Epigenetic reprogramming of cancer cells via targeted DNA methylation

AG Rivenbark, S Stolzenburg, AS Beltran, X Yuan… - Epigenetics, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
An obstacle in the treatment of human diseases such as cancer is the inability to selectively
and effectively target historically undruggable targets such as transcription factors. Here, we …

Stable oncogenic silencing in vivo by programmable and targeted de novo DNA methylation in breast cancer

S Stolzenburg, AS Beltran, T Swift-Scanlan… - Oncogene, 2015 - nature.com
With the recent comprehensive mapping of cancer genomes, there is now a need for
functional approaches to edit the aberrant epigenetic state of key cancer drivers to …

Engineering of effector domains for targeted DNA methylation with reduced off-target effects

D Hofacker, J Broche, L Laistner, S Adam… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Epigenome editing is a promising technology, potentially allowing the stable reprogramming
of gene expression profiles without alteration of the DNA sequence. Targeted DNA …

Targeted mRNA demethylation using an engineered dCas13b-ALKBH5 fusion protein

J Li, Z Chen, F Chen, G Xie, Y Ling, Y Peng… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Studies on biological functions of N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification in mRNA have
drawn significant attention in recent years. Here we describe the construction and …

Efficient targeted DNA methylation with chimeric dCas9–Dnmt3a–Dnmt3L methyltransferase

P Stepper, G Kungulovski, RZ Jurkowska… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation plays a critical role in the regulation and maintenance of cell-type specific
transcriptional programs. Targeted epigenome editing is an emerging technology to …

Gene-specific targeting of DNA methylation in the mammalian genome

A Urbano, J Smith, RJ Weeks, A Chatterjee - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
DNA methylation is the most widely-studied epigenetic modification, playing a critical role in
the regulation of gene expression. Dysregulation of DNA methylation is implicated in the …

DNA methylation and de-methylation using hybrid site-targeting proteins

Y Lei, YH Huang, MA Goodell - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
DNA methylation plays important roles in determining cellular identity, disease, and
environmental responses, but little is known about the mechanisms that drive methylation …

Re-activation of a dormant tumor suppressor gene maspin by designed transcription factors

A Beltran, S Parikh, Y Liu, BD Cuevas, GL Johnson… - Oncogene, 2007 - nature.com
The controlled and specific re-activation of endogenous tumor suppressors in cancer cells
represents an important therapeutic strategy to block tumor growth and subsequent …

Editing DNA methylation in the mammalian genome

XS Liu, H Wu, X Ji, Y Stelzer, X Wu, S Czauderna… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Mammalian DNA methylation is a critical epigenetic mechanism orchestrating gene
expression networks in many biological processes. However, investigation of the functions …

Targeted DNA methylation in vivo using an engineered dCas9-MQ1 fusion protein

Y Lei, X Zhang, J Su, M Jeong, MC Gundry… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Comprehensive studies have shown that DNA methylation plays vital roles in both loss of
pluripotency and governance of the transcriptome during embryogenesis and subsequent …