The diverse roles of DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease

MVC Greenberg, D Bourc'his - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
DNA methylation is of paramount importance for mammalian embryonic development. DNA
methylation has numerous functions: it is implicated in the repression of transposons and …

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 …

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 …

Mechanisms of early placental development in mouse and humans

M Hemberger, CW Hanna, W Dean - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
The importance of the placenta in supporting mammalian development has long been
recognized, but our knowledge of the molecular, genetic and epigenetic requirements that …

Impact of cytosine methylation on DNA binding specificities of human transcription factors

Y Yin, E Morgunova, A Jolma, E Kaasinen, B Sahu… - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Nearly all cells in the human body share the same primary genome
sequence consisting of four nucleotide bases. One of the bases, cytosine, is commonly …

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 …

Single nucleus multi-omics identifies human cortical cell regulatory genome diversity

C Luo, H Liu, F Xie, EJ Armand, K Siletti, TE Bakken… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Single-cell technologies measure unique cellular signatures but are typically limited to a
single modality. Computational approaches allow the fusion of diverse single-cell data …

Transcription factors as readers and effectors of DNA methylation

H Zhu, G Wang, J Qian - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Recent technological advances have made it possible to decode DNA methylomes at single-
base-pair resolution under various physiological conditions. Many aberrant or differentially …

Mapping genome-wide transcription-factor binding sites using DAP-seq

A Bartlett, RC O'Malley, SC Huang, M Galli, JR Nery… - Nature protocols, 2017 - nature.com
To enable low-cost, high-throughput generation of cistrome and epicistrome maps for any
organism, we developed DNA affinity purification sequencing (DAP-seq), a transcription …

Transcription factor–DNA binding: beyond binding site motifs

S Inukai, KH Kock, ML Bulyk - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2017 - Elsevier
Sequence-specific transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression by binding to cis-
regulatory elements in promoter and enhancer DNA. While studies of TF–DNA binding have …