The bacterial epigenome

MA Sánchez-Romero, J Casadesús - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
In all domains of life, genomes contain epigenetic information superimposed over the
nucleotide sequence. Epigenetic signals control DNA–protein interactions and can cause …

Deciphering bacterial epigenomes using modern sequencing technologies

J Beaulaurier, EE Schadt, G Fang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Prokaryotic DNA contains three types of methylation: N6-methyladenine, N4-methylcytosine
and 5-methylcytosine. The lack of tools to analyse the frequency and distribution of …

Map** DNA methylation with high-throughput nanopore sequencing

AC Rand, M Jain, JM Eizenga, A Musselman-Brown… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
DNA chemical modifications regulate genomic function. We present a framework for
map** cytosine and adenosine methylation with the Oxford Nanopore Technologies …

The epigenomic landscape of prokaryotes

MJ Blow, TA Clark, CG Daum, AM Deutschbauer… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
DNA methylation acts in concert with restriction enzymes to protect the integrity of
prokaryotic genomes. Studies in a limited number of organisms suggest that methylation …

De novo Identification of DNA Modifications Enabled by Genome-Guided Nanopore Signal Processing

M Stoiber, J Quick, R Egan, J Eun Lee, S Celniker… - BioRxiv, 2016 - biorxiv.org
Advances in nanopore sequencing technology have enabled investigation of the full
catalogue of covalent DNA modifications. We present the first algorithm for the identification …

Genome-wide map** of methylated adenine residues in pathogenic Escherichia coli using single-molecule real-time sequencing

G Fang, D Munera, DI Friedman, A Mandlik… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Single-molecule real-time (SMRT) DNA sequencing allows the systematic detection of
chemical modifications such as methylation but has not previously been applied on a …

Nucleic acid modifications in regulation of gene expression

K Chen, BS Zhao, C He - Cell chemical biology, 2016 - cell.com
Nucleic acids carry a wide range of different chemical modifications. In contrast to previous
views that these modifications are static and only play fine-tuning functions, recent research …

DNA methylation in bacteria: from the methyl group to the methylome

MA Sánchez-Romero, I Cota, J Casadesús - Current opinion in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Bacterial genomes contain C 5-methyl-cytosine, N 4-methyl-cytosine, and N 6-
methyl-adenine.•Base methylation controls DNA–protein interactions.•DNA methylation …

DNA methyltransferases and epigenetic regulation in bacteria

S Adhikari, PD Curtis - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Epigenetics is a change in gene expression that is heritable without a change in DNA
sequence itself. This phenomenon is well studied in eukaryotes, particularly in humans for …

To be or not to be: regulation of restriction–modification systems and other toxin–antitoxin systems

I Mruk, I Kobayashi - Nucleic acids research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
One of the simplest classes of genes involved in programmed death is that containing the
toxin–antitoxin (TA) systems of prokaryotes. These systems are composed of an intracellular …