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 …

DNA methylation in mammals

E Li, Y Zhang - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
DNA methylation is one of the best characterized epigenetic modifications. In mammals it is
involved in various biological processes including the silencing of transposable elements …

Transgenerational inheritance: how impacts to the epigenetic and genetic information of parents affect offspring health

MJ Xavier, SD Roman, RJ Aitken… - Human reproduction …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND A defining feature of sexual reproduction is the transmission of genomic
information from both parents to the offspring. There is now compelling evidence that the …

A unique regulatory phase of DNA methylation in the early mammalian embryo

ZD Smith, MM Chan, TS Mikkelsen, H Gu, A Gnirke… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
DNA methylation is highly dynamic during mammalian embryogenesis. It is broadly
accepted that the paternal genome is actively depleted of 5-methylcytosine at fertilization …

Active and passive demethylation of male and female pronuclear DNA in the mammalian zygote

F Guo, X Li, D Liang, T Li, P Zhu, H Guo, X Wu, L Wen… - Cell stem cell, 2014 - cell.com
The epigenomes of mammalian sperm and oocytes, characterized by gamete-specific 5-
methylcytosine (5mC) patterns, are reprogrammed during early embryogenesis to establish …

DNA methylation patterns and epigenetic memory

A Bird - Genes & development, 2002 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The character of a cell is defined by its constituent proteins, which are the result of specific
patterns of gene expression. Crucial determinants of gene expression patterns are DNA …

Active DNA demethylation: many roads lead to Rome

SC Wu, Y Zhang - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2010 - nature.com
DNA methylation is one of the best-characterized epigenetic modifications and has been
implicated in numerous biological processes, including transposable element silencing …

[HTML][HTML] DNA demethylation dynamics

N Bhutani, DM Burns, HM Blau - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
The discovery of cytosine hydroxymethylation (5hmC) suggested a simple means of
demethylating DNA and activating genes. Further experiments, however, unearthed an …

Mechanisms and functions of Tet protein-mediated 5-methylcytosine oxidation

H Wu, Y Zhang - Genes & development, 2011 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Ten-eleven translocation 1–3 (Tet1–3) proteins have recently been discovered in
mammalian cells to be members of a family of DNA hydroxylases that possess enzymatic …

Epigenetic reprogramming in mammalian development

W Reik, W Dean, J Walter - Science, 2001 - science.org
DNA methylation is a major epigenetic modification of the genome that regulates crucial
aspects of its function. Genomic methylation patterns in somatic differentiated cells are …