[HTML][HTML] CpG and non-CpG methylation in epigenetic gene regulation and brain function

HS Jang, WJ Shin, JE Lee, JT Do - Genes, 2017 - mdpi.com
DNA methylation is a major epigenetic mark with important roles in genetic regulation.
Methylated cytosines are found primarily at CpG dinucleotides, but are also found at non …

[HTML][HTML] Mammalian non-CpG methylation: stem cells and beyond

SE Pinney - Biology, 2014 - mdpi.com
Although CpG dinucleotides remain the primary site for DNA methylation in mammals, there
is emerging evidence that DNA methylation at non-CpG sites (CpA, CpT and CpC) is not …

Distribution, recognition and regulation of non-CpG methylation in the adult mammalian brain

JU Guo, Y Su, JH Shin, J Shin, H Li, B Xie… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
DNA methylation has critical roles in the nervous system and has been traditionally
considered to be restricted to CpG dinucleotides in metazoan genomes. Here we show that …

The evidence for functional non-CpG methylation in mammalian cells

V Patil, RL Ward, LB Hesson - Epigenetics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In mammalian genomes, the methylation of cytosine residues within CpG dinucleotides is
crucial to normal development and cell differentiation. However, methylation of cytosines in …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic distribution and inter-sample variation of non-CpG methylation across human cell types

MJ Ziller, F Müller, J Liao, Y Zhang, H Gu, C Bock… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
DNA methylation plays an important role in development and disease. The primary sites of
DNA methylation in vertebrates are cytosines in the CpG dinucleotide context, which …

Differences in DNA methylation between human neuronal and glial cells are concentrated in enhancers and non-CpG sites

A Kozlenkov, P Roussos, A Timashpolsky… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We applied Illumina Human Methylation450K array to perform a genomic-scale
single-site resolution DNA methylation analysis in neuronal and nonneuronal (primarily …

The emergence of the brain non-CpG methylation system in vertebrates

A de Mendoza, D Poppe, S Buckberry… - Nature ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Mammalian brains feature exceptionally high levels of non-CpG DNA methylation alongside
the canonical form of CpG methylation. Non-CpG methylation plays a critical regulatory role …

Reading the unique DNA methylation landscape of the brain: Non-CpG methylation, hydroxymethylation, and MeCP2

B Kinde, HW Gabel, CS Gilbert… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
DNA methylation at CpG dinucleotides is an important epigenetic regulator common to
virtually all mammalian cell types, but recent evidence indicates that during early postnatal …

CpG methylation recruits sequence specific transcription factors essential for tissue specific gene expression

R Chatterjee, C Vinson - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2012 - Elsevier
CG methylation is an epigenetically inherited chemical modification of DNA found in plants
and animals. In mammals it is essential for accurate regulation of gene expression and …

Non-CG methylation in the human genome

Y He, JR Ecker - Annual review of genomics and human …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
DNA methylation is a chemical modification that occurs predominantly on CG dinucleotides
in mammalian genomes. However, recent studies have revealed that non-CG methylation …