Intergenerational and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in animals

MF Perez, B Lehner - Nature cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Animals transmit not only DNA but also other molecules, such as RNA, proteins and
metabolites, to their progeny via gametes. It is currently unclear to what extent these …

Epigenetic regulation of ageing: linking environmental inputs to genomic stability

BA Benayoun, EA Pollina, A Brunet - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2015 - nature.com
Ageing is affected by both genetic and non-genetic factors. Here, we review the chromatin-
based epigenetic changes that occur during ageing, the role of chromatin modifiers in …

Methionine metabolism and methyltransferases in the regulation of aging and lifespan extension across species

AA Parkhitko, P Jouandin, SE Mohr, N Perrimon - Aging cell, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Methionine restriction (MetR) extends lifespan across different species and exerts beneficial
effects on metabolic health and inflammatory responses. In contrast, certain cancer cells …

A histone methylation network regulates transgenerational epigenetic memory in C. elegans

EL Greer, SE Beese-Sims, E Brookes, R Spadafora… - Cell reports, 2014 - cell.com
How epigenetic information is transmitted from generation to generation remains largely
unknown. Deletion of the C. elegans histone H3 lysine 4 dimethyl (H3K4me2) demethylase …

Histone modifications as an intersection between diet and longevity

D Molina-Serrano, D Kyriakou, A Kirmizis - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Histone modifications are key epigenetic regulators that control chromatin structure and
gene transcription, thereby impacting on various important cellular phenotypes. Over the …

Tri-methylation of histone H3 lysine 4 facilitates gene expression in ageing cells

C Cruz, M Della Rosa, C Krueger, Q Gao, D Horkai… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Transcription of protein coding genes is accompanied by recruitment of COMPASS to
promoter-proximal chromatin, which methylates histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) to form …

A histone demethylase links the loss of plasticity to nongenetic inheritance and morphological change

NA Levis, EJ Ragsdale - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Plasticity is a widespread feature of development, enabling phenotypic change based on the
environment. Although the evolutionary loss of plasticity has been linked both theoretically …

Genome‐wide association and environmental suppression of the mortal germline phenotype of wild C. elegans

L Frézal, M Saglio, G Zhang, L Noble, A Richaud… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
The animal germline lineage needs to be maintained along generations. However, some
Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolates display a mortal germline phenotype, leading to …

The KDM5 family of histone demethylases as targets in oncology drug discovery

PB Rasmussen, P Staller - Epigenomics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
There is growing evidence for a causal role of the KDM5 family of histone demethylases in
human cancer. In particular, KDM5A (JARID1A/RBP2) and KDM5B (JARID1B/PLU1) …

Non-genomic transmission of longevity between generations: potential mechanisms and evidence across species

AM Vaiserman, AK Koliada, RL Jirtle - Epigenetics & Chromatin, 2017 - Springer
Accumulating animal and human data indicate that environmental exposures experienced
during sensitive developmental periods may strongly influence risk of adult disease …