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 …

LncRNA-mediated DNA methylation: an emerging mechanism in cancer and beyond

W Huang, H Li, Q Yu, W **ao, DO Wang - Journal of Experimental & …, 2022 - Springer
DNA methylation is one of the most important epigenetic mechanisms to regulate gene
expression, which is highly dynamic during development and specifically maintained in …

Epigenetic tools (The Writers, The Readers and The Erasers) and their implications in cancer therapy

S Biswas, CM Rao - European journal of pharmacology, 2018 - Elsevier
Addition of chemical tags on the DNA and modification of histone proteins impart a distinct
feature on chromatin architecture. With the advancement in scientific research, the key …

Interplay between chromatin marks in development and disease

SM Janssen, MC Lorincz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation (DNAme) and histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) have
important roles in transcriptional regulation. Although many reports have characterized the …

Role of mammalian DNA methyltransferases in development

Z Chen, Y Zhang - Annual review of biochemistry, 2020 - annualreviews.org
DNA methylation at the 5-position of cytosine (5mC) plays vital roles in mammalian
development. DNA methylation is catalyzed by DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs), and the …

DNA methylation reprogramming during mammalian development

Y Zeng, T Chen - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
DNA methylation (5-methylcytosine, 5mC) is a major form of DNA modification in the
mammalian genome that plays critical roles in chromatin structure and gene expression. In …

Dnmt1 has de novo activity targeted to transposable elements

C Haggerty, H Kretzmer, C Riemenschneider… - Nature structural & …, 2021 - nature.com
DNA methylation plays a critical role during development, particularly in repressing
retrotransposons. The mammalian methylation landscape is dependent on the combined …

[HTML][HTML] Histone ubiquitination: an integrative signaling platform in genome stability

F Mattiroli, L Penengo - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Complex mechanisms are in place to maintain genome stability. Ubiquitination of chromatin
plays a central role in these mechanisms. The ever-growing complexity of the ubiquitin (Ub) …

Principles of ubiquitin-dependent signaling

E Oh, D Akopian, M Rape - Annual review of cell and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Ubiquitylation is an essential posttranslational modification that controls cell division,
differentiation, and survival in all eukaryotes. By combining multiple E3 ligases (writers) …

The interplay between DNA and histone methylation: molecular mechanisms and disease implications

Y Li, X Chen, C Lu - EMBO reports, 2021 - embopress.org
Methylation of cytosine in CpG dinucleotides and histone lysine and arginine residues is a
chromatin modification that critically contributes to the regulation of genome integrity …