Staying true to yourself: mechanisms of DNA methylation maintenance in mammals

N Petryk, S Bultmann, T Bartke… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is essential to development and cellular physiology in mammals. Faulty
DNA methylation is frequently observed in human diseases like cancer and neurological …

The GCN5: its biological functions and therapeutic potentials

ME Haque, M Jakaria, M Akther, DY Cho… - Clinical …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
General control non-depressible 5 (GCN5) or lysine acetyltransferase 2A (KAT2A) is one of
the most highly studied histone acetyltransferases. It acts as both histone acetyltransferase …

Context-dependent CpG methylation directs cell-specific binding of transcription factor ZBTB38

C Marchal, PA Defossez, B Miotto - Epigenetics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT DNA methylation on CpGs regulates transcription in mammals, both by
decreasing the binding of methylation-repelled factors and by increasing the binding of …

[HTML][HTML] A novel bioinformatic approach reveals cooperation between Cancer/Testis genes in basal-like breast tumors

M Laisné, B Rodgers, S Benlamara, J Wicinski… - Oncogene, 2024 - nature.com
Breast cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer in women worldwide. Within breast
tumors, the basal-like subtype has the worst prognosis, prompting the need for new tools to …

Histone H3K9 methyltransferase SETDB1 augments invadopodia formation to promote tumor metastasis

S Ueshima, J Fang - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is one of leading causes of cancer-related mortality
worldwide, which harbors various accumulated genetic and epigenetic abnormalities …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale chromatin rearrangements in cancer

K Yamaguchi, X Chen, A Oji, I Hiratani, PA Defossez - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cancers have many genetic mutations such as nucleotide changes,
deletions, amplifications, and chromosome gains or losses. Some of these genetic …

Discovery of multi-state gene cluster switches determining the adaptive mitochondrial and metabolic landscape of breast cancer

M Menegollo, RB Bentham, T Henriques, S Qi Ng… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Adaptive metabolic switches are proposed to underlie conversions between cellular states
during normal development as well as in cancer evolution, where they represent important …

A genome-wide knock-out screen for actors of epigenetic silencing reveals new regulators of germline genes and 2-cell like cell state

N Gupta, L Yakhou, JR Albert, F Miura, L Ferry, O Kirsh… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Epigenetic mechanisms are essential to establish and safeguard cellular identities in
mammals. They dynamically regulate the expression of genes, transposable elements, and …

Cancer/Testis genes are predictive of breast tumor subtypes

M Laisné, S Benlamara, A Nicolas, L Djerroudi… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Breast cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer in women worldwide. Within breast
tumors, the basal-like subtype has the worst prognosis and no dedicated therapy, therefore …

[HTML][HTML] Aberrant activation of five embryonic stem cell-specific genes robustly predicts a high risk of relapse in breast cancers

E Jacquet, F Chuffart, AL Vitte, E Nika, M Mousseau… - BMC genomics, 2023 - Springer
Background In breast cancer, as in all cancers, genetic and epigenetic deregulations can
result in out-of-context expressions of a set of normally silent tissue-specific genes. The …