Cis-regulatory sequences in plants: their importance, discovery, and future challenges

RJ Schmitz, E Grotewold, M Stam - The plant cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The identification and characterization of cis-regulatory DNA sequences and how they
function to coordinate responses to developmental and environmental cues is of paramount …

Regulation, functions and transmission of bivalent chromatin during mammalian development

TA Macrae, J Fothergill-Robinson… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Cells differentiate and progress through development guided by a dynamic chromatin
landscape that mediates gene expression programmes. During development, mammalian …

Symmetric inheritance of parental histones governs epigenome maintenance and embryonic stem cell identity

A Wenger, A Biran, N Alcaraz, A Redó-Riveiro… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Modified parental histones are segregated symmetrically to daughter DNA strands during
replication and can be inherited through mitosis. How this may sustain the epigenome and …

Relationships among smoking, oxidative stress, inflammation, macromolecular damage, and cancer

AW Caliri, S Tommasi, A Besaratinia - Mutation Research/Reviews in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Smoking is a major risk factor for a variety of diseases, including cancer and immune-
mediated inflammatory diseases. Tobacco smoke contains a mixture of chemicals, including …

CRISPR technologies for precise epigenome editing

M Nakamura, Y Gao, AA Dominguez, LS Qi - Nature Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
The epigenome involves a complex set of cellular processes governing genomic activity.
Dissecting this complexity necessitates the development of tools capable of specifically …

Epigenetic regulation in human cancer: the potential role of epi-drug in cancer therapy

Y Lu, YT Chan, HY Tan, S Li, N Wang, Y Feng - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Epigenetics is dynamic and heritable modifications to the genome that occur independently
of DNA sequence. It requires interactions cohesively with various enzymes and other …

COMPASS and SWI/SNF complexes in development and disease

BK Cenik, A Shilatifard - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Trithorax group (TrxG) of proteins is a large family of epigenetic regulators that
form multiprotein complexes to counteract repressive developmental gene expression …

Tumor microenvironmental signals reshape chromatin landscapes to limit the functional potential of exhausted T cells

BR Ford, PDA Vignali, NL Rittenhouse… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Response rates to immunotherapy in solid tumors remain low due in part to the elevated
prevalence of terminally exhausted T cells, a hypofunctional differentiation state induced …

Decoding the function of bivalent chromatin in development and cancer

D Kumar, S Cinghu, AJ Oldfield, P Yang… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
Bivalent chromatin is characterized by the simultaneous presence of H3K4me3 and
H3K27me3, histone modifications generally associated with transcriptionally active and …

Epigenetic dynamics during capacitation of naïve human pluripotent stem cells

J Agostinho de Sousa, CW Wong, I Dunkel… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are of fundamental relevance in regenerative
medicine. Naïve hPSCs hold promise to overcome some of the limitations of conventional …