Electrogenerated chemiluminescence biosensing method for methyltransferase activity using tris (1, 10-phenanthroline) ruthenium-assembled graphene oxide

Z Yan, Y Li, J Zheng, M Zhou - Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
A novel electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) biosensing method for highly sensitive
detection of DNA methylation and assay of the methyltransferase (MTase) activity was …

Adaptation of the CHARM DNA methylation platform for the rat genome reveals novel brain region-specific differences

RS Lee, KLK Tamashiro, MJ Aryee, P Murakami… - Epigenetics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Comprehensive High-throughput Arrays for Relative Methylation (CHARM) was recently
developed as an experimental platform and analytic approach to assess DNA methylation …

[HTML][HTML] A Practical Approach for Targeting Structural Variants Genome-wide in Plasma Cell-free DNA

H Tanaka, M Murata, F Igari, R Urbanowicz… - Research …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Interrogating plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA) to detect cancer offers promise; however, no
current tests scan structural variants (SVs) throughout the genome. Here, we report a simple …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular and cellular basis of variable craniofacial phenotypes and their genetic rescue in Twisted gastrulation mutant mice

CJ Billington Jr, B Ng, C Forsman, B Schmidt… - Developmental …, 2011 - Elsevier
The severity of numerous developmental abnormalities can vary widely despite shared
genetic causes. Mice deficient in Twisted gastrulation (Twsg1−/−) display such phenotypic …

Paradox of sonic hedgehog (SHH) transcriptional regulation: Alternative transcription initiation overrides the effect of downstream promoter DNA methylation

A ten Haaf, L Franken, C Heymann, S von Serenyi… - Epigenetics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Recently, DNA methylation has been suggested as a potential mechanism involved in the
transcriptional regulation of SHH gene expression in cancer. However, detailed analyses on …

Comparison of different normalization assumptions for analyses of DNA methylation data from the cancer genome

D Wang, Y Zhang, Y Huang, P Li, M Wang, R Wu… - Gene, 2012 - Elsevier
Nowadays, some researchers normalized DNA methylation arrays data in order to remove
the technical artifacts introduced by experimental differences in sample preparation, array …

Gene-Specific DNA Methylation Profiles in Pediatric Medulloblastomas

N Kanit, O Uysal Yoca, D Ince… - Pediatric and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction Medulloblastoma is the most common pediatric central nervous tumor of high
malignancy that has been classified into both histological subtypes and molecular …

A Practical Approach for Targeting Structural Variants Genome-wide in Plasma Cell-free DNA

MM Murata, F Igari, R Urbanowicz, L Mouakkad, S Kim… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Interrogating plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA) to detect cancer offers promise; however, no
current tests scan structural variants (SVs) throughout the genome. Here, we report a simple …

[HTML][HTML] Overexpression of mutant Ptch in rhabdomyosarcomas is associated with promoter hypomethylation and increased Gli1 and H3K4me3 occupancy

F Nitzki, EJ Tolosa, N Cuvelier, A Frommhold… - Oncotarget, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Mice with heterozygous loss of the tumor suppressor Patched1 (Ptch) develop
rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS)-like tumors. However, Ptch transcripts are consistently …

DAMD to epigenetic silence

T Kelly, P Jones - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
For many decades, cancer research focused on genetic changes that led to tumorigenesis.
However, it is now established that epigenetics also plays an important role in cancer …