[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 …

[HTML][HTML] LncRNA-mediated DNA methylation: an emerging mechanism in cancer and beyond

W Huang, H Li, Q Yu, W Xiao, DO Wang - Journal of Experimental & …, 2022 - Springer
DNA methylation is one of the most important epigenetic mechanisms to regulate gene
expression, which is highly dynamic during development and specifically maintained in …

Principles of DNA methylation and their implications for biology and medicine

Y Dor, H Cedar - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
DNA methylation represents an annotation system for marking the genetic text, thus
providing instruction as to how and when to read the information and control transcription …

Dynamic DNA methylation: In the right place at the right time

C Luo, P Hajkova, JR Ecker - Science, 2018 - science.org
The classical model of cytosine DNA methylation (the presence of 5-methylcytosine, 5mC)
regulation depicts this covalent modification as a stable repressive regulator of promoter …

TET-mediated active DNA demethylation: mechanism, function and beyond

X Wu, Y Zhang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
In mammals, DNA methylation in the form of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) can be actively
reversed to unmodified cytosine (C) through TET dioxygenase-mediated oxidation of 5mC to …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetics of aging and aging-associated diseases

D Saul, RL Kosinsky - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Aging represents the multifactorial decline in physiological function of every living organism.
Over the past decades, several hallmarks of aging have been defined, including epigenetic …

[HTML][HTML] Editing DNA methylation in the mammalian genome

XS Liu, H Wu, X Ji, Y Stelzer, X Wu, S Czauderna… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Mammalian DNA methylation is a critical epigenetic mechanism orchestrating gene
expression networks in many biological processes. However, investigation of the functions …

[HTML][HTML] Rescue of fragile X syndrome neurons by DNA methylation editing of the FMR1 gene

XS Liu, H Wu, M Krzisch, X Wu, J Graef, J Muffat… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common genetic form of intellectual disability in males,
is caused by silencing of the FMR1 gene associated with hypermethylation of the CGG …

[HTML][HTML] A novel FLI1 exonic circular RNA promotes metastasis in breast cancer by coordinately regulating TET1 and DNMT1

N Chen, G Zhao, X Yan, Z Lv, H Yin, S Zhang, W Song… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Friend leukemia virus integration 1 (FLI1), an ETS transcription factor family
member, acts as an oncogenic driver in hematological malignancies and promotes tumor …