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Mutant Histones

October 15, 2008

Over the years mutants like E.T., the Hulk, Yoda, and the X-Men to name a few, have all left a lasting impression in our lives. That’s why when a group of John’s Hopkins researchers, led by Jef Boeke, produced a library of synthetic histone H3 and H4 mutants to probe the function of each residue […]

Intron-Encoded miRNA Sidekick to the Rescue

October 15, 2008

Every great star has a sidekick who sometimes threatens to steal the show: Batman had Robin, Sherlock Holmes had Dr. Watson, and Hillary had Bill. Likewise, some proteins appear to have an intron-encoded miRNA sidekick that neutralizes the “bad guys” so that the protein can effectively perform its cellular function, as demonstrated in a recent […]

Good Twin/Bad Twin: Is Epigenetics to Blame?

October 13, 2008

The Evil Twin is a staple of the soap opera genre—you know, the long-lost, villainous sister who kidnaps her virtuous twin and assumes her life, only to be discovered years later when the Good Twin escapes from imprisonment on an alien-inhabited desert isle. But in real life, how can identical twins with the same genes […]

Susan Clark: Leading Ladies in Epigenetics Research

October 8, 2008

A native of Australia, Susan J. Clark obtained her PhD in 1982 from the University of Adelaide. For the next 8 years, Dr. Clark worked in the biotech industry before returning to basic research where she was instrumental in developing the bisulphite sequencing method for DNA methylation analysis in the early 90s. Dr. Clark is […]

ncRNAs Pave the Way for Chromatin Remodeling

October 6, 2008

Researchers have been puzzled by the discovery of several-kilobase-long, polyadenylated transcripts that overlap functional coding regions but do not themselves encode proteins. A recent Nature paper by Kouji Hirota, Kunihiro Ohta, and co-workers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (Japan), the University of Tokyo, and Boston College indicates that some of these ncRNAs are transcriptional […]

RNA-Directed DNA deMethylation: An Undiscovered Country in the RNA World?

October 1, 2008

Let’s face it: it’s an RNA world. In addition to RNA’s many genetic, catalytic, and structural roles, the discovery of small non-coding RNAs has unveiled an entire continent of epigenetic functions. Small RNAs act in processes such as mRNA destruction, translational inhibition, and DNA methylation. Now it appears that, at least in plants, small RNAs […]

How’s That For Gratitude: let-7 miRNA Targets Dicer’s Coding Sequence

September 30, 2008

Recent evidence has shown that the let-7 miRNA bites the hand that feeds it . . . and in an unconventional way. By searching for short sequences conserved at the nucleotide level in the coding regions of 17 species, Hilary Coller and co-workers at Princeton University identified three let-7 target sites within the coding sequence […]

DNA Methylation Detection Goes Small Time

September 28, 2008

A sensitive new nanotechnology assay might represent a “quantum leap” in DNA methylation detection. The technique, which was developed by Vasudev Bailey and co-workers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, uses quantum dots-fluorescent nanocrystals of a semiconductor material-to selectivel detect and quantify minute amounts of methylated DNA. As in methylation-specific PCR (MSP), sample […]

When Inhibitors Become Inhibited: miR 21 Becomes the Prey

September 26, 2008

It turns out that the small but mighty inhibitors of gene expression have an achilles heel and can be served up a taste of their own effect. Qihong Huang, Alexander Deiters, and colleagues at The Wistar Institute, North Carolina State University, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered the first small molecule inhibitor […]

Roadmap Epigenomics

September 25, 2008

If you’re looking to sneak your grant in on the earliest date for the Epigenomics of Human Health and Disease (R01) grant, time is ticking. Applications are being accepted starting this Sunday. That’s the right, the date says September 28th. For those of you looking for additional information, the grant information is listed below, but […]

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