[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 …

Epigenetics in health and disease

L Zhang, Q Lu, C Chang - Epigenetics in allergy and autoimmunity, 2020 - Springer
Epigenetic mechanisms, which include DNA methylation, histone modification, and
microRNA (miRNA), can produce heritable phenotypic changes without a change in DNA …

Pan-cancer analysis identifies tumor-specific antigens derived from transposable elements

NM Shah, HJ Jang, Y Liang, JH Maeng, SC Tzeng… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Cryptic promoters within transposable elements (TEs) can be transcriptionally reactivated in
tumors to create new TE-chimeric transcripts, which can produce immunogenic antigens. We …

ChIP-Atlas 2021 update: a data-mining suite for exploring epigenomic landscapes by fully integrating ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq and Bisulfite-seq data

Z Zou, T Ohta, F Miura, S Oki - Nucleic acids research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract ChIP-Atlas (https://chip-atlas. org) is a web service providing both GUI-and API-
based data-mining tools to reveal the architecture of the transcription regulatory landscape …

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 …

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 …

Discovery of a first-in-class reversible DNMT1-selective inhibitor with improved tolerability and efficacy in acute myeloid leukemia

MB Pappalardi, K Keenan, M Cockerill, WA Kellner… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
DNA methylation, a key epigenetic driver of transcriptional silencing, is universally
dysregulated in cancer. Reversal of DNA methylation by hypomethylating agents, such as …

DNA methylation-based predictors of health: applications and statistical considerations

PD Yousefi, M Suderman, R Langdon… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation data have become a valuable source of information for biomarker
development, because, unlike static genetic risk estimates, DNA methylation varies …

Classical and noncanonical functions of miRNAs in cancers

MP Dragomir, E Knutsen, GA Calin - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
Alterations in microRNAs (miRNAs) expression are causative in the initiation and
progression of human cancers. The molecular events responsible for the widespread …

The multi-factorial nature of clinical multidrug resistance in cancer

YG Assaraf, A Brozovic, AC Gonçalves… - Drug resistance …, 2019 - Elsevier
Curative cancer therapy remains a major challenge particularly in cancers displaying
multidrug resistance (MDR). The MDR phenotype is characterized by cross-resistance to a …