[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation: Precise modulation of chromatin structure and dynamics

S Li, Y Peng, AR Panchenko - Current opinion in structural biology, 2022 - Elsevier
DNA methylation plays a vital role in epigenetic regulation in both plants and animals, and
typically occurs at the 5-carbon position of the cytosine pyrimidine ring within the CpG …

CRISPR/dCas9-based systems: mechanisms and applications in plant sciences

CKS Karlson, SN Mohd-Noor, N Nolte, BC Tan - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
RNA-guided genomic transcriptional regulation tools, namely clustered regularly
interspaced short palindromic repeats interference (CRISPRi) and CRISPR-mediated gene …

Evidence that direct inhibition of transcription factor binding is the prevailing mode of gene and repeat repression by DNA methylation

S Kaluscha, S Domcke, C Wirbelauer, MB Stadler… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cytosine methylation efficiently silences CpG-rich regulatory regions of genes and repeats
in mammalian genomes. To what extent this entails direct inhibition of transcription factor …

Prediction of protein–ligand binding affinity from sequencing data with interpretable machine learning

HT Rube, C Rastogi, S Feng, JF Kribelbauer, A Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Protein–ligand interactions are increasingly profiled at high throughput using affinity
selection and massively parallel sequencing. However, these assays do not provide the …

Associations between DNA methylation and gene regulation depend on chromatin accessibility during transgenerational plasticity

SN Bogan, ME Strader, GE Hofmann - BMC biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Epigenetic processes are proposed to be a mechanism regulating gene
expression during phenotypic plasticity. However, environmentally induced changes in DNA …

Epigenetic gene regulation in plants and its potential applications in crop improvement

H Zhang, JK Zhu - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
DNA methylation, also known as 5-methylcytosine, is an epigenetic modification that has
crucial functions in plant growth, development and adaptation. The cellular DNA methylation …

Dynamic changes in whole genome DNA methylation, chromatin and gene expression during mouse lens differentiation

W Chang, Y Zhao, D Rayêe, Q Xie, M Suzuki… - Epigenetics & …, 2023 - Springer
Background Cellular differentiation is marked by temporally and spatially coordinated gene
expression regulated at multiple levels. DNA methylation represents a universal mechanism …

Structural insights into glucocorticoid receptor function

F Frank, EA Ortlund, X Liu - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2021 - portlandpress.com
The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a steroid hormone-activated transcription factor that
binds to various glucocorticoid response elements to up-or down-regulate the transcription …

Zinc metalloproteins in epigenetics and their crosstalk

AP Yusuf, MB Abubakar, I Malami, KG Ibrahim… - Life, 2021 - mdpi.com
More than half a century ago, zinc was established as an essential micronutrient for normal
human physiology. In silico data suggest that about 10% of the human proteome potentially …

Environmental adaptation of genetically uniform organisms with the help of epigenetic mechanisms—an insightful perspective on ecoepigenetics

G Vogt - Epigenomes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Organisms adapt to different environments by selection of the most suitable phenotypes from
the standing genetic variation or by phenotypic plasticity, the ability of single genotypes to …