RNA modifications: importance in immune cell biology and related diseases

L Cui, R Ma, J Cai, C Guo, Z Chen, L Yao… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
RNA modifications have become hot topics recently. By influencing RNA processes,
including generation, transportation, function, and metabolization, they act as critical …

The language of chromatin modification in human cancers

S Zhao, CD Allis, GG Wang - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
The genetic information of human cells is stored in the context of chromatin, which is
subjected to DNA methylation and various histone modifications. Such a 'language'of …

Denaturing purifications demonstrate that PRC2 and other widely reported chromatin proteins do not appear to bind directly to RNA in vivo

JK Guo, MR Blanco, WG Walkup, G Bonesteele… - Molecular cell, 2024 - cell.com
Summary Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is reported to bind to many RNAs and
has become a central player in reports of how long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulate …

Opportunities and challenges in long-read sequencing data analysis

SL Amarasinghe, S Su, X Dong, L Zappia, ME Ritchie… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Long-read technologies are overcoming early limitations in accuracy and throughput,
broadening their application domains in genomics. Dedicated analysis tools that take into …

TET (Ten-eleven translocation) family proteins: structure, biological functions and applications

X Zhang, Y Zhang, C Wang, X Wang - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Ten-eleven translocation (TET) family proteins (TETs), specifically, TET1, TET2 and TET3,
can modify DNA by oxidizing 5-methylcytosine (5mC) iteratively to yield 5 …

Targeting epigenetic regulators for cancer therapy: mechanisms and advances in clinical trials

Y Cheng, C He, M Wang, X Ma, F Mo, S Yang… - Signal transduction and …, 2019 - nature.com
Epigenetic alternations concern heritable yet reversible changes in histone or DNA
modifications that regulate gene activity beyond the underlying sequence. Epigenetic …

Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease

S Jaiswal, BL Ebert - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Somatic mutations accumulate in normal tissues as a function of time. The
great majority of these mutations have no effect on fitness, so selection does not act upon …

The diverse roles of DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease

MVC Greenberg, D Bourc'his - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
DNA methylation is of paramount importance for mammalian embryonic development. DNA
methylation has numerous functions: it is implicated in the repression of transposons and …

Biological roles of RNA m5C modification and its implications in Cancer immunotherapy

H Song, J Zhang, B Liu, J Xu, B Cai, H Yang… - Biomarker …, 2022 - Springer
Epigenetics including DNA and RNA modifications have always been the hotspot field of life
sciences in the post-genome era. Since the first map** of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) and …

Epigenetic inheritance of polycystic ovary syndrome—challenges and opportunities for treatment

E Stener-Victorin, Q Deng - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2021 - nature.com
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the main cause of female infertility worldwide and is
associated with a substantially increased lifetime risk of comorbidities, including type 2 …