Regulation, functions and transmission of bivalent chromatin during mammalian development

TA Macrae, J Fothergill-Robinson… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Cells differentiate and progress through development guided by a dynamic chromatin
landscape that mediates gene expression programmes. During development, mammalian …

Methylation across the central dogma in health and diseases: new therapeutic strategies

R Liu, E Zhao, H Yu, C Yuan, MN Abbas… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
The proper transfer of genetic information from DNA to RNA to protein is essential for cell-
fate control, development, and health. Methylation of DNA, RNAs, histones, and non-histone …

Tumor microenvironmental signals reshape chromatin landscapes to limit the functional potential of exhausted T cells

BR Ford, PDA Vignali, NL Rittenhouse… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Response rates to immunotherapy in solid tumors remain low due in part to the elevated
prevalence of terminally exhausted T cells, a hypofunctional differentiation state induced …

A multiomic atlas of the aging hippocampus reveals molecular changes in response to environmental enrichment

RF Pérez, P Tezanos, A Peñarroya… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Aging involves the deterioration of organismal function, leading to the emergence of multiple
pathologies. Environmental stimuli, including lifestyle, can influence the trajectory of this …

Stimulating Wnt signaling reveals context-dependent genetic effects on gene regulation in primary human neural progenitors

N Matoba, BD Le, JM Valone, JM Wolter, JT Mory… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Gene regulatory effects have been difficult to detect at many non-coding loci associated with
brain-related traits, likely because some genetic variants have distinct functions in specific …

Decoding the spatial chromatin organization and dynamic epigenetic landscapes of macrophage cells during differentiation and immune activation

D Lin, W Xu, P Hong, C Wu, Z Zhang, S Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Immunocytes dynamically reprogram their gene expression profiles during differentiation
and immunoresponse. However, the underlying mechanism remains elusive. Here, we …

Unveiling Alterations of Epigenetic Modifications and Chromatin Architecture Leading to Lipid Metabolic Reprogramming during the Evolutionary Trastuzumab …

N Duan, Y Hua, X Yan, Y He, T Zeng, J Gong… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Secondary trastuzumab resistance represents an evolutionary adaptation of HER2‐positive
breast cancer during anti‐HER2 treatment. Most current studies have tended to prioritize …

METTL14 regulates chromatin bivalent domains in mouse embryonic stem cells

M Mu, X Li, L Dong, J Wang, Q Cai, Y Hu, D Wang… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Summary METTL14 (methyltransferase-like 14) is an RNA-binding protein that partners with
METTL3 to mediate N 6-methyladenosine (m 6 A) methylation. Recent studies identified a …

Intragenic CpG islands and their impact on gene regulation

JA Cain, B Montibus, RJ Oakey - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The mammalian genome is depleted in CG dinucleotides, except at protected regions where
they cluster as CpG islands (CGIs). CGIs are gene regulatory hubs and serve as …

Epigenetic dynamics during capacitation of naïve human pluripotent stem cells

J Agostinho de Sousa, CW Wong, I Dunkel… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are of fundamental relevance in regenerative
medicine. Naïve hPSCs hold promise to overcome some of the limitations of conventional …