Epigenetics as a mediator of plasticity in cancer

AP Feinberg, A Levchenko - Science, 2023 - science.org
The concept of an epigenetic landscape describing potential cellular fates arising from
pluripotent cells, first advanced by Conrad Waddington, has evolved in light of experiments …

Smart-RRBS for single-cell methylome and transcriptome analysis

H Gu, AT Raman, X Wang, F Gaiti, R Chaligne… - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
The integration of DNA methylation and transcriptional state within single cells is of broad
interest. Several single-cell dual-and multi-omics approaches have been reported that …

DNA methyltransferases 3A and 3B target specific sequences during mouse gastrulation

Z Mukamel, A Lifshitz, M Mittnenzweig… - Nature structural & …, 2022 - nature.com
In mammalian embryos, DNA methylation is initialized to maximum levels in the epiblast by
the de novo DNA methyltransferases DNMT3A and DNMT3B before gastrulation diversifies …

[HTML][HTML] Donor T cell DNMT3a regulates alloreactivity in mouse models of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

YP Ktena, MA Koldobskiy, MI Barbato… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
DNA methyltransferase 3a (DNMT3a) is an important part of the epigenetic machinery that
stabilizes patterns of activated T cell responses. We hypothesized that donor T cell DNMT3a …

DNA methylation entropy is associated with DNA sequence features and developmental epigenetic divergence

Y Fang, Z Ji, W Zhou, J Abante… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Epigenetic information defines tissue identity and is largely inherited in development
through DNA methylation. While studied mostly for mean differences, methylation also …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating DNA methylation potential energy landscapes from nanopore sequencing data

J Abante, S Kambhampati, AP Feinberg, J Goutsias - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
High-throughput third-generation nanopore sequencing devices have enormous potential
for simultaneously observing epigenetic modifications in human cells over large regions of …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrogen sulfide facilitates reprogramming and trans-differentiation in 3D dermal fibroblast

EA Ostrakhovitch, S Akakura, S Tabibzadeh - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The efficiency of cell reprogramming in two-dimensional (2D) cultures is limited. Given that
cellular stemness is intimately related to microenvironmental changes, 3D cell cultures have …

Multi-tissue DNA methylation microarray signature is predictive of gene function

XR Roopnarinesingh, H Porter, C Giles, C Brown… - Epigenetics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background Transcriptional correlation networks derived from publicly available gene
expression microarrays have been previously shown to be predictive of known gene …

Uncovering Regulators of DNA Methylation in Human Embryonic Stem Cells

G Dixon - 2021 - search.proquest.com
DNA methylation is essential to mammalian development, and dysregulation can cause
serious pathological conditions. Key enzymes responsible for deposition and removal of …

Epigenome-Wide Meta-Analysis of Gene Function Prediction across Genomic Features

X Roopnarinesingh - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Gene function prediction has been shown to be a useful methodology for leveraging publicly-
available high-throughput datasets from open scientific repositories to identify previously …