Establishment of H3K9-methylated heterochromatin and its functions in tissue differentiation and maintenance

J Padeken, SP Methot, SM Gasser - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Heterochromatin is characterized by dimethylated or trimethylated histone H3 Lys9
(H3K9me2 or H3K9me3, respectively) and is found at transposable elements, satellite …

Histone modifications and cancer

JE Audia, RM Campbell - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2016 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Histone posttranslational modifications represent a versatile set of epigenetic marks
involved not only in dynamic cellular processes, such as transcription and DNA repair, but …

Methyl-CpG-binding domain proteins: readers of the epigenome

Q Du, PL Luu, C Stirzaker, SJ Clark - Epigenomics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
How DNA methylation is interpreted and influences genome regulation remains largely
unknown. Proteins of the methyl-CpG-binding domain (MBD) family are primary candidates …

SET for life: biochemical activities and biological functions of SET domain-containing proteins

HM Herz, A Garruss, A Shilatifard - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2013 - cell.com
SET domain-containing proteins belong to a group of enzymes named after a common
domain that utilizes the cofactor S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) to achieve methylation of …

The emerging role of chromatin remodelers in neurodevelopmental disorders: a developmental perspective

B Mossink, M Negwer, D Schubert… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), including intellectual disability (ID) and autism
spectrum disorders (ASD), are a large group of disorders in which early insults during brain …

Epigenetic regulation in hematopoiesis and its implications in the targeted therapy of hematologic malignancies

A Zhao, H Zhou, J Yang, M Li, T Niu - Signal Transduction and Targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Hematologic malignancies are one of the most common cancers, and the incidence has
been rising in recent decades. The clinical and molecular features of hematologic …

Basic concepts of epigenetics: impact of environmental signals on gene expression

EA Mazzio, KFA Soliman - Epigenetics, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Through epigenetic modifications, specific long-term phenotypic consequences can arise
from environmental influence on slowly evolving genomic DNA. Heritable epigenetic …

Lysine methylation: beyond histones

X Zhang, H Wen, X Shi - Acta Biochim Biophys Sin, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) of histone proteins, such as acetylation, methylation,
phosphorylation, and ubiquitylation, play essential roles in regulating chromatin dynamics …

DNA methylation readers and cancer: mechanistic and therapeutic applications

N Mahmood, SA Rabbani - Frontiers in oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
DNA methylation is a major epigenetic process that regulates chromatin structure which
causes transcriptional activation or repression of genes in a context-dependent manner. In …

Sound of silence: the properties and functions of repressive Lys methyltransferases

C Mozzetta, E Boyarchuk, J Pontis… - Nature Reviews Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
The methylation of histone Lys residues by Lys methyltransferases (KMTs) regulates
chromatin organization and either activates or represses gene expression, depending on …