Epigenetic dysregulations in merkel cell polyomavirus-driven merkel cell carcinoma

JC Rotondo, C Mazziotta, C Lanzillotti… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) is a small DNA virus with oncogenic potential. MCPyV is
the causative agent of Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC), a rare but aggressive tumor of the …

The role of histone post-translational modifications in merkel cell carcinoma

C Mazziotta, C Lanzillotti, R Gafà, A Touzé… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC) is a rare but highly aggressive form of non–melanoma skin
cancer whose 5-year survival rate is 63%. Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV), a small DNA …

Lineage-specific canonical and non-canonical activity of EZH2 in advanced prostate cancer subtypes

VB Venkadakrishnan, AG Presser, R Singh… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) is a histone methyltransferase and emerging
therapeutic target that is overexpressed in most castration-resistant prostate cancers and …

[HTML][HTML] Embryonic stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles maintain ESC stemness by activating FAK

YH Hur, S Feng, KF Wilson, RA Cerione… - Developmental cell, 2021 - cell.com
It is critical that epiblast cells within blastocyst-stage embryos receive the necessary
regulatory cues to remain pluripotent until the appropriate time when they are stimulated to …

Editing the epigenome: reshaping the genomic landscape

L Holtzman, CA Gersbach - Annual review of genomics and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The eukaryotic epigenome has an instrumental role in determining and maintaining cell
identity and function. Epigenetic components such as DNA methylation, histone tail …

Sex-specific chromatin remodelling safeguards transcription in germ cells

TC Huang, YF Wang, E Vazquez-Ferrer, I Theofel… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Stability of the epigenetic landscape underpins maintenance of the cell-type-specific
transcriptional profile. As one of the main repressive epigenetic systems, DNA methylation …

Joint single-cell multiomic analysis in Wnt3a induced asymmetric stem cell division

Z Sun, Y Tang, Y Zhang, Y Fang, J Jia, W Zeng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Wnt signaling usually functions through a spatial gradient. Localized Wnt3a signaling can
induce the asymmetric division of mouse embryonic stem cells, where proximal daughter …

Single-cell profiling of transcriptome and histone modifications with EpiDamID

FJ Rang, KL de Luca, SS de Vries, C Valdes-Quezada… - Molecular Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Recent advances in single-cell sequencing technologies have enabled simultaneous
measurement of multiple cellular modalities, but the combined detection of histone post …

Open chromatin, epigenetic plasticity, and nuclear organization in pluripotency

S Schlesinger, E Meshorer - Developmental Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Pluripotent embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are considered to have open and accessible
chromatin relative to differentiated cells. However, as many studies supporting these …

Nucleosome turnover regulates histone methylation patterns over the genome

EJ Chory, JP Calarco, NA Hathaway, O Bell, DS Neel… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Recent studies have indicated that nucleosome turnover is rapid, occurring several times
per cell cycle. To access the effect of nucleosome turnover on the epigenetic landscape, we …