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  1. A common aberration in cancer is the activation of germline-specific proteins. The DNA-binding proteins among them could generate novel chromatin states, not found in normal cells. The germline-specific transc...

    Authors: Elena M. Pugacheva, Evgeny Teplyakov, Qiongfang Wu, Jingjing Li, Cheng Chen, Chengcheng Meng, Jian Liu, Susan Robinson, Dmitry Loukinov, Abdelhalim Boukaba, Andrew Paul Hutchins, Victor Lobanenkov and Alexander Strunnikov
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2016 9:35
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  2. KRAB zinc finger proteins (KZFPs) represent one of the largest families of DNA-binding proteins in vertebrate genomes and appear to have evolved to silence transposable elements (TEs) including endogenous retr...

    Authors: Hui Shi, Ruslan Strogantsev, Nozomi Takahashi, Anastasiya Kazachenka, Matthew C. Lorincz, Myriam Hemberger and Anne C. Ferguson-Smith
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:49
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  3. The existing reports about intergenerational or transgenerational effects of intrauterine hyperglycemia have included both intrauterine and postnatal metabolic exposure factors, while the impact of intrauterin...

    Authors: Jun Ren, Yi Cheng, Zhen-Hua Ming, Xin-Yan Dong, Yu-Zhong Zhou, Guo-Lian Ding, Hai-Yan Pang, Tanzil Ur Rahman, Rubab Akbar, He-Feng Huang and Jian-Zhong Sheng
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:20
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  4. Epigenomic studies on humans and model species have revealed substantial inter-individual variation in histone modification profiles. However, the pattern of this variation has not been precisely characterized...

    Authors: Fabien Filleton, Florent Chuffart, Muniyandi Nagarajan, Hélène Bottin-Duplus and Gaël Yvert
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2015 8:26
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  5. Imprinted loci are paradigms of epigenetic regulation and are associated with a number of genetic disorders in human. A key characteristic of imprints is the presence of a gametic differentially methylated reg...

    Authors: Avinash Thakur, Sarah-Jayne Mackin, Rachelle E. Irwin, Karla M. O’Neill, Gareth Pollin and Colum Walsh
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2016 9:53
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  6. BRM (BRAHMA) is a core, SWI2/SNF2-type ATPase subunit of SWI/SNF chromatin-remodelling complex (CRC) involved in various important regulatory processes including development. Mutations in SMARCA2, a BRM-encoding ...

    Authors: Iga Jancewicz, Janusz A. Siedlecki, Tomasz J. Sarnowski and Elzbieta Sarnowska
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:68
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  7. The small non-histone protein Heterochromatin protein 1a (HP1a) plays a vital role in packaging chromatin, most notably in forming constitutive heterochromatin at the centromeres and telomeres. A second major ...

    Authors: Janel R Cabrera, Ursula Olcese and Jamila I Horabin
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2015 8:17
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  8. Phenotypic variability among inbred littermates reared in controlled environments remains poorly understood. Metastable epialleles refer to loci that intrinsically behave in this way and a few examples have be...

    Authors: Harald Oey, Luke Isbel, Peter Hickey, Basant Ebaid and Emma Whitelaw
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2015 8:54
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  10. The transcriptional repressor promyelocytic leukemia zinc finger protein (PLZF) is critical for the regulation of normal stem cells maintenance by establishing specific epigenetic landscape. We have previously...

    Authors: Melanie J. McConnell, Laetitia Durand, Emma Langley, Lise Coste-Sarguet, Arthur Zelent, Christine Chomienne, Tony Kouzarides, Jonathan D. Licht and Fabien Guidez
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2015 8:38
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  12. Previous studies of higher order chromatin organization in nuclei of mammalian species revealed both structural consistency and species-specific differences between cell lines and during early embryonic develo...

    Authors: Barbara Hübner, Mariana Lomiento, Fabiana Mammoli, Doris Illner, Yolanda Markaki, Sergio Ferrari, Marion Cremer and Thomas Cremer
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2015 8:47
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  13. Boundaries in the Drosophila bithorax complex delimit autonomous regulatory domains that activate the parasegment (PS)-specific expression of homeotic genes. The Fab-7 boundary separates the iab-6 and iab-7 regul...

    Authors: Anna Fedotova, Chaevia Clendinen, Artem Bonchuk, Vladic Mogila, Tsutomu Aoki, Pavel Georgiev and Paul Schedl
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:2
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  14. The distinct functional effects of the replication-dependent histone H2A isoforms have been demonstrated; however, the mechanistic basis of the non-redundancy remains unclear. Here, we have investigated the sp...

    Authors: Saikat Bhattacharya, Divya Reddy, Vinod Jani, Nikhil Gadewal, Sanket Shah, Raja Reddy, Kakoli Bose, Uddhavesh Sonavane, Rajendra Joshi and Sanjay Gupta
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2017 10:48
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:67

  15. The Chromomethylase 1 (CMT1) has long been considered a nonessential gene because, in certain Arabidopsis ecotypes, the CMT1 gene is disrupted by the Evelknievel (EK) retroelement, inserted within exon 13, or con...

    Authors: Narendra Singh Yadav, Janardan Khadka, Katherine Domb, Assaf Zemach and Gideon Grafi
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:69
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  16. Regulation of gene expression by histone-modifying enzymes is essential to control cell fate decisions and developmental processes. Two histone-modifying enzymes, RPD3, a deacetylase, and dKDM5/LID, a demethyl...

    Authors: Ambikai Gajan, Valerie L. Barnes, Mengying Liu, Nirmalya Saha and Lori A. Pile
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2016 9:4
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  17. The association of active transcription regulatory elements (TREs) with DNAse I hypersensitivity (DHS[+]) and an ‘open’ local chromatin configuration has long been known. However, the 3D topography of TREs wi...

    Authors: Marion Cremer, Volker J. Schmid, Felix Kraus, Yolanda Markaki, Ines Hellmann, Andreas Maiser, Heinrich Leonhardt, Sam John, John Stamatoyannopoulos and Thomas Cremer
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2017 10:39
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  18. Environmental stress-induced transgenerational epigenetic effects have been observed in various model organisms and human. The capacity and mechanism of such phenomena are poorly understood. In C. elegans, siRNA ...

    Authors: Julie Zhouli Ni, Natallia Kalinava, Esteban Chen, Alex Huang, Thi Trinh and Sam Guoping Gu
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2016 9:3
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  19. Epigenetic modifications have a central role in transcriptional regulation. While several studies using next-generation sequencing have revealed genome-wide associations between epigenetic modifications and tr...

    Authors: Hiroto S. Fukushima, Hiroyuki Takeda and Ryohei Nakamura
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:17
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  20. The dynamic three-dimensional chromatin architecture of genomes and its co-evolutionary connection to its function—the storage, expression, and replication of genetic information—is still one of the central i...

    Authors: Tobias A. Knoch, Malte Wachsmuth, Nick Kepper, Michael Lesnussa, Anis Abuseiris, A. M. Ali Imam, Petros Kolovos, Jessica Zuin, Christel E. M. Kockx, Rutger W. W. Brouwer, Harmen J. G. van de Werken, Wilfred F. J. van IJcken, Kerstin S. Wendt and Frank G. Grosveld
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2016 9:58
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    The Related Article to this article has been published in Nature Protocols 2018 13:nprot.2017.132

  21. The dynamics of histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) are sparsely described, especially in their true physiological context of proteoforms (single histone molecules harboring combinations of PTMs).

    Authors: Tao Wang, Matthew V. Holt and Nicolas L. Young
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:29
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  22. During the process of spermatogenesis, male germ cells undergo dramatic chromatin reorganization, whereby most histones are replaced by protamines, as part of the pathway to compact the genome into the small n...

    Authors: Lacey J. Luense, Xiaoshi Wang, Samantha B. Schon, Angela H. Weller, Enrique Lin Shiao, Jessica M. Bryant, Marisa S. Bartolomei, Christos Coutifaris, Benjamin A. Garcia and Shelley L. Berger
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2016 9:24
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  23. Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) is among the most common malignant tumors with poor prognosis. Accumulating evidences have identified the important roles of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in the initia...

    Authors: Baoshan Wang, Lei Zhao, Weiwei Chi, Huan Cao, Weina Cui and Wenxia Meng
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:35
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  24. Although clinical data support an association between paternal alcohol use and deficits in child neurocognitive development, the relationship between paternal drinking and alcohol-induced growth phenotypes rem...

    Authors: Richard C. Chang, Haiqing Wang, Yudhishtar Bedi and Michael C. Golding
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:9
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  25. The reported antitumor activity of the BET family bromodomain inhibitors has prompted the development of inhibitors against other bromodomains. However, the human genome encodes more than 60 different bromodom...

    Authors: Veronica Garcia-Carpizo, Sergio Ruiz-Llorente, Jacinto Sarmentero, Osvaldo Graña-Castro, David G. Pisano and Maria J. Barrero
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:30
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  26. The chromatin remodelers of the SWI/SNF family are critical transcriptional regulators. Recognition of lysine acetylation through a bromodomain (BRD) component is key to SWI/SNF function; in most eukaryotes, t...

    Authors: Alejandro Saettone, Jyoti Garg, Jean-Philippe Lambert, Syed Nabeel-Shah, Marcelo Ponce, Alyson Burtch, Cristina Thuppu Mudalige, Anne-Claude Gingras, Ronald E. Pearlman and Jeffrey Fillingham
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:10
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  27. Histones and histone variants are essential components of the nuclear chromatin. While mass spectrometry has opened a large window to their characterization and functional studies, their identification from pr...

    Authors: Sara El Kennani, Annie Adrait, Alexey K. Shaytan, Saadi Khochbin, Christophe Bruley, Anna R. Panchenko, David Landsman, Delphine Pflieger and Jérôme Govin
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2017 10:2
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  28. The nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase complex promotes cell fate decisions throughout embryonic development. Its core enzymatic subunit, the SNF2-like ATPase and Helicase Mi2, is well conserved throughout ...

    Authors: Stéphanie Käser-Pébernard, Catherine Pfefferli, Caroline Aschinger and Chantal Wicky
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2016 9:39
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  29. The term CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) has been used to describe widespread DNA hypermethylation at CpG-rich genomic regions affecting clinically distinct subsets of cancer patients. Even though there...

    Authors: Francisco Sánchez-Vega, Valer Gotea, Gennady Margolin and Laura Elnitski
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2015 8:14
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  31. Biofilm formation or flocculation is a major phenotype in wild type budding yeasts but rarely seen in laboratory yeast strains. Here, we analysed flocculation phenotypes and the expression of FLO genes in laborat...

    Authors: Hollie Rowlands, Kholoud Shaban, Barret Foster, Yannic Proteau and Krassimir Yankulov
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:56
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  33. Epigenetic regulation of chromatin states is thought to control the self-renewal and differentiation of embryonic stem (ES) cells. However, the roles of repressive histone modifications such as trimethylated h...

    Authors: Benjamin L. Kidder, Gangqing Hu, Kairong Cui and Keji Zhao
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2017 10:8
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  34. Zrsr1 is a paternally expressed imprinted gene located in the first intron of Commd1, and the Zrsr1 promoter resides in a differentially methylated region (DMR) that is maternally methylated in the oocyte. Howeve...

    Authors: Keiichiro Joh, Fumikazu Matsuhisa, Shuji Kitajima, Kenichi Nishioka, Ken Higashimoto, Hitomi Yatsuki, Tomohiro Kono, Haruhiko Koseki and Hidenobu Soejima
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:28
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  35. Proteins that ‘read’ the histone code are central elements in epigenetic control and bromodomains, which bind acetyl-lysine motifs, are increasingly recognized as potential mediators of disease states. Notably...

    Authors: Yanai Zhan, Maria Kost-Alimova, Xi Shi, Elisabetta Leo, Jennifer P. Bardenhagen, Hannah E. Shepard, Srikanth Appikonda, Bhavatarini Vangamudi, Shuping Zhao, Trang N. Tieu, Shiming Jiang, Timothy P. Heffernan, Joseph R. Marszalek, Carlo Toniatti, Giulio Draetta, Jessica Tyler…
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2015 8:37
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  37. While the role of Polycomb group protein-mediated “cell memory” is well established in developmental contexts, little is known about their role in adult tissues and in particular in post-mitotic cells. Emergin...

    Authors: Peng Liu, Muhammad Shuaib, Huoming Zhang, Seba Nadeef and Valerio Orlando
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:78
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  38. The ubiquitin protein E3A ligase gene (UBE3A) gene is imprinted with maternal-specific expression in neurons and biallelically expressed in all other cell types. Both loss-of-function and gain-of-function mutatio...

    Authors: Paul R. Hillman, Sarah G. B. Christian, Ryan Doan, Noah D. Cohen, Kranti Konganti, Kory Douglas, Xu Wang, Paul B. Samollow and Scott V. Dindot
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2017 10:27
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  39. DNA methylation at cytosine nucleotides constitutes epigenetic gene regulation impacting cellular development and a wide range of diseases. Cytosine bases of the DNA are converted to 5-methylcytosine by the me...

    Authors: Jens Preussner, Julia Bayer, Carsten Kuenne and Mario Looso
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2015 8:51
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  40. Transcriptional regulation is impacted by multiple layers of genome organization. A general feature of transcriptionally active chromatin is sensitivity to DNase I and association with acetylated histones. How...

    Authors: Sanzida Jahan, Wayne Xu, Shihua He, Carolina Gonzalez, Geneviève P. Delcuve and James R. Davie
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2016 9:19
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  41. Macrophages and their precursors monocytes play a key role in inflammation and chronic inflammatory disorders. Monocyte-to-macrophage differentiation and activation programs are accompanied by significant epig...

    Authors: Koen F. Dekkers, Annette E. Neele, J. Wouter Jukema, Bastiaan T. Heijmans and Menno P. J. de Winther
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:34
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  42. Histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) play central roles in chromatin-templated processes. Combinations of two or more histone PTMs form unique interfaces for readout and recruitment of chromatin int...

    Authors: Rebekka Mauser, Goran Kungulovski, Corinna Keup, Richard Reinhardt and Albert Jeltsch
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2017 10:45
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  43. Chromatin proteins control gene activity in a concerted manner. We developed a high-throughput assay to study the effects of the local chromatin environment on the regulatory activity of a protein of interest....

    Authors: Laura Brueckner, Joris van Arensbergen, Waseem Akhtar, Ludo Pagie and Bas van Steensel
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2016 9:43
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  44. The estrogen receptor (ER) is a ligand-dependant transcription factor expressed in many breast cancers and is the target of many endocrine-based cancer therapies. Genome-wide studies have shown that the ER bin...

    Authors: Bart Kolendowski, Haider Hassan, Milica Krstic, Majdina Isovic, Gobi Thillainadesan, Ann F. Chambers, Alan B. Tuck and Joseph Torchia
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:5
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  45. Hyperinsulinemia, the presence of excess insulin relative to glucose in the blood, is considered to be a poor prognostic indicator for patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). mTOR, a downstream eff...

    Authors: Parijat Senapati, Hiroyuki Kato, Michael Lee, Amy Leung, Christine Thai, Angelica Sanchez, Emily J. Gallagher, Derek LeRoith, Victoria L. Seewaldt, David K. Ann and Dustin E. Schones
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:44
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  46. Recently, we showed that PARP1 is involved in cotranscriptional splicing, possibly by bridging chromatin to RNA and recruiting splicing factors. It also can influence alternative splicing decisions through the...

    Authors: Elena A. Matveeva, Qamar M. H. Al-Tinawi, Eric C. Rouchka and Yvonne N. Fondufe-Mittendorf
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:15
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  47. MeCP2—a chromatin-binding protein associated with Rett syndrome—has two main isoforms, MeCP2-E1 and MeCP2-E2, differing in a few N-terminal amino acid residues. Previous studies have shown brain region-specifi...

    Authors: Alexia Martínez de Paz, Leila Khajavi, Hélène Martin, Rafael Claveria-Gimeno, Susanne Tom Dieck, Manjinder S. Cheema, Jose V. Sanchez-Mut, Malgorzata M. Moksa, Annaick Carles, Nick I. Brodie, Taimoor I. Sheikh, Melissa E. Freeman, Evgeniy V. Petrotchenko, Christoph H. Borchers, Erin M. Schuman, Matthias Zytnicki…
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:63
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