The chromatin signatures of enhancers and their dynamic regulation

A Barral, J Déjardin - Nucleus, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Enhancers are cis-regulatory elements that can stimulate gene expression from distance,
and drive precise spatiotemporal gene expression profiles during development. Functional …

Epigenetic causes of overgrowth syndromes

JC Lui, J Baron - The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Human overgrowth disorders are characterized by excessive prenatal and/or postnatal
growth of various tissues. These disorders often present with tall stature, macrocephaly …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatin regulation of transcriptional enhancers and cell fate by the Sotos syndrome gene NSD1

Z Sun, Y Lin, MT Islam, R Koche, L Hedehus, D Liu… - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Nuclear receptor-binding SET-domain protein 1 (NSD1), a methyltransferase that catalyzes
H3K36me2, is essential for mammalian development and is frequently dysregulated in …

NSD1 deposits histone H3 lysine 36 dimethylation to pattern non-CG DNA methylation in neurons

N Hamagami, DY Wu, AW Clemens, SA Nettles, A Li… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
During postnatal development, the DNA methyltransferase DNMT3A deposits high levels of
non-CG cytosine methylation in neurons. This methylation is critical for transcriptional …

Establishment of paternal methylation imprint at the H19/Igf2 imprinting control region

J Liao, S Song, S Gusscott, Z Fu, I VanderKolk… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The insulator model explains the workings of the H19 and Igf2 imprinted domain in the
soma, where insulation of the Igf2 promoter from its enhancers occurs by CTCF in the …

Dynamic antagonism between key repressive pathways maintains the placental epigenome

R Weigert, S Hetzel, N Bailly, C Haggerty, IA Ilik… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
DNA and Histone 3 Lysine 27 methylation typically function as repressive modifications and
operate within distinct genomic compartments. In mammals, the majority of the genome is …

Characterizing crosstalk in epigenetic signaling to understand disease physiology

JK Lempiäinen, BA Garcia - Biochemical Journal, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Epigenetics, the inheritance of genomic information independent of DNA sequence, controls
the interpretation of extracellular and intracellular signals in cell homeostasis, proliferation …

Breast cancer plasticity is restricted by a LATS1-NCOR1 repressive axis

Y Aylon, N Furth, G Mallel, G Friedlander… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Breast cancer, the most frequent cancer in women, is generally classified into several
distinct histological and molecular subtypes. However, single-cell technologies have …

ISWI chromatin remodeling complexes recruit NSD2 and H3K36me2 in pericentromeric heterochromatin

N Goto, K Suke, N Yonezawa, H Nishihara… - Journal of Cell …, 2024 - rupress.org
Histone H3 lysine36 dimethylation (H3K36me2) is generally distributed in the gene body
and euchromatic intergenic regions. However, we found that H3K36me2 is enriched in …

Methylation of lysine 36 on histone H3 is required to control transposon activities in somatic cells

H Lindehell, YB Schwartz, J Larsson - Life Science Alliance, 2023 - life-science-alliance.org
Transposable elements constitute a substantial portion of most eukaryotic genomes and
their activity can lead to developmental and neuronal defects. In the germline, transposon …