Interplay between chromatin marks in development and disease

SM Janssen, MC Lorincz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation (DNAme) and histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) have
important roles in transcriptional regulation. Although many reports have characterized the …

The interplay between DNA and histone methylation: molecular mechanisms and disease implications

Y Li, X Chen, C Lu - EMBO reports, 2021 - embopress.org
Methylation of cytosine in CpG dinucleotides and histone lysine and arginine residues is a
chromatin modification that critically contributes to the regulation of genome integrity …

H3K36 methylation maintains cell identity by regulating opposing lineage programmes

MS Hoetker, M Yagi, B Di Stefano, J Langerman… - Nature cell …, 2023 - nature.com
The epigenetic mechanisms that maintain differentiated cell states remain incompletely
understood. Here we employed histone mutants to uncover a crucial role for H3K36 …

Structural and functional specificity of H3K36 methylation

UTF Lam, BKY Tan, JJX Poh, ES Chen - Epigenetics & Chromatin, 2022 - Springer
The methylation of histone H3 at lysine 36 (H3K36me) is essential for maintaining genomic
stability. Indeed, this methylation mark is essential for proper transcription, recombination …

H3K36 dimethylation shapes the epigenetic interaction landscape by directing repressive chromatin modifications in embryonic stem cells

H Chen, B Hu, C Horth, E Bareke… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Epigenetic modifications on the chromatin do not occur in isolation. Chromatin-associated
proteins and their modification products form a highly interconnected network, and …

NSD1 mediates antagonism between SWI/SNF and polycomb complexes and is required for transcriptional activation upon EZH2 inhibition

Y Drosos, JA Myers, B Xu, KM Mathias, EC Beane… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Disruption of antagonism between SWI/SNF chromatin remodelers and polycomb repressor
complexes drives the formation of numerous cancer types. Recently, an inhibitor of the …

Systematic perturbations of SETD2, NSD1, NSD2, NSD3, and ASH1L reveal their distinct contributions to H3K36 methylation

GA Shipman, R Padilla, C Horth, B Hu, E Bareke… - Genome biology, 2024 - Springer
Background Methylation of histone 3 lysine 36 (H3K36me) has emerged as an essential
epigenetic component for the faithful regulation of gene expression. Despite its importance …

Oncohistones: hijacking the histone code

V Sahu, C Lu - Annual review of cancer biology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Chromatin dysfunction has been implicated in a growing number of cancers especially in
children and young adults. In addition to chromatin-modifying and-remodeling enzymes …

RNAPII driven post-translational modifications of nucleosomal histones

J Chan, A Kumar, H Kono - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
The current understanding of how specific distributions of histone post-translational
modifications (PTMs) are achieved throughout the chromatin remains incomplete. This …

DNA methylation and histone variants in aging and cancer

A Mangelinck, C Mann - International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Aging-related diseases such as cancer can be traced to the accumulation of molecular
disorder including increased DNA mutations and epigenetic drift. We provide a …