Gene body methylation in cancer: molecular mechanisms and clinical applications

Q Wang, F Xiong, G Wu, W Liu, J Chen, B Wang… - Clinical …, 2022 - Springer
DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mechanism that regulates gene expression. To
date, most DNA methylation studies have focussed on CpG islands in the gene promoter …

Targeting HIF-2α in the tumor microenvironment: redefining the role of HIF-2α for solid cancer therapy

L Davis, M Recktenwald, E Hutt, S Fuller, M Briggs… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Hypoxia is defined as the inadequate supply of oxygen in tissues. Regions
of acute and chronic hypoxia are a universal feature of the tumor microenvironment and a …

Simultaneous profiling of 3D genome structure and DNA methylation in single human cells

DS Lee, C Luo, J Zhou, S Chandran, A Rivkin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Dynamic three-dimensional chromatin conformation is a critical mechanism for gene
regulation during development and disease. Despite this, profiling of three-dimensional …

G-quadruplex DNA structures in human stem cells and differentiation

KG Zyner, A Simeone, SM Flynn, C Doyle… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The establishment of cell identity during embryonic development involves the activation of
specific gene expression programmes and is underpinned by epigenetic factors including …

Orphan CpG islands amplify poised enhancer regulatory activity and determine target gene responsiveness

T Pachano, V Sánchez-Gaya, T Ealo, M Mariner-Faulí… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
CpG islands (CGIs) represent a widespread feature of vertebrate genomes, being
associated with~ 70% of all gene promoters. CGIs control transcription initiation by …

Intragenic CpG islands and their impact on gene regulation

JA Cain, B Montibus, RJ Oakey - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The mammalian genome is depleted in CG dinucleotides, except at protected regions where
they cluster as CpG islands (CGIs). CGIs are gene regulatory hubs and serve as …

[HTML][HTML] The critical role of histone lysine demethylase KDM2B in cancer

M Yan, X Yang, H Wang, Q Shao - American journal of …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The discovery of histone demethylases has revealed the dynamic nature of the regulation of
histone methylation. KDM2B is an important histone lysine demethylase that removes methyl …

Chromatin states shaped by an epigenetic code confer regenerative potential to the mouse liver

C Zhang, F Macchi, E Magnani, KC Sadler - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
We hypothesized that the highly controlled pattern of gene expression that is essential for
liver regeneration is encoded by an epigenetic code set in quiescent hepatocytes. Here we …

Hypermethylation of PDX1, EN2, and MSX1 predicts the prognosis of colorectal cancer

Y Lee, SH Dho, J Lee, JH Hwang, M Kim… - … & molecular medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Despite numerous observations regarding the relationship between DNA methylation
changes and cancer progression, only a few genes have been verified as diagnostic …

Integration of epigenetic mechanisms into non-genotoxic carcinogenicity hazard assessment: Focus on DNA methylation and histone modifications

D Desaulniers, P Vasseur, A Jacobs… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Epigenetics involves a series of mechanisms that entail histone and DNA covalent
modifications and non-coding RNAs, and that collectively contribute to programing cell …