DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease

ZD Smith, S Hetzel, A Meissner - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024‏ - nature.com
The DNA methylation field has matured from a phase of discovery and genomic
characterization to one seeking deeper functional understanding of how this modification …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The Polycomb repressive complex 2 deposits H3K27me3 and represses transposable elements in a broad range of eukaryotes

T Hisanaga, F Romani, S Wu, T Kowar, Y Wu… - Current Biology, 2023‏ - cell.com
The mobility of transposable elements (TEs) contributes to evolution of genomes. Their
uncontrolled activity causes genomic instability; therefore, expression of TEs is silenced by …

Sex differences in the intergenerational inheritance of metabolic traits

I Sandovici, DS Fernandez-Twinn, A Hufnagel… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Strong evidence suggests that early-life exposures to suboptimal environmental factors,
including those in utero, influence our long-term metabolic health. This has been termed …

Epigenetic resetting in the human germ line entails histone modification remodeling

WH Gruhn, WWC Tang, S Dietmann… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Epigenetic resetting in the mammalian germ line entails acute DNA demethylation, which
lays the foundation for gametogenesis, totipotency, and embryonic development. We …

Dot1l cooperates with Npm1 to repress endogenous retrovirus MERVL in embryonic stem cells

X Zhao, X Li, H Sun, X Zhao, T Gao, P Shi… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Dot1l is a histone methyltransferase without a SET domain and is responsible for H3K79
methylation, which marks active transcription. In contradiction, Dot1l also participates in …

WITHDRAWN: An OPA-F-Based Single-Valued Neutrosophic Fuzzy MARCOS Approach with Dombi Aggregation Operators for Evaluating Indoor Sex Work Risk in …

P Majumder, A Das, P Kaliyaperumal, T Senapati… - 2024‏ - Elsevier
WITHDRAWN: An OPA-F-Based Single-Valued Neutrosophic Fuzzy MARCOS Approach with
Dombi Aggregation Operators for Evaluating Indoor Sex Work Risk in the Economy …

PRC1-mediated epigenetic programming is required to generate the ovarian reserve

M Hu, YH Yeh, Y Munakata, H Abe, A Sakashita… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
The ovarian reserve defines the female reproductive lifespan, which in humans spans
decades due to robust maintenance of meiotic arrest in oocytes residing in primordial …

Epigenetic plasticity safeguards heterochromatin configuration in mammals

K Fukuda, T Shimi, C Shimura, T Ono… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Heterochromatin is a key architectural feature of eukaryotic chromosomes critical for cell
type-specific gene expression and genome stability. In the mammalian nucleus …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic mechanisms governing female and male germline development in mammals

K Shirane, M Lorincz - Sexual Development, 2022‏ - karger.com
Background: DNA methylation (DNAme) and histone posttranslational modifications (PTMs)
play an integral role in the transcriptional regulation of specific sets of genes and …