DNMT3A in haematological malignancies

L Yang, R Rau, MA Goodell - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
DNA methylation patterns are disrupted in various malignancies, suggesting a role in the
development of cancer, but genetic aberrations directly linking the DNA methylation …

The role of mutations in epigenetic regulators in myeloid malignancies

AH Shih, O Abdel-Wahab, JP Patel… - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2012 - nature.com
Recent genomic studies have identified novel recurrent somatic mutations in patients with
myeloid malignancies, including myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), myelodysplastic …

Large-scale manipulation of promoter DNA methylation reveals context-specific transcriptional responses and stability

A de Mendoza, TV Nguyen, E Ford, D Poppe… - Genome Biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Cytosine DNA methylation is widely described as a transcriptional repressive
mark with the capacity to silence promoters. Epigenome engineering techniques enable …

DNMT3A-coordinated splicing governs the stem state switch towards differentiation in embryonic and haematopoietic stem cells

R Ramabadran, JH Wang, JM Reyes, AG Guzman… - Nature cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Upon stimulation by extrinsic stimuli, stem cells initiate a programme that enables
differentiation or self-renewal. Disruption of the stem state exit has catastrophic …

[HTML][HTML] DNMT3A Mutations in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

TJ Ley, L Ding, MJ Walter, MD McLellan… - … England Journal of …, 2010 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The genetic alterations responsible for an adverse outcome in most patients
with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are unknown. Methods Using massively parallel DNA …

[PDF][PDF] The R882H DNMT3A mutation associated with AML dominantly inhibits wild-type DNMT3A by blocking its ability to form active tetramers

DA Russler-Germain, DH Spencer, MA Young… - Cancer cell, 2014 - cell.com
Somatic mutations in DNMT3A, which encodes a de novo DNA methyltransferase, are found
in∼ 30% of normal karyotype acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cases. Most mutations are …

Structural basis for DNMT3A-mediated de novo DNA methylation

ZM Zhang, R Lu, P Wang, Y Yu, D Chen, L Gao, S Liu… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
DNA methylation by de novo DNA methyltransferases 3A (DNMT3A) and 3B (DNMT3B) at
cytosines is essential for genome regulation and development,. Dysregulation of this …

Structure of Dnmt3a bound to Dnmt3L suggests a model for de novo DNA methylation

D Jia, RZ Jurkowska, X Zhang, A Jeltsch, X Cheng - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Genetic imprinting, found in flowering plants and placental mammals, uses DNA methylation
to yield gene expression that is dependent on the parent of origin. DNA methyltransferase …

Cyclical DNA methylation of a transcriptionally active promoter

R Métivier, R Gallais, C Tiffoche, C Le Péron… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Processes that regulate gene transcription are directly under the influence of the genome
organization. The epigenome contains additional information that is not brought by DNA …

Allosteric control of mammalian DNA methyltransferases–a new regulatory paradigm

A Jeltsch, RZ Jurkowska - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In mammals, DNA methylation is introduced by the DNMT1, DNMT3A and DNMT3B
methyltransferases, which are all large multi-domain proteins containing a catalytic C …