The DNA methyltransferase family: a versatile toolkit for epigenetic regulation

F Lyko - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
The DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) family comprises a conserved set of DNA-modifying
enzymes that have a central role in epigenetic gene regulation. Recent studies have shown …

Functions and mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance in animals

K Skvortsova, N Iovino, O Bogdanović - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
The idea that epigenetic determinants such as DNA methylation, histone modifications or
RNA can be passed to the next generation through meiotic products (gametes) is long …

Dnmt2 mediates intergenerational transmission of paternally acquired metabolic disorders through sperm small non-coding RNAs

Y Zhang, X Zhang, J Shi, F Tuorto, X Li, Y Liu… - Nature cell …, 2018 - nature.com
The discovery of RNAs (for example, messenger RNAs, non-coding RNAs) in sperm has
opened the possibility that sperm may function by delivering additional paternal information …

Specific or not specific recruitment of DNMTs for DNA methylation, an epigenetic dilemma

E Hervouet, P Peixoto, R Delage-Mourroux… - Clinical …, 2018 - Springer
Our current view of DNA methylation processes is strongly moving: First, even if it was
generally admitted that DNMT3A and DNMT3B are associated with de novo methylation and …

Tet2 promotes pathogen infection-induced myelopoiesis through mRNA oxidation

Q Shen, Q Zhang, Y Shi, Q Shi, Y Jiang, Y Gu, Z Li, X Li… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Varieties of RNA modification form the epitranscriptome for post-transcriptional regulation. 5-
Methylcytosine (5-mC) is a sparse RNA modification in messenger RNA (mRNA) under …

The role of RNA modifications in the regulation of tRNA cleavage

SM Lyons, MM Fay, P Ivanov - FEBS letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Transfer RNA (tRNA) have been harbingers of many paradigms in RNA biology. They are
among the first recognized noncoding RNA (ncRNA) playing fundamental roles in RNA …

Sleep deprivation and the epigenome

ME Gaine, S Chatterjee, T Abel - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Sleep deprivation disrupts the lives of millions of people every day and has a profound
impact on the molecular biology of the brain. These effects begin as changes within a …

The emerging field of epitranscriptomics in neurodevelopmental and neuronal disorders

MT Angelova, DG Dimitrova, N Dinges… - … in bioengineering and …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Analogous to DNA methylation and histone modifications, RNA modifications represent a
novel layer of regulation of gene expression. The dynamic nature and increasing number of …

Signatures of DNA methylation across insects suggest reduced DNA methylation levels in Holometabola

P Provataris, K Meusemann, O Niehuis… - Genome biology and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
It has been experimentally shown that DNA methylation is involved in the regulation of gene
expression and the silencing of transposable element activity in eukaryotes. The variable …

Epigenetic control of gene regulation during development and disease: A view from the retina

X Corso-Díaz, C Jaeger, V Chaitankar… - Progress in retinal and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Complex biological processes, such as organogenesis and homeostasis, are stringently
regulated by genetic programs that are fine-tuned by epigenetic factors to establish cell fates …