[HTML][HTML] Macrophages in immunoregulation and therapeutics

S Chen, AFUH Saeed, Q Liu, Q Jiang, H Xu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Macrophages exist in various tissues, several body cavities, and around mucosal surfaces
and are a vital part of the innate immune system for host defense against many pathogens …

[HTML][HTML] Establishment of H3K9-methylated heterochromatin and its functions in tissue differentiation and maintenance

J Padeken, SP Methot, SM Gasser - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Heterochromatin is characterized by dimethylated or trimethylated histone H3 Lys9
(H3K9me2 or H3K9me3, respectively) and is found at transposable elements, satellite …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence that direct inhibition of transcription factor binding is the prevailing mode of gene and repeat repression by DNA methylation

S Kaluscha, S Domcke, C Wirbelauer, MB Stadler… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cytosine methylation efficiently silences CpG-rich regulatory regions of genes and repeats
in mammalian genomes. To what extent this entails direct inhibition of transcription factor …

The molecular principles of gene regulation by Polycomb repressive complexes

NP Blackledge, RJ Klose - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Precise control of gene expression is fundamental to cell function and development.
Although ultimately gene expression relies on DNA-binding transcription factors to guide the …

DNA methylation QTL mapping across diverse human tissues provides molecular links between genetic variation and complex traits

M Oliva, K Demanelis, Y Lu, M Chernoff, F Jasmine… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Studies of DNA methylation (DNAm) in solid human tissues are relatively scarce; tissue-
specific characterization of DNAm is needed to understand its role in gene regulation and its …

Enzymatic methyl sequencing detects DNA methylation at single-base resolution from picograms of DNA

R Vaisvila, VKC Ponnaluri, Z Sun… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
Bisulfite sequencing detects 5mC and 5hmC at single-base resolution. However, bisulfite
treatment damages DNA, which results in fragmentation, DNA loss, and biased sequencing …

Restoring synovial homeostasis in rheumatoid arthritis by targeting fibroblast-like synoviocytes

G Nygaard, GS Firestein - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2020 - nature.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic immune-mediated disease that primarily affects the
synovium of diarthrodial joints. During the course of RA, the synovium transforms into a …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting epigenetic regulators for cancer therapy: mechanisms and advances in clinical trials

Y Cheng, C He, M Wang, X Ma, F Mo, S Yang… - Signal transduction and …, 2019 - nature.com
Epigenetic alternations concern heritable yet reversible changes in histone or DNA
modifications that regulate gene activity beyond the underlying sequence. Epigenetic …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation aging clocks: challenges and recommendations

CG Bell, R Lowe, PD Adams, AA Baccarelli, S Beck… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Epigenetic clocks comprise a set of CpG sites whose DNA methylation levels measure
subject age. These clocks are acknowledged as a highly accurate molecular correlate of …

Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease

S Jaiswal, BL Ebert - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Somatic mutations accumulate in normal tissues as a function of time. The
great majority of these mutations have no effect on fitness, so selection does not act upon …