Interplay between chromatin marks in development and disease

SM Janssen, MC Lorincz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation (DNAme) and histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) have
important roles in transcriptional regulation. Although many reports have characterized the …

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 …

The interplay between DNA and histone methylation: molecular mechanisms and disease implications

Y Li, X Chen, C Lu - EMBO reports, 2021 - embopress.org
Methylation of cytosine in CpG dinucleotides and histone lysine and arginine residues is a
chromatin modification that critically contributes to the regulation of genome integrity …

Decoding the function of bivalent chromatin in development and cancer

D Kumar, S Cinghu, AJ Oldfield, P Yang… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
Bivalent chromatin is characterized by the simultaneous presence of H3K4me3 and
H3K27me3, histone modifications generally associated with transcriptionally active and …

Variant PRC1 complex-dependent H2A ubiquitylation drives PRC2 recruitment and polycomb domain formation

NP Blackledge, AM Farcas, T Kondo, HW King… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Chromatin modifying activities inherent to polycomb repressive complexes PRC1 and PRC2
play an essential role in gene regulation, cellular differentiation, and development. However …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the relationship between DNA methylation and histone lysine methylation

NR Rose, RJ Klose - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene Regulatory …, 2014 - Elsevier
DNA methylation acts as an epigenetic modification in vertebrate DNA. Recently it has
become clear that the DNA and histone lysine methylation systems are highly interrelated …

Specific or not specific recruitment of DNMTs for DNA methylation, an epigenetic dilemma

E Hervouet, P Peixoto, R Delage-Mourroux… - Clinical …, 2018 - Springer
Our current view of DNA methylation processes is strongly moving: First, even if it was
generally admitted that DNMT3A and DNMT3B are associated with de novo methylation and …

Epigenetic mechanisms in inflammation

D Bayarsaihan - Journal of dental research, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Epigenetic modifications occur in response to environmental changes and play a
fundamental role in gene expression following environmental stimuli. Major epigenetic …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the interplay between CpG island-associated gene promoters and H3K4 methylation

AL Hughes, JR Kelley, RJ Klose - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2020 - Elsevier
The precise regulation of gene transcription is required to establish and maintain cell type-
specific gene expression programs during multicellular development. In addition to …

Impact of DNA methylation on 3D genome structure

D Buitrago, M Labrador, JP Arcon, R Lema… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Determining the effect of DNA methylation on chromatin structure and function in higher
organisms is challenging due to the extreme complexity of epigenetic regulation. We studied …