The function and regulation of TET2 in innate immunity and inflammation

B Cong, Q Zhang, X Cao - Protein & cell, 2021 - academic.oup.com
TET2, a member of ten-eleven translocation (TET) family as α-ketoglutarate-and Fe2+-
dependent dioxygenase catalyzing the iterative oxidation of 5-methylcytosine (5mC), has …

DNA methylation patterning and the regulation of beta cell homeostasis

N Parveen, S Dhawan - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Pancreatic beta cells play a central role in regulating glucose homeostasis by secreting the
hormone insulin. Failure of beta cells due to reduced function and mass and the resulting …

A pan-tissue DNA methylation atlas enables in silico decomposition of human tissue methylomes at cell-type resolution

T Zhu, J Liu, S Beck, S Pan, D Capper, M Lechner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Bulk-tissue DNA methylomes represent an average over many different cell types,
hampering our understanding of cell-type-specific contributions to disease development. As …

Pancreatic β cell microRNA-26a alleviates type 2 diabetes by improving peripheral insulin sensitivity and preserving β cell function

H Xu, X Du, J Xu, Y Zhang, Y Tian, G Liu, X Wang… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is characterized by insulin resistance along with pancreatic β cell
failure. β cell factors are traditionally thought to control glucose homeostasis by modulating …

Genome-wide association study identifies five risk loci for pernicious anemia

T Laisk, M Lepamets, M Koel, E Abner… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Pernicious anemia is a rare condition characterized by vitamin B12 deficiency anemia due
to lack of intrinsic factor, often caused by autoimmune gastritis. Patients with pernicious …

Transient microglial absence assists postmigratory cortical neurons in proper differentiation

Y Hattori, Y Naito, Y Tsugawa, S Nonaka… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In the develo** cortex, postmigratory neurons accumulate in the cortical plate (CP) to
properly differentiate consolidating subtype identities. Microglia, despite their extensive …

TETology: epigenetic mastermind in action

A Seethy, K Pethusamy, I Chattopadhyay… - Applied Biochemistry …, 2021 - Springer
Cytosine methylation is a well-explored epigenetic modification mediated by DNA
methyltransferases (DNMTs) which are considered “methylation writers”; cytosine …

[HTML][HTML] Multiplexing DNA methylation markers to detect circulating cell-free DNA derived from human pancreatic β cells

D Neiman, D Gillis, S Piyanzin, D Cohen, O Fridlich… - JCI insight, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It has been proposed that unmethylated insulin promoter fragments in plasma derive
exclusively from β cells, reflect their recent demise, and can be used to assess β cell …

[HTML][HTML] Causal Effects of Oxidative Stress on Diabetes Mellitus and Microvascular Complications: Insights Integrating Genome-Wide Mendelian Randomization, DNA …

K Liu, Z Chen, L Liu, T Li, C **ng, F Han, H Mao - Antioxidants, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background: Oxidative stress (OS) is involved in the development of diabetes, but the
genetic mechanisms are not completely understood. We integrated multi-omics data in order …

TRAF3 promotes ROS production and pyroptosis by targeting ULK1 ubiquitination in macrophages

Y Shen, W Liu, X Zhang, J Shi, S Jiang… - The FASEB …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Disrupted mitochondrial function and reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation cause
cellular damage and oxidative stress‐induced macrophage inflammatory cell death. It …