Epigenetic regulation in metabolic diseases: mechanisms and advances in clinical study

YL Wu, ZJ Lin, CC Li, X Lin, SK Shan, B Guo… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Epigenetics regulates gene expression and has been confirmed to play a critical role in a
variety of metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease …

Shared and distinct mechanisms of fibrosis

JHW Distler, AH Györfi, M Ramanujam… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Fibrosis is defined as an excessive deposition of connective tissue components and can
affect virtually every organ system, including the skin, lungs, liver and kidney. Fibrotic tissue …

The CRISPR tool kit for genome editing and beyond

M Adli - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
CRISPR is becoming an indispensable tool in biological research. Once known as the
bacterial immune system against invading viruses, the programmable capacity of the Cas9 …

The molecular hallmarks of epigenetic control

CD Allis, T Jenuwein - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Over the past 20 years, breakthrough discoveries of chromatin-modifying enzymes and
associated mechanisms that alter chromatin in response to physiological or pathological …

DNA methylation predicts age and provides insight into exceptional longevity of bats

GS Wilkinson, DM Adams, A Haghani, AT Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Exceptionally long-lived species, including many bats, rarely show overt signs of aging,
making it difficult to determine why species differ in lifespan. Here, we use DNA methylation …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic alterations in cancer

S Ilango, B Paital, P Jayachandran… - Frontiers in Bioscience …, 2020 - imrpress.com
Genetic and epigenetic modifications in DNA contribute to altered gene expression in aging
and cancer. In human cancers, epigenetic changes such as DNA methylation, histone …

Interpreting the language of histone and DNA modifications

SB Rothbart, BD Strahl - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2014 - Elsevier
A major mechanism regulating the accessibility and function of eukaryotic genomes are the
covalent modifications to DNA and histone proteins that dependably package our genetic …

Recent advances on electrochemical biosensing strategies toward universal point‐of‐care systems

Y Dai, CC Liu - Angewandte Chemie, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A number of very recently developed electrochemical biosensing strategies are promoting
electrochemical biosensing systems into practical point‐of‐care applications. The focus of …

Transcriptional and epigenomic landscapes of CNS and non-CNS vascular endothelial cells

MF Sabbagh, JS Heng, C Luo, RG Castanon, JR Nery… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Vascular endothelial cell (EC) function depends on appropriate organ-specific molecular
and cellular specializations. To explore genomic mechanisms that control this specialization …

The epigenetics of aging and neurodegeneration

R Lardenoije, A Iatrou, G Kenis, K Kompotis… - Progress in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Epigenetics is a quickly growing field encompassing mechanisms regulating gene
expression that do not involve changes in the genotype. Epigenetics is of increasing …