The epigenetic basis of cellular heterogeneity

B Carter, K Zhao - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell sequencing-based methods for profiling gene transcript levels have revealed
substantial heterogeneity in expression levels among morphologically indistinguishable …

Active turnover of DNA methylation during cell fate decisions

A Parry, S Rulands, W Reik - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a key layer of epigenetic regulation. The deposition of methylation marks
relies on the catalytic activity of DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs), and their active removal …

SEdb 2.0: a comprehensive super-enhancer database of human and mouse

Y Wang, C Song, J Zhao, Y Zhang, X Zhao… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Super-enhancers (SEs) are cell-specific DNA cis-regulatory elements that can supervise the
transcriptional regulation processes of downstream genes. SEdb 2.0 (http://www. licpathway …

Functional characterization of SOX2 as an anticancer target

S Zhang, X **ong, Y Sun - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2020 - nature.com
SOX2 is a well-characterized pluripotent factor that is essential for stem cell self-renewal,
reprogramming, and homeostasis. The cellular levels of SOX2 are precisely regulated by a …

A comprehensive epigenome atlas reveals DNA methylation regulating skeletal muscle development

Y Yang, X Fan, J Yan, M Chen, M Zhu… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is important for the epigenetic regulation of gene expression and plays a
critical role in mammalian development. However, the dynamic regulation of genome-wide …

Mechanisms of DNA methylation regulatory function and crosstalk with histone lysine methylation

BM Tibben, SB Rothbart - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
DNA methylation is a well-studied epigenetic modification that has key roles in regulating
gene expression, maintaining genome integrity, and determining cell fate. Precisely how …

Imprecise DNMT1 activity coupled with neighbor-guided correction enables robust yet flexible epigenetic inheritance

Q Wang, G Yu, X Ming, W **a, X Xu, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The epigenome, including DNA methylation, is stably propagated during mitotic division.
However, single-cell clonal expansion produces heterogeneous methylomes, thus raising …

[HTML][HTML] Rebooting the epigenomes during mammalian early embryogenesis

W **a, W **e - Stem cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Upon fertilization, terminally differentiated gametes are transformed to a totipotent zygote,
which gives rise to an embryo. How parental epigenetic memories are inherited and …

Tumor detection by analysis of both symmetric-and hemi-methylation of plasma cell-free DNA

X Hua, H Zhou, HC Wu, J Furnari, CP Kotidis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Aberrant DNA methylation patterns have been used for cancer detection. However, DNA
hemi-methylation, present at about 10% CpG dinucleotides, has been less well studied …

[HTML][HTML] The emerging role of super enhancer-derived noncoding RNAs in human cancer

Y Wang, H Nie, X He, Z Liao, Y Zhou, J Zhou, C Ou - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Super enhancers (SEs) are large clusters of adjacent enhancers that drive the expression of
genes which regulate cellular identity; SE regions can be enriched with a high density of …