The new gene therapy aims to address the root cause of prion disease by using the CHARM epigenetic editing platform from the Whitehead Institute to target and silence the gene that codes for the ...

Mutations of the histone H3K36-specific methyltransferase ASH1L have been linked to several human diseases. Here, the authors report the mechanism by which three C-terminal domains in ASH1L ...

State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of ...

Methylation of PP2Ac is primarily mediated by leucine carboxyl methyltransferase-1 (LCMT-1). Demethylation is controlled by an esterase, PP2A methylesterase (PME-1). We tested two potential LCMT-1 ...

This is generally a well-designed and carefully conducted study that is likely to be of interest to many both inside and outside of the field of lung tumorigenesis and normal lung development and ...

Molecular mechanisms that exert epigenetic control of gene expression contribute to age-associated neuronal impairments. Both DNA methylation, mediated by DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs), and histone ...

In this paper, we identify MLL4 as a major H3K4 mono- and di-methyltransferase enriched on mammalian enhancers. We show MLL4 is essential for enhancer activation, cell-type-specific gene expression, ...