Relationships among smoking, oxidative stress, inflammation, macromolecular damage, and cancer

AW Caliri, S Tommasi, A Besaratinia - Mutation Research/Reviews in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Smoking is a major risk factor for a variety of diseases, including cancer and immune-
mediated inflammatory diseases. Tobacco smoke contains a mixture of chemicals, including …

The DNA methylation landscape in cancer

K Skvortsova, C Stirzaker, P Taberlay - Essays in biochemistry, 2019 - portlandpress.com
As one of the most abundant and well-studied epigenetic modifications, DNA methylation
plays an essential role in normal development and cellular biology. Global alterations to the …

Consistent inverse correlation between DNA methylation of the first intron and gene expression across tissues and species

D Anastasiadi, A Esteve-Codina, F Piferrer - Epigenetics & chromatin, 2018 - Springer
Background DNA methylation is one of the main epigenetic mechanisms for the regulation of
gene expression in eukaryotes. In the standard model, methylation in gene promoters has …

[HTML][HTML] Navigating the DNA methylation landscape of cancer

A Nishiyama, M Nakanishi - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
DNA methylation is a chemical modification that defines cell type and lineage through the
control of gene expression and genome stability. Disruption of DNA methylation control …

A human tissue map of 5-hydroxymethylcytosines exhibits tissue specificity through gene and enhancer modulation

XL Cui, J Nie, J Ku, U Dougherty… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract DNA 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) modification is known to be associated with
gene transcription and frequently used as a mark to investigate dynamic DNA methylation …

The 5-hydroxymethylcytosine landscape of prostate cancer

M Sjöström, SG Zhao, S Levy, M Zhang, Y Ning… - Cancer research, 2022 - AACR
Abstract Analysis of DNA methylation is a valuable tool to understand disease progression
and is increasingly being used to create diagnostic and prognostic clinical biomarkers …

LncRNAs and the cancer epigenome: Mechanisms and therapeutic potential

R Nadhan, C Isidoro, YS Song, DN Dhanasekaran - Cancer Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as critical regulators of epigenome,
modulating gene expression through DNA methylation, histone modification, and/or …

[HTML][HTML] Current advances in detecting genetic and epigenetic biomarkers of colorectal cancer

MS Islam, V Gopalan, AK Lam, MJA Shiddiky - Biosensors and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Colorectal carcinoma (CRC) is the third most common cancer in terms of diagnosis and the
second in terms of mortality. Recent studies have shown that various proteins, extracellular …

DNA hypermethylation encroachment at CpG island borders in cancer is predisposed by H3K4 monomethylation patterns

K Skvortsova, E Masle-Farquhar, PL Luu, JZ Song… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Promoter CpG islands are typically unmethylated in normal cells, but in cancer a proportion
are subject to hypermethylation. Using methylome sequencing we identified CpG islands …

Bisulfite-free and single-nucleotide resolution sequencing of DNA epigenetic modification of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine using engineered deaminase

NB **e, M Wang, TT Ji, X Guo, JH Ding, BF Yuan… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The discovery of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) in mammalian genomes is a landmark in
epigenomics study. Similar to 5-methylcytosine (5mC), 5hmC is viewed as a critical …