Methylation articles within Nature

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  • Article |

    Experiments using a conditional triple-knockout mouse strain show that histone H1 regulates the activity of chromatin domains by controlling chromatin compaction, genome architecture and  histone methylation.

    • Michael A. Willcockson
    • , Sean E. Healton
    •  & Arthur I. Skoultchi
  • Letter |

    SMYD3 is a methyltransferase overexpressed in several human tumours; here methylation of the MAP3K2 kinase by SMYD3 is shown to be critical for Ras-induced tumour development in mouse models and human tumour cells, showing an unexpected role for methylation in a kinase signalling pathway and revealing a candidate therapeutic target.

    • Pawel K. Mazur
    • , Nicolas Reynoird
    •  & Or Gozani
  • Article |

    N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most prevalent internal modification in messenger RNA; here the human and mouse m6A modification landscape is presented in a transcriptome-wide manner, providing insights into this epigenetic modification.

    • Dan Dominissini
    • , Sharon Moshitch-Moshkovitz
    •  & Gideon Rechavi
  • Letter |

    In a mouse model and in human medulloblastoma patients, the metastases in an individual have similar genomic alterations and DNA methylation patterns, but these patterns are highly divergent from those of the primary tumour, indicating that therapies will need to be tailored to fit the molecular alterations present in the primary tumour and/or the metastases.

    • Xiaochong Wu
    • , Paul A. Northcott
    •  & Michael D. Taylor
  • Letter |

    The amino-terminal tails of histone proteins are subject to a variety of post-translational modifications; addition or removal of these 'marks' facilitates gene activation or silencing. Here, a mechanism is defined that modulates the activity of the dual-specificity histone demethylase LSD1 during androgen-dependent transcription. Androgen-dependent signalling through protein kinase C beta I leads to phosphorylation of a histone amino acid, which prevents demethylation of an adjacent amino acid by LSD1.

    • Eric Metzger
    • , Axel Imhof
    •  & Roland Schüle