NSD1-deposited H3K36me2 directs de novo methylation in the mouse male germline and counteracts Polycomb-associated silencing

K Shirane, F Miura, T Ito, MC Lorincz - Nature genetics, 2020 - nature.com
De novo DNA methylation (DNAme) in mammalian germ cells is dependent on DNMT3A
and DNMT3L. However, oocytes and spermatozoa show distinct patterns of DNAme. In …

DNMT3A-dependent DNA methylation is required for spermatogonial stem cells to commit to spermatogenesis

M Dura, A Teissandier, M Armand, J Barau… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation plays a critical role in spermatogenesis, as evidenced by the male sterility
of DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) mutant mice. Here, we report a division of labor in the …

KDM1B is a histone H3K4 demethylase required to establish maternal genomic imprints

DN Ciccone, H Su, S Hevi, F Gay, H Lei, J Bajko, G Xu… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Differential DNA methylation of the paternal and maternal alleles regulates the parental
origin-specific expression of imprinted genes in mammals,. The methylation imprints are …

rahu is a mutant allele of Dnmt3c, encoding a DNA methyltransferase homolog required for meiosis and transposon repression in the mouse male germline

D Jain, C Meydan, J Lange, C Claeys Bouuaert… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Transcriptional silencing by heritable cytosine-5 methylation is an ancient strategy to repress
transposable elements. It was previously thought that mammals possess four DNA …

Histone H3K36me2 and H3K36me3 form a chromatin platform essential for DNMT3A-dependent DNA methylation in mouse oocytes

S Yano, T Ishiuchi, S Abe, SH Namekawa… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Establishment of the DNA methylation landscape of mammalian oocytes, mediated by the
DNMT3A-DNMT3L complex, is crucial for reproduction and development. In mouse oocytes …

Meiotic catastrophe and retrotransposon reactivation in male germ cells lacking Dnmt3L

D Bourc'his, TH Bestor - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Mammalian genomes employ heritable cytosine methylation in the long-term silencing of
retrotransposons and genes subject to genomic imprinting and X chromosome inactivation …

Role of the Dnmt3 family in de novo methylation of imprinted and repetitive sequences during male germ cell development in the mouse

Y Kato, M Kaneda, K Hata, K Kumaki… - Human molecular …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is an important epigenetic modification regulating various biological
phenomena, including genomic imprinting and transposon silencing. It is known that …

Role of Tet1 in erasure of genomic imprinting

S Yamaguchi, L Shen, Y Liu, D Sendler, Y Zhang - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Genomic imprinting is an allele-specific gene expression system that is important for
mammalian development and function. The molecular basis of genomic imprinting is allele …

Loss of spermatogonia and wide-spread DNA methylation defects in newborn male mice deficient in DNMT3L

S La Salle, CC Oakes, OR Neaga, D Bourc'his… - BMC developmental …, 2007 - Springer
Background Formation of haploid spermatozoa capable of fertilization requires proper
programming of epigenetic information. Exactly how DNMT3L (DNA methyltransferase 3 …

Intragenic DNA methylation prevents spurious transcription initiation

F Neri, S Rapelli, A Krepelova, D Incarnato, C Parlato… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
In mammals, DNA methylation occurs mainly at CpG dinucleotides. Methylation of the
promoter suppresses gene expression, but the functional role of gene-body DNA …