Roles and regulation of histone methylation in animal development

A Jambhekar, A Dhall, Y Shi - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Histone methylation can occur at various sites in histone proteins, primarily on lysine and
arginine residues, and it can be governed by multiple positive and negative regulators, even …

Epigenetics and beyond: targeting writers of protein lysine methylation to treat disease

KP Bhat, H Ümit Kaniskan, J Jin… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein lysine methylation is a crucial post-translational modification that regulates the
functions of both histone and non-histone proteins. Deregulation of the enzymes or 'writers' …

Many lncRNAs, 5'UTRs, and pseudogenes are translated and some are likely to express functional proteins

Z Ji, R Song, A Regev, K Struhl - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Using a new bioinformatic method to analyze ribosome profiling data, we show that 40% of
lncRNAs and pseudogene RNAs expressed in human cells are translated. In addition,~ 35 …

CTCF and cohesin in genome folding and transcriptional gene regulation

M Merkenschlager, EP Nora - Annual review of genomics and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Genome function, replication, integrity, and propagation rely on the dynamic structural
organization of chromosomes during the cell cycle. Genome folding in interphase provides …

A map of constrained coding regions in the human genome

JM Havrilla, BS Pedersen, RM Layer, AR Quinlan - Nature genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Deep catalogs of genetic variation from thousands of humans enable the detection of
intraspecies constraint by identifying coding regions with a scarcity of variation. While …

Covalent histone modifications—miswritten, misinterpreted and mis-erased in human cancers

P Chi, CD Allis, GG Wang - Nature reviews cancer, 2010 - nature.com
Post-translational modification of histones provides an important regulatory platform for
processes such as gene transcription and DNA damage repair. It has become increasingly …

Recombination centres and the orchestration of V (D) J recombination

DG Schatz, Y Ji - Nature reviews immunology, 2011 - nature.com
The initiation of V (D) J recombination by the recombination activating gene 1 (RAG1) and
RAG2 proteins is carefully orchestrated to ensure that antigen receptor gene assembly …

Advances in research of fish immune-relevant genes: a comparative overview of innate and adaptive immunity in teleosts

L Zhu, L Nie, G Zhu, L Xiang, J Shao - Developmental & Comparative …, 2013 - Elsevier
Fish is considered to be an important model in comparative immunology studies because it
is a representative population of lower vertebrates serving as an essential link to early …

Dynamics of DNA damage response proteins at DNA breaks: a focus on protein modifications

SE Polo, SP Jackson - Genes & development, 2011 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Genome integrity is constantly monitored by sophisticated cellular networks, collectively
termed the DNA damage response (DDR). A common feature of DDR proteins is their …

V (D) J recombination: mechanisms of initiation

DG Schatz, PC Swanson - Annual review of genetics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
V (D) J recombination assembles immunoglobulin and T cell receptor genes during
lymphocyte development through a series of carefully orchestrated DNA breakage and …