Epigenetic alterations in the gastrointestinal tract: current and emerging use for biomarkers of cancer

WM Grady - Advances in cancer research, 2021 - Elsevier
Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide. One of the
hallmarks of cancer and a fundamental trait of virtually all gastrointestinal cancers is …

Sensitivity of transcription factors to DNA methylation

É Héberlé, AF Bardet - Essays in biochemistry, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Dynamic binding of transcription factors (TFs) to regulatory elements controls transcriptional
states throughout organism development. Epigenetics modifications, such as DNA …

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 …

Staying true to yourself: mechanisms of DNA methylation maintenance in mammals

N Petryk, S Bultmann, T Bartke… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is essential to development and cellular physiology in mammals. Faulty
DNA methylation is frequently observed in human diseases like cancer and neurological …

ChromID identifies the protein interactome at chromatin marks

R Villaseñor, R Pfaendler, C Ambrosi, S Butz… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Chromatin modifications regulate genome function by recruiting proteins to the genome.
However, the protein composition at distinct chromatin modifications has yet to be fully …

Oncogenic roles and inhibitors of DNMT1, DNMT3A, and DNMT3B in acute myeloid leukaemia

KK Wong, CH Lawrie, TM Green - Biomarker insights, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Epigenetic alteration has been proposed to give rise to numerous classic hallmarks of
cancer. Impaired DNA methylation plays a central role in the onset and progression of …

Epigenetics in teleost fish: From molecular mechanisms to physiological phenotypes

C Best, H Ikert, DJ Kostyniuk, PM Craig… - … and Physiology Part B …, 2018 - Elsevier
While the field of epigenetics is increasingly recognized to contribute to the emergence of
phenotypes in mammalian research models across different developmental and …

Old cogs, new tricks: the evolution of gene expression in a chromatin context

PB Talbert, MP Meers, S Henikoff - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Sophisticated gene-regulatory mechanisms probably evolved in prokaryotes billions of
years before the emergence of modern eukaryotes, which inherited the same basic …

Epigenetic regulation of cancer-associated fibroblast heterogeneity

RJ Kehrberg, N Bhyravbhatla, SK Batra… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), a significant component of the tumor
microenvironment (TME), contribute to cancer progression through the secretion of …

Male fertility in Arabidopsis requires active DNA demethylation of genes that control pollen tube function

S Khouider, F Borges, C LeBlanc, A Ungru… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Active DNA demethylation is required for sexual reproduction in plants but the molecular
determinants underlying this epigenetic control are not known. Here, we show in …