Methods and applications for single-cell and spatial multi-omics

K Vandereyken, A Sifrim, B Thienpont… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The joint analysis of the genome, epigenome, transcriptome, proteome and/or metabolome
from single cells is transforming our understanding of cell biology in health and disease. In …

DNA methylation cancer biomarkers: translation to the clinic

WJ Locke, D Guanzon, C Ma, YJ Liew… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Carcinogenesis is accompanied by widespread DNA methylation changes within the cell.
These changes are characterized by a globally hypomethylated genome with focal …

Spatial genomics enables multi-modal study of clonal heterogeneity in tissues

T Zhao, ZD Chiang, JW Morriss, LM LaFave… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The state and behaviour of a cell can be influenced by both genetic and environmental
factors. In particular, tumour progression is determined by underlying genetic aberrations …

Enzymatic methyl sequencing detects DNA methylation at single-base resolution from picograms of DNA

R Vaisvila, VKC Ponnaluri, Z Sun… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
Bisulfite sequencing detects 5mC and 5hmC at single-base resolution. However, bisulfite
treatment damages DNA, which results in fragmentation, DNA loss, and biased sequencing …

Biological roles of RNA m5C modification and its implications in Cancer immunotherapy

H Song, J Zhang, B Liu, J Xu, B Cai, H Yang… - Biomarker …, 2022 - Springer
Epigenetics including DNA and RNA modifications have always been the hotspot field of life
sciences in the post-genome era. Since the first mapping of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) and …

Rapid and accurate alignment of nucleotide conversion sequencing reads with HISAT-3N

Y Zhang, C Park, C Bennett, M Thornton… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
Sequencing technologies using nucleotide conversion techniques such as cytosine to
thymine in bisulfite-seq and thymine to cytosine in SLAM seq are powerful tools to explore …

The DNA methylation landscape in cancer

K Skvortsova, C Stirzaker, P Taberlay - Essays in biochemistry, 2019 - portlandpress.com
As one of the most abundant and well-studied epigenetic modifications, DNA methylation
plays an essential role in normal development and cellular biology. Global alterations to the …

Simultaneous sequencing of genetic and epigenetic bases in DNA

J Füllgrabe, WS Gosal, P Creed, S Liu, CK Lumby… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
DNA comprises molecular information stored in genetic and epigenetic bases, both of which
are vital to our understanding of biology. Most DNA sequencing approaches address either …

Joint single-cell profiling resolves 5mC and 5hmC and reveals their distinct gene regulatory effects

EB Fabyanic, P Hu, Q Qiu, KN Berríos… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Oxidative modification of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) by ten-eleven translocation (TET)
DNA dioxygenases generates 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC), the most abundant form of …

Active DNA demethylation promotes cell fate specification and the DNA damage response

D Wang, W Wu, E Callen, R Pavani, N Zolnerowich… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Neurons harbor high levels of single-strand DNA breaks (SSBs) that are targeted to
neuronal enhancers, but the source of this endogenous damage remains unclear. Using two …