Staying true to yourself: mechanisms of DNA methylation maintenance in mammals

N Petryk, S Bultmann, T Bartke… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is essential to development and cellular physiology in mammals. Faulty
DNA methylation is frequently observed in human diseases like cancer and neurological …

3′ UTR heterogeneity and cancer progression

JJ Chan, H Tabatabaeian, Y Tay - Trends in Cell Biology, 2023 - cell.com
The majority of human mRNAs generate alternative 3′ untranslated regions (UTRs)
through various processes, including RNA modifications such as RNA editing, m 6 A …

An atlas of alternative polyadenylation quantitative trait loci contributing to complex trait and disease heritability

L Li, KL Huang, Y Gao, Y Cui, G Wang, ND Elrod, Y Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of noncoding variants
associated with human traits and diseases. However, the functional interpretation of these …

A metabolic associated fatty liver disease risk variant in MBOAT7 regulates toll like receptor induced outcomes

J Alharthi, A Bayoumi, K Thabet, Z Pan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The breakdown of toll-like receptor (TLR) tolerance results in tissue damage, and
hyperactivation of the TLRs and subsequent inflammatory consequences have been …

Context-specific regulation and function of mRNA alternative polyadenylation

S Mitschka, C Mayr - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation (APA) is a widespread mechanism to generate
mRNA isoforms with alternative 3′ untranslated regions (UTRs). The expression of …

Mechanisms of DNA methylation regulatory function and crosstalk with histone lysine methylation

BM Tibben, SB Rothbart - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
DNA methylation is a well-studied epigenetic modification that has key roles in regulating
gene expression, maintaining genome integrity, and determining cell fate. Precisely how …

[LIBRO][B] RNA, the epicenter of genetic information

J Mattick, P Amaral - 2023 - library.oapen.org
The origin story and emergence of molecular biology is muddled. The early triumphs in
bacterial genetics and the complexity of animal and plant genomes complicate an intricate …

Epigenetic regulation of genomic stability by vitamin C

JP Brabson, T Leesang, S Mohammad… - Frontiers in genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
DNA methylation plays an important role in the maintenance of genomic stability. Ten-
eleven translocation proteins (TETs) are a family of iron (Fe2+) and α-KG-dependent …

Regulation of alternative polyadenylation by the C2H2-zinc-finger protein Sp1

J Song, S Nabeel-Shah, S Pu, H Lee, U Braunschweig… - Molecular Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) enhances gene regulatory potential by increasing the
diversity of mRNA transcripts. 3′ UTR shortening through APA correlates with enhanced …

RNA helicase-dependent gene loo** impacts messenger RNA processing

S Terrone, J Valat, N Fontrodona, G Giraud… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract DDX5 and DDX17 are DEAD-box RNA helicase paralogs which regulate several
aspects of gene expression, especially transcription and splicing, through incompletely …