A comparative overview of epigenomic profiling methods

M Mehrmohamadi, MH Sepehri, N Nazer… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In the past decade, assays that profile different aspects of the epigenome have grown
exponentially in number and variation. However, standard guidelines for researchers to …

The evidence for functional non-CpG methylation in mammalian cells

V Patil, RL Ward, LB Hesson - Epigenetics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In mammalian genomes, the methylation of cytosine residues within CpG dinucleotides is
crucial to normal development and cell differentiation. However, methylation of cytosines in …

Critical evaluation of the Illumina MethylationEPIC BeadChip microarray for whole-genome DNA methylation profiling

R Pidsley, E Zotenko, TJ Peters, MG Lawrence… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Background In recent years the Illumina HumanMethylation450 (HM450) BeadChip has
provided a user-friendly platform to profile DNA methylation in human samples. However …

Direct detection of DNA methylation during single-molecule, real-time sequencing

BA Flusberg, DR Webster, JH Lee, KJ Travers… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
We describe the direct detection of DNA methylation, without bisulfite conversion, through
single-molecule, real-time (SMRT) sequencing. In SMRT sequencing, DNA polymerases …

The behaviour of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in bisulfite sequencing

Y Huang, WA Pastor, Y Shen, M Tahiliani, DR Liu… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background We recently showed that enzymes of the TET family convert 5-mC to 5-
hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) in DNA. 5-hmC is present at high levels in embryonic stem …

Methylation determines fibroblast activation and fibrogenesis in the kidney

W Bechtel, S McGoohan, EM Zeisberg, GA Müller… - Nature medicine, 2010 - nature.com
Fibrogenesis is a pathological wound repair process that fails to cease, even when the initial
insult has been removed. Fibroblasts are principal mediators of fibrosis, and fibroblasts from …

Quantitative comparison of DNA methylation assays for biomarker development and clinical applications

Nature biotechnology, 2016 - nature.com
DNA methylation patterns are altered in numerous diseases and often correlate with
clinically relevant information such as disease subtypes, prognosis and drug response. With …

Epigenetic transgenerational actions of vinclozolin on promoter regions of the sperm epigenome

C Guerrero-Bosagna, M Settles, B Lucker, MK Skinner - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Previous observations have demonstrated that embryonic exposure to the endocrine
disruptor vinclozolin during gonadal sex determination promotes transgenerational adult …

Effects of cytosine methylation on transcription factor binding sites

YA Medvedeva, AM Khamis, IV Kulakovskiy… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background DNA methylation in promoters is closely linked to downstream gene repression.
However, whether DNA methylation is a cause or a consequence of gene repression …

Examination of the specificity of DNA methylation profiling techniques towards 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine

SG Jin, S Kadam, GP Pfeifer - Nucleic acids research, 2010 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT DNA cytosine-5 methylation is a well-studied epigenetic pathway implicated in
gene expression control and disease pathogenesis. Different technologies have been …