[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation: a historical perspective

AL Mattei, N Bailly, A Meissner - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
In 1925, 5-methylcytosine was first reported in bacteria. However, its biological importance
was not intuitive for several decades. After this initial lag, the ubiquitous presence of this …

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 …

[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 …

Segmental duplications and their variation in a complete human genome

MR Vollger, X Guitart, PC Dishuck, L Mercuri… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Despite their importance in disease and evolution, highly identical segmental duplications
(SDs) are among the last regions of the human reference genome (GRCh38) to be fully …

DNA methylation profiling: an emerging paradigm for cancer diagnosis

A Papanicolau-Sengos, K Aldape - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Histomorphology has been a mainstay of cancer diagnosis in anatomic pathology for many
years. DNA methylation profiling is an additional emerging tool that will serve as an adjunct …

Transgenerational inheritance of acquired epigenetic signatures at CpG islands in mice

Y Takahashi, MM Valencia, Y Yu, Y Ouchi, K Takahashi… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in mammals remains a debated subject. Here, we
demonstrate that DNA methylation of promoter-associated CpG islands (CGIs) can be …

The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer

SG Zhao, WS Chen, H Li, A Foye, M Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Although DNA methylation is a key regulator of gene expression, the comprehensive
methylation landscape of metastatic cancer has never been defined. Through whole …

Eukaryotic core promoters and the functional basis of transcription initiation

V Haberle, A Stark - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract RNA polymerase II (Pol II) core promoters are specialized DNA sequences at
transcription start sites of protein-coding and non-coding genes that support the assembly of …

Single-cell multi-omics of human clonal hematopoiesis reveals that DNMT3A R882 mutations perturb early progenitor states through selective hypomethylation

AS Nam, N Dusaj, F Izzo, R Murali, RM Myers… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Somatic mutations in cancer genes have been detected in clonal expansions across healthy
human tissue, including in clonal hematopoiesis. However, because mutated and wild-type …

DNA methylation and healthy human aging

MJ Jones, SJ Goodman, MS Kobor - Aging cell, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The process of aging results in a host of changes at the cellular and molecular levels, which
include senescence, telomere shortening, and changes in gene expression. Epigenetic …