DNA methylation and chromatin modification

HH Ng, B Adrian - Current opinion in genetics & development, 1999 - Elsevier
… for an inhibitor of DNA methylation, 5-aza-dC, to derepress silent rRNA genes. This study
provides an early indication for a link between DNA methylation and histone deacetylation. …

DNA methylation and chromatin–unraveling the tangled web

KD Robertson - Oncogene, 2002 - nature.com
… between DNA methylation and chromatinchromatin states may dictate genome-wide DNA
methylation patterning. The mammalian DNA methylation machinery – properties of the DNA

Epigenetics: interaction of DNA methylation and chromatin

M Nakao - Gene, 2001 - Elsevier
DNA methyltransferases, methyl-CpG binding proteins, histone-modifying enzymes, chromatin
… basis for transcription, DNA replication, mutation and repair, DNA recombination, and …

DNA methylation and chromatin structure

J Lewis, A Bird - FEBS letters, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
chromatin structure, DNA methylation also represses transcription. A protein (MeCP) which
binds specifically to methylated DNA … of DNA methylation on both chromatin and transcription. …

DNA Methylation-Related Chromatin Remodeling in Activity-Dependent Bdnf Gene Regulation

K Martinowich, D Hattori, H Wu, S Fouse, F He, Y Hu… - Science, 2003 - science.org
… We propose a model in which DNA methylation and its related chromatin remodeling play
critical roles in regulating gene transcription in response to neuronal activity (Fig. 4D). CpG …

DNA methylation and chromatin structure: the puzzling CpG islands

P Caiafa, M Zampieri - Journal of cellular biochemistry, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… Histone modifications, DNA methylation, and proteins able to bind methylated DNA play a
dynamic role in determining chromatin structure suitable for gene expression or silencing. At …

Epigenetics, DNA methylation, and chromatin modifying drugs

M Szyf - Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology, 2009 - annualreviews.org
… , demethylation is targeted to genes by chromatin modification changes. Transcription
factors … In summary, DNA methylation pattern and chromatin structure are found in a dynamic …

DNA methylation, chromatin inheritance, and cancer

MR Rountree, KE Bachman, JG Herman, SB Baylin - Oncogene, 2001 - nature.com
… Understanding the molecular determinants of both normal and abnormal patterns of chromatin
formation and DNA methylation thus holds great promise for our understanding of cancer …

Cancer as an epigenetic disease: DNA methylation and chromatin alterations in human tumours

M Esteller, JG Herman - The Journal of Pathology: A Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
methylation of CpG islands in one X-chromosome in women, which renders these genes
inactive. Finally, although DNA methylation … aim, sometimes DNA methylation accomplishes this …

The role of DNA methylation in setting up chromatin structure during development

T Hashimshony, J Zhang, I Keshet, M Bustin, H Cedar - Nature genetics, 2003 - nature.com
… To test whether DNA methylation actually has a role in the assembly of chromatin during
normal … programmed to be either methylated or unmethylated in all cell types of the mouse 2 . …