QSER1 protects DNA methylation valleys from de novo methylation

G Dixon, H Pan, D Yang, BP Rosen, T Jashari… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION DNA methylation is essential to mammalian development, and
dysregulation can cause serious pathological conditions, including immunodeficiency …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting CDK9 reactivates epigenetically silenced genes in cancer

H Zhang, S Pandey, M Travers, H Sun, G Morton… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Summary Cyclin-dependent kinase 9 (CDK9) promotes transcriptional elongation through
RNAPII pause release. We now report that CDK9 is also essential for maintaining gene …

[HTML][HTML] TET (Ten-eleven translocation) family proteins: structure, biological functions and applications

X Zhang, Y Zhang, C Wang, X Wang - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Ten-eleven translocation (TET) family proteins (TETs), specifically, TET1, TET2 and TET3,
can modify DNA by oxidizing 5-methylcytosine (5mC) iteratively to yield 5 …

[HTML][HTML] Intrauterine programming of obesity and type 2 diabetes

DS Fernandez-Twinn, L Hjort, B Novakovic, SE Ozanne… - Diabetologia, 2019 - Springer
The type 2 diabetes epidemic and one of its predisposing factors, obesity, are major
influences on global health and economic burden. It is accepted that genetics and the …

The epigenetic landscape related to reactive oxygen species formation in the cardiovascular system

T Kietzmann, A Petry, A Shvetsova… - British journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cardiovascular diseases are among the leading causes of death worldwide. Reactive
oxygen species (ROS) can act as damaging molecules but also represent central hubs in …

Dynamics and context-dependent roles of DNA methylation

C Ambrosi, M Manzo, T Baubec - Journal of molecular biology, 2017 - Elsevier
DNA methylation is one of the most extensively studied epigenetic marks. It is involved in
transcriptional gene silencing and plays important roles during mammalian development. Its …

TET deficiency perturbs mature B cell homeostasis and promotes oncogenesis associated with accumulation of G-quadruplex and R-loop structures

V Shukla, D Samaniego-Castruita, Z Dong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Enzymes of the TET family are methylcytosine dioxygenases that undergo frequent
mutational or functional inactivation in human cancers. Recurrent loss-of-function mutations …

[图书][B] Medicinal chemistry of anticancer drugs

C Avendaño, JC Menéndez - 2015 - books.google.com
Medicinal Chemistry of Anticancer Drugs, Second Edition, provides an updated treatment
from the point of view of medicinal chemistry and drug design, focusing on the mechanism of …

Undercover: gene control by metabolites and metabolic enzymes

JA van der Knaap, CP Verrijzer - Genes & development, 2016 - genesdev.cshlp.org
To make the appropriate developmental decisions or maintain homeostasis, cells and
organisms must coordinate the expression of their genome and metabolic state. However …

TET proteins safeguard bivalent promoters from de novo methylation in human embryonic stem cells

N Verma, H Pan, LC Doré, A Shukla, QV Li… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract TET enzymes oxidize 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC),
which can lead to DNA demethylation. However, direct connections between TET-mediated …