Epigenetics and environment: a complex relationship

O Aguilera, AF Fernández, A Muñoz… - Journal of applied …, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
The epigenomes of higher organisms constantly change over time. Many of these epigenetic
changes are necessary to direct normal cellular development and differentiation in the …

[HTML][HTML] Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) and the molecular hallmarks of aging

I Grammatikakis, AC Panda, K Abdelmohsen… - Aging (Albany …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
During aging, progressive deleterious changes increase the risk of disease and death.
Prominent molecular hallmarks of aging are genomic instability, telomere attrition …

The Xist lncRNA exploits three-dimensional genome architecture to spread across the X chromosome

JM Engreitz, A Pandya-Jones, P McDonel, A Shishkin… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Introduction Mammalian genomes encode thousands of large noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs),
many of which regulate gene expression, interact with chromatin regulatory complexes, and …

Molecular interplay of the noncoding RNA ANRIL and methylated histone H3 lysine 27 by polycomb CBX7 in transcriptional silencing of INK4a

KL Yap, S Li, AM Muñoz-Cabello, S Raguz, L Zeng… - Molecular cell, 2010 - cell.com
Expression of the INK4b/ARF/INK4a tumor suppressor locus in normal and cancerous cell
growth is controlled by methylation of histone H3 at lysine 27 (H3K27me) as directed by the …

Kcnq1ot1 antisense noncoding RNA mediates lineage-specific transcriptional silencing through chromatin-level regulation

RR Pandey, T Mondal, F Mohammad, S Enroth… - Molecular cell, 2008 - cell.com
Recent investigations have implicated long antisense noncoding RNAs in the epigenetic
regulation of chromosomal domains. Here we show that Kcnq1ot1 is an RNA polymerase II …

Long noncoding RNA in genome regulation: prospects and mechanisms

T Hung, HY Chang - RNA biology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are pervasively transcribed and critical regulators of the
epigenome [1, 2]. These long, polyadenylated RNAs do not code for proteins, but function …

The Air Noncoding RNA Epigenetically Silences Transcription by Targeting G9a to Chromatin

T Nagano, JA Mitchell, LA Sanz, FM Pauler… - Science, 2008 - science.org
A number of large noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) epigenetically silence genes through
unknown mechanisms. The Air ncRNA is imprinted—monoallelically expressed from the …

Topological organization of multichromosomal regions by the long intergenic noncoding RNA Firre

E Hacisuleyman, LA Goff, C Trapnell… - Nature structural & …, 2014 - nature.com
RNA, including long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), is known to be an abundant and important
structural component of the nuclear matrix. However, the molecular identities, functional …

Multigenerational epigenetic adaptation of the hepatic wound-healing response

M Zeybel, T Hardy, YK Wong, JC Mathers, CR Fox… - Nature medicine, 2012 - nature.com
We investigated whether ancestral liver damage leads to heritable reprogramming of
hepatic wound healing in male rats. We found that a history of liver damage corresponds …

[HTML][HTML] Long non-coding RNA HOTAIR is associated with human cervical cancer progression

HJ Kim, DW Lee, GW Yim, EJ Nam… - International …, 2015 - spandidos-publications.com
The functions of many long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in human cancers remain to be
clarified. The lncRNA Hox transcript antisense intergenic RNA (HOTAIR) has been reported …