TET-mediated active DNA demethylation: mechanism, function and beyond

X Wu, Y Zhang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
In mammals, DNA methylation in the form of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) can be actively
reversed to unmodified cytosine (C) through TET dioxygenase-mediated oxidation of 5mC to …

Vitamin C and immune cell function in inflammation and cancer

A Ang, JM Pullar, MJ Currie… - Biochemical Society …, 2018 - portlandpress.com
Vitamin C (ascorbate) is maintained at high levels in most immune cells and can affect many
aspects of the immune response. Intracellular levels generally respond to variations in …

NR4A transcription factors limit CAR T cell function in solid tumours

J Chen, IF López-Moyado, H Seo, CWJ Lio… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
T cells expressing chimeric antigen receptors (CAR T cells) targeting human CD19 (hCD19)
have shown clinical efficacy against B cell malignancies,. CAR T cells have been less …

Mechanisms that regulate the activities of TET proteins

K Joshi, S Liu, P Breslin SJ, J Zhang - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2022 - Springer
The ten–eleven translocation (TET) family of dioxygenases consists of three members,
TET1, TET2, and TET3. All three TET enzymes have Fe+ 2 and α-ketoglutarate (α-KG) …

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

X Zhang, Y Zhang, C Wang, X Wang - Signal Transduction and …, 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 …

Enhancer DNA methylation: implications for gene regulation

A Angeloni, O Bogdanovic - Essays in biochemistry, 2019 - portlandpress.com
DNA methylation involves the addition of a methyl group to the fifth carbon of the pyrimidine
cytosine ring (5-methylcytosine, 5mC). 5mC is widespread in vertebrate genomes where it is …

TET deficiency perturbs mature B cell homeostasis and promotes oncogenesis associated with accumulation of G-quadruplex and R-loop structures

V Shukla, D Samaniego-Castruita, Z Dong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Enzymes of the TET family are methylcytosine dioxygenases that undergo frequent
mutational or functional inactivation in human cancers. Recurrent loss-of-function mutations …

Loss of TET2 and TET3 in regulatory T cells unleashes effector function

X Yue, CWJ Lio, D Samaniego-Castruita, X Li… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
TET enzymes oxidize 5-methylcytosine to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and other oxidized
methylcytosines in DNA. Here we examine the role of TET proteins in regulatory T (Treg) …

TET enzymes and 5hmC in adaptive and innate immune systems

CWJ Lio, A Rao - Frontiers in Immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
DNA methylation is an abundant and stable epigenetic modification that allows inheritance
of information from parental to daughter cells. At active genomic regions, DNA methylation …

TET Enzymes in the Immune system: from DNA demethylation to immunotherapy, inflammation, and cancer

IF López-Moyado, M Ko, PG Hogan… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Ten-eleven translocation (TET) proteins are iron-dependent and α-ketoglutarate-dependent
dioxygenases that sequentially oxidize the methyl group of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to 5 …