The key role of epigenetics in human disease prevention and mitigation

AP Feinberg - New England Journal of Medicine, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Epigenetics in Disease Prevention and Mitigation Epigenetics is the regulation of gene
expression through alterations in DNA or associated factors (other than the DNA sequence) …

Aging hallmarks and the role of oxidative stress

E Maldonado, S Morales-Pison, F Urbina, A Solari - Antioxidants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Aging is a complex biological process accompanied by a progressive decline in the physical
function of the organism and an increased risk of age-related chronic diseases such as …

Intragenic DNA methylation prevents spurious transcription initiation

F Neri, S Rapelli, A Krepelova, D Incarnato, C Parlato… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
In mammals, DNA methylation occurs mainly at CpG dinucleotides. Methylation of the
promoter suppresses gene expression, but the functional role of gene-body DNA …

[PDF][PDF] N6-deoxyadenosine methylation in mammalian mitochondrial DNA

Z Hao, T Wu, X Cui, P Zhu, C Tan, X Dou, KW Hsu… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Summary N 6-Methyldeoxyadenosine (6mA) has recently been shown to exist and play
regulatory roles in eukaryotic genomic DNA (gDNA). However, the biological functions of …

VDAC1 at the intersection of cell metabolism, apoptosis, and diseases

V Shoshan-Barmatz, A Shteinfer-Kuzmine, A Verma - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The voltage-dependent anion channel 1 (VDAC1) protein, is an important regulator of
mitochondrial function, and serves as a mitochondrial gatekeeper, with responsibility for …

Epigenetic mechanisms in diabetic complications and metabolic memory

MA Reddy, E Zhang, R Natarajan - Diabetologia, 2015 - Springer
The incidence of diabetes and its associated micro-and macrovascular complications is
greatly increasing worldwide. The most prevalent vascular complications of both type 1 and …

[HTML][HTML] Base-resolution analysis of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in the mammalian genome

M Yu, GC Hon, KE Szulwach, CX Song, L Zhang, A Kim… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Summary The study of 5-hydroxylmethylcytosines (5hmC) has been hampered by the lack of
a method to map it at single-base resolution on a genome-wide scale. Affinity purification …

Intragenic DNA methylation modulates alternative splicing by recruiting MeCP2 to promote exon recognition

AK Maunakea, I Chepelev, K Cui, K Zhao - Cell research, 2013 - nature.com
Although the function of DNA methylation in gene promoter regions is well established in
transcriptional repression, the function of the evolutionarily conserved widespread …

Sox2 induces glioblastoma cell stemness and tumor propagation by repressing TET2 and deregulating 5hmC and 5mC DNA modifications

H Lopez-Bertoni, A Johnson, Y Rui, B Lal… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a reversible process catalyzed by the ten–eleven translocation (TET)
family of enzymes (TET1, TET2, TET3) that convert 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to 5 …

Genome-wide DNA methylation analysis of human pancreatic islets from type 2 diabetic and non-diabetic donors identifies candidate genes that influence insulin …

T Dayeh, P Volkov, S Salö, E Hall, E Nilsson… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Impaired insulin secretion is a hallmark of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Epigenetics may affect
disease susceptibility. To describe the human methylome in pancreatic islets and determine …