying
complexes to imprint maternal or paternal alleles containing differentially DNA methylated

Chromatin insulators: regulatory mechanisms and epigenetic inheritance

AM Bushey, ER Dorman, VG Corces - Molecular cell, 2008 - cell.com
… for epigenetic inheritance and regulation … DNA elements and the proteins and RNAs that
interact with them. Insulators are regulatory DNA elements that create boundaries in chromatin, …

The inheritance of acquired epigenetic variations

E Jablonka, MJ Lamb - Journal of theoretical biology, 1989 - Elsevier
… level of DNA methylation is … inherited is the basis of our model for the inheritance of acquired
epigenetic characters. We believe that genomic imprinting, in which the inherited chromatin

Chromatin as a potential carrier of heritable information

PD Kaufman, OJ Rando - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2010 - Elsevier
methylation patterns, small RNAs, and chromatin structure [2, 3, 4]. Although some proposed
information carriers, such as DNA methylation… putative chromatin inheritance paradigms, we …