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Intragenic DNA methylation prevents spurious transcription initiation
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In mammals, DNA methylation occurs mainly at CpG dinucleotides. Methylation of the promoter suppresses gene expression, but the functional role of gene-body DNA methylation in highly expressed genes has yet to be clarified. Here we show that, in mouse embryonic stem cells, Dnmt3b-dependent intragenic DNA methylation protects the gene body from spurious RNA polymerase II entry and cryptic transcription initiation. Using different genome-wide approaches, we demonstrate that this Dnmt3b function is dependent on its enzymatic activity and recruitment to the gene body by H3K36me3. Furthermore, the spurious transcripts can either be degraded by the RNA exosome complex or capped, polyadenylated, and delivered to the ribosome to produce aberrant proteins. Elongating RNA polymerase II therefore triggers an epigenetic crosstalk mechanism that involves SetD2, H3K36me3, Dnmt3b and DNA methylation to ensure the fidelity of gene transcription initiation, with implications for intragenic hypomethylation in cancer.
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Dnmt3b-mediated DNA methylation within gene bodies, recruited via H3K36me3, suppresses spurious intragenic RNA polymerase II entry and cryptic transcription initiation in mouse embryonic stem cells. The resulting aberrant transcripts can be degraded by the RNA exosome or capped, polyadenylated, exported, and ribosome-associated, with possible relevance to intragenic hypomethylation in cancer.
Key findings
- Dnmt3b knockout reduced gene-body 5-methylcytosine, especially on exons and introns, and increased intragenic transcription: 1,445 genes (18% of genes with RPKM > 1) showed an intermediate-exon/first-exon log2 ratio above 1.
- DECAP-seq identified 2,627 high-expression intragenic transcription start sites (RPM > 6) specific to Dnmt3b−/− cells, versus 780 shared and 936 WT-specific sites; Dnmt3b−/−-specific sites accounted for 2.76% of mapped reads, while shared sites accounted for 5.22%.
- SetD2 silencing reduced H3K36me3 and Dnmt3b gene-body binding and produced 3,560 high-confidence intragenic TSSs, of which 2,759 were specific to the knockdown and more than 2,000 overlapped with Dnmt3b−/− sites.
- Rescue experiments showed that wild-type Dnmt3b, but not the catalytically inactive V725G mutant or H3K36me3-binding mutants S277P and VW-RR, reduced the intermediate/first-exon ratio; cryptic RNAs were partly degraded by the RNA exosome, partly polyadenylated, and showed increased ribosome occupancy in intronic regions.
Methods
- Mouse E14 embryonic stem cells were used, with two independent Dnmt3b knockout lines generated by TALEN targeting of exon 17; SetD2, Dis3, and Rrp6 were silenced by shRNA, and Dnmt3b rescue used wild-type or mutant constructs.
- Genome-wide assays included ChIP-seq for Dnmt3b, RNA Pol II, H3K36me3, and other marks; whole-genome bisulfite sequencing; total, polyA+, and cytoplasmic RNA-seq; CAPIP-seq; DECAP-seq for single-base TSS mapping; and ART-seq ribosome profiling.
- Analyses mapped reads to an E14-specific mm9 variant and used TopHat/Cuffdiff, Bowtie, BSMAP, MACS, and custom scripts, with significance assessed by Wilcoxon rank-sum, chi-square, hypergeometric, and correlation tests.
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- The paper has no dedicated limitations section; it notes that alternative splicing and repetitive-element activation events in Dnmt3b−/− cells were sporadic, with only 4 of 2,563 genes showing intragenic alternative-promoter reactivation.
- The cancer relevance is discussed as an implication rather than tested directly, and the production of aberrant proteins from cryptic transcripts is suggested by ribosome profiling rather than demonstrated.
- Evident from the text: the work is restricted to mouse ESCs and relies heavily on knockout/knockdown and overexpression systems, so the findings may not generalize to other cell types or in vivo tumor settings.
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“In contrast, we observed a significant increase of RNA Pol II binding on intragenic regions when comparing Dnmt3b -/-to WT cells treated with DRB.This was especially true on introns and exons of q3-q4 genes using both antibodies (Fig. 2c, d and Extended Data Fig. 4f)”
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“Dnmt3b -/- cells displayed a significantly higher ratio starting from the second exon (Fig. 2a).”
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“We did not observe any significant changes in H3K36me3 and RNA Pol II genomic profiles when comparing untreated WT to Dnmt3b -/-cells (Fig. 2c, d and Extended Data Fig. 4d-f).”
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“1445 genes (18% of total genes having RPKM > 1) had a log2 ratio of intermediate exons versus first exon > 1 (Fig. 2b).”
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“Even though some alternative promoters' reactivation events take place in Dnmt3b -/-cells, the Dnmt3b loss did not show evidence of a general reactivation of these events at genome-wide level (Extended Data Fig. 3).”
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“Application of this technique to total RNA, showed a significant enrichment of CAP signal in intermediate intronic and exonic regions of Dnmt3b -/-transcripts (Extended Data Fig. 5f-g).”
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“DECAP-seq analysis in WT and Dnmt3b -/-cells revealed a significant increase of the transcription start sites (TSSs) in Dnmt3b -/-cells with respect to WT cells on the gene bodies of the q3 and q4 genes (Fig. 3a, b and Extended Data Fig. 6f, g).”
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“Introns half-life is generally lower with respect to the mRNAs half-life,”
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“Interestingly, within a region of 50 bp centred at the Dnmt3bdependent intragenic TSSs, we found a statistically significant enrichment of the CpG dinucleotide and several transcription factor binding motifs containing CpG sequence, including SP1 and members of the ETS family (Fig. 3g, h and Extended data Fig. 7a).”
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“The intronic RNA inclusion in Dnmt3b -/-cells remained always higher than in WT cells along the time course (Fig. 5f)”
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“This analysis identified 2627 highly expressed TSSs (RPM > 6) specific of the Dnmt3b -/-cells, 780 TSSs common in both the cell lines and 936 specific of WT cells (Fig. 3c).”
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“ChIP-seq analysis revealed the intragenic binding of the endogenous Dnmt3b especially on the genes belonging to the third and fourth quartiles (q3-q4) of gene expression and correlated with H3K36me3 histone modification (Fig. 1a-c and Extended Data Fig 1g-q).”
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“Whole genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) in WT or Dnmt3b -/-ESCs revealed a global reduction of genomic DNA methylation, with a significant decrease of the level of 5methylcytosine (5mC) on exons and introns (Fig. 1d and Extended Data Fig. 1r).”
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“Genome splitting in deciles of H3K36me3 occupancy showed that both Dnmt3b binding and DNA methylation loss in Dnmt3b -/-cells markedly correlate with the abundance of H3K36me3 (Fig. 1e).”
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“Our data confirm this observation on canonical TSSs, while on intragenic TSSs we observed the loss of the pyrimidine enrichment at position -1 and a reduced enrichment of the purine at position +1 (Fig. 3f).”
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“The intragenic TSSs identified in Dnmt3b -/-cells were within genomic regions with significantly higher H3K36me3 and Dnmt3b binding, showed loss of methylation upon Dnmt3b depletion, and lower nucleosome occupancy with respect to randomly chosen intragenic regions (Fig. 3e).”
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“Interestingly, almost all the highly expressed TSSs identified in Dnmt3b -/-cells can be found in the PolyA+ and cytosolic DECAP-seq fractions (Fig. 5c), even though, with a significantly lower level of expression with consequent reduction of the percentage of the total mapped reads (Fig. 5d, e)”
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“The analysis revealed that fast decay mRNAs are mainly involved in cell cycle and transcription biological processes, while slow decay mRNAs are more related to metabolism and translation.”
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“Both the Dnmt3b proteins showed similar intragenic binding profiles (Fig. 4g, h and Extended Data Fig. 9b, c), although only the cells expressing the WT protein showed an increase of DNA methylation levels (Extended Data Fig. 9d, e).”
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“We tested these hypotheses and, in agreement with the literature, we found few events of alternative splicing and activation of repetitive elements actually occurring in Dnmt3b -/-cells (data not shown). However, these regulations were sporadic in our model.”
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- Not checked yetcites [32] Maunakea, A. K., Chepelev, I., Cui, K. & Zhao, K. Intragenic DNA methylation modulates alternative splicing by recruiting MeCP2 to promote exon recognition. Cell Res. 23, 1256–1269 (2013) source
- Not checked yetcites [33] Yearim, A. et al. HP1 is involved in regulating the global impact of DNA methylation on alternative splicing. Cell Reports 10, 1122–1134 (2015) source
- Not checked yetcites [34] Jones, P. A. Functions of DNA methylation: islands, start sites, gene bodies and beyond. Nat. Rev. Genet. 13, 484–492 (2012) source
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“This analysis revealed 3560 high confident (RPM > 6) intragenic TSSs in SetD2 silenced cells, of which 2759 were specific of the SetD2 knockdown and more than 2000 were in common with the TSSs identified in Dnmt3b -/-cells (Extended Data Fig. 8l-o and 9a).”
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“The percentage of the total mapped reads specific for Dnmt3b -/-TSSs was 2.76%, while the percentage of common TSSs was 5.22%”
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“SetD2 knockdown resulted in a drastic reduction of H3K36me3 both in WT and Dnmt3b -/-cells and loss of Dnmt3b intragenic binding in WT cells (Fig. 4a-c and Extended Data Fig. 8a-f).”
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“Specific impairment of Dnmt3b binding and DNA methylation is observed in both the mutants compared to the rescue by using WT Dnmt3b enzyme.”
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“Dot intensity quantification from three biological replicates revealed that Dnmt3b WT (but not the V725G mutant) significantly (p=0.003)increases global DNA 5mC.”
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“Total RNA-seq (Extended Data Fig. 9f, g) revealed a significant reduction of the intermediates/first exon ratio in the cells expressing the WT Dnmt3b enzyme, but not in those expressing Dnmt3bV725G mutant (Fig. 4i, j).”
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“These Dnmt3b mutants showed lower intragenic binding with reduced DNA methylation activity (Extended Data Fig. 9i, j) and were unable to reduce the intermediates/first exon ratio (Extended Data Fig. 10a-d).”
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“Silencing of the Dis3 and Rrp6 component of the RNA exosome complex did not show changes in the total number of intragenic TSSs (Extended Data Fig. 10e-g), but a significant increase of their expression level (Extended Data Fig. 10h-k).”
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“Here, we show that the Dnmt3b-dependent intragenic DNA methylation protects the gene body from RNA Polymerase II spurious entry and cryptic transcription initiation.”
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“Furthermore, the spurious transcripts can be either degraded by the RNA exosome complex or capped, polyadenylated, and delivered to the ribosome to produce aberrant proteins.”
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“Using different genome-wide approaches, we demonstrate that this Dnmt3b function is dependent on its enzymatic activity and recruitment on the gene body by H3K36me3.”
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“Recent studies have reported that Dnmt3b binds preferentially to the gene bodies by interacting with the histone modification H3K36me3 10,11 .”
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- Not checked yetcites [10] Baubec, T. et al. Genomic profiling of DNA methyltransferases reveals a role for DNMT3B in genic methylation. Nature 520, 243–247 (2015) source
- Not checked yetcites [11] Morselli, M. et al. In vivo targeting of de novo DNA methylation by histone modifications in yeast and mouse. eLife 4, e06205 (2015) source
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“Indeed, the global DNA hypomethylation, especially occurring on intragenic regions, is a general feature of most tumours [35][36][37] .”
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- Not checked yetcites [35] Jones, P. A. & Baylin, S. B. The fundamental role of epigenetic events in cancer. Nat. Rev. Genet. 3, 415–428 (2002) source
- Not checked yetcites [36] Gaudet, F. et al. Induction of tumors in mice by genomic hypomethylation. Science 300, 489–492 (2003) source
- Not checked yetcites [37] Feinberg, A. P. & Vogelstein, B. Hypomethylation distinguishes genes of some human cancers from their normal counterparts. Nature 301, 89–92 (1983) source
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“confirming that a fraction of the spurious transcripts is actually degraded and indicating that not all cryptic transcripts undergo polyadenylation and nuclear export.”
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“Partial internal RNAs generated by the loss of transcription initiation fidelity, could impact on multiple biological processes impairing molecular mechanisms such as regulation of the gene expression, miRNA targeting, truncated proteins generation and others, thus favouring (stochastic) tumour cell heterogeneity and neoplastic predisposition.”
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“Analysis performed on technical and biological replicates, and validation by RT-qPCR on a subset of genes confirmed this result (Extended Data Fig. 2c-e).”
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“Methylation calling was performed using the methratio.pyscript provided with the BSMAP tool and comparative analyses were performed by using only CpG covered at least 5x in both wt and Dnmt3b -/-cells.”
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“RppH treated and untreated samples showed a double peak around 130bp corresponding to the dimers of adapter, but only the RppH treated sample showed a higher enrichment (in the red box) corresponding to the decapped RNA fragments.”
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“Moreover, several recent studies reported the loss/mutation of SETD2 and the consequent loss of H3K36me3 histone mark as a key event in promoting cancer growth and malignancy [38][39][40] .”
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- Not checked yetcites [38] Kanu, N. et al. SETD2 loss-of-function promotes renal cancer branched evolution through replication stress and impaired DNA repair. Oncogene 34, 5699–5708 (2015) source
- Not checked yetcites [39] Fontebasso, A. M. et al. Mutations in SETD2 and genes affecting histone H3K36 methylation target hemispheric high-grade gliomas. Acta Neuropathol. 125, 659–669 (2013) source
- Not checked yetcites [40] Duns, G. et al. Histone methyltransferase gene SETD2 is a novel tumor suppressor gene in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Cancer Res. 70, 4287–4291 (2010) source
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“Thus, only the reexpression of the WT Dnmt3b was able to rescue the loss of spurious intragenic transcription initiation in Dnmt3b -/-cells demonstrating that Dnmt3bdependent DNA methylation is responsible for preventing the occurrence of cryptic intragenic transcription.”
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“we generated two independent Dnmt3b knockout cell lines from mouse embryonic stem cell (ESC) line E14 to exclude experimental artefacts due to different genetic backgrounds, or prolonged cell culturing (Extended Data Fig. 1a-f).”
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“This result is in agreement with that previously observed in mESCs 54,55 , thus suggesting the bona fide of the experiment.”
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- Not checked yetcites [54] Sharova, L. V. et al. Database for mRNA half-life of 19 977 genes obtained by DNA microarray analysis of pluripotent and differentiating mouse embryonic stem cells. DNA Res. 16, 45–58 (2009) source
- Not checked yetcites [55] Schwanhäusser, B. et al. Global quantification of mammalian gene expression control. Nature 473, 337–342 (2011) source
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“The cells were mycoplasma free.”
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“The ChIP-seq data were validated by ChIP-qPCR, using several biological replicates, on target genomic regions and by not cross-linked co-immunoprecipitation experiments between Dnmt3b and H3K36me3 in WT or Dnmt3b -/-ESCs (Extended Data Fig.1o, p).”
§ Intragenic DNA methylation prevents spurious transcription initiation > Extended Data Figure 3: Dnmt3b loss does not extensively affect alternative promoter activation.
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“We now demonstrate that Dnmt3b-dependent DNA methylation on the gene body is responsible for the prevention of aberrant transcription initiation events necessary to guarantee the mRNA transcription initiation fidelity (Extended Data Fig. 12a).”
§ Intragenic DNA methylation prevents spurious transcription initiation > DNA methylation takes place both at the promoters and within the gene body.
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“Of note, Mock ESCs showed higher correlation with Dnmt3b mutant transfected ESCs (r = 0.99) with respect that Dnmt3b WT transfected ESCs (r = 0.95), thus suggesting that DNA methylation enzymatic activity is the major driver of the Dnmt3b-dependent transcriptome alterations.”
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“The number of intragenic TSSs and the reads distribution was similar in both the DECAP-seq replicates showing high overlap (Extended Data Fig. 6k-m)”
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“To investigate the distribution of the endogenous Dnmt3b we tested different antibodies and found one that was able to immunoprecipitate the endogenous Dnmt3b cross-linked to chromatin, which showed no background signal in Dnmt3b -/-(Extended Data Fig. 1g-i”
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“A pronounced sharp peak (red arrow) is present on the TSS only on the respective gene strand, thus reflecting both the cap-and strandnessspecificity of the method.”
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“in Thermopol buffer is able to mediate decapping and pyrophosphate removal from the 5´ end of RNA to leave a 5´ monophosphate RNA (5'-P).”
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The function of gene body DNA methylation in highly expressed genes has not yet been clarified.
“while the functional role of gene body DNA methylation in highly expressed genes has yet to be clarified.”
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Silencing SetD2 in mammalian cells causes cryptic transcription initiation in a large fraction of active genes.
“Silencing of SetD2 in mammalian cells leads to cryptic transcription initiation of a large fraction of active genes.”
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Silencing Dis3 and Rrp6 impairs RNA exosome degradation of cryptic transcripts.
“Silencing of the Dis3 and Rrp6 component of the RNA exosome complex did not show changes in the total number of intragenic TSSs (Extended Data Fig. 10e-g), but a significant increase of their expression level (Extended Data Fig. 10h-k).”
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“loss of DNA methyltransferase 3B (DNMT3B) in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells was shown to result in spurious initiation of alternative promoters21.”
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“The methyltransferase SETD2 deposits H3K36me355 after Pol2 passage56, which in turn recruits DNMT3B21 to maintain a repressive chromatin state57.”
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“As H3K36me3 recruits DNMT3B21, the gene body coverage of H3K36me3 (Supplementary Fig. 6b) coincides with the DNMT3B coverage”
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“Although discoveries regarding 5mC function and regulation have been made with genome-wide perturbation strategies, these methods are associated with pleiotropic phenotypes and inevitably confound the interpretation of results (35).”
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“We observed that genes in the A compartment had lower methylation at transcription starting site (TSS) but higher methylation at gene bodies than genes in the B compartment (Extended Data Fig. 11b), consistent with the distinct roles of DNA methylations at different regions47.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Neri, F., Rapelli, S., Krepelova, A., Incarnato, D., Parlato, C., Basile, G., Maldotti, M., Anselmi, F., & Oliviero, S.
- Affiliations
- Italian institute for Genomic Medicine (IT)
- University of Turin (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Neri, Francesco
- Oliviero, Salvatore
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2017-02-22
- Volume
- 543
- Issue
- 7643
- Pages
- 72-77
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2589386142
- Semantic Scholar
- 1e92f02718723d76aae589d66f60a1d9a01188d5
- Cited by
- 739
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2026: 54 · 2025: 53 · 2024: 79 · 2023: 92 · 2022: 97 · 2021: 92 · 2020: 75 · 2019: 89 · 2018: 63 · 2017: 43
- FWCI
- 30.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- other-oa
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Institutional Research Information System University of Turin (University of Turin) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (IG-2014)
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Cancer-related gene regulation
- Keywords
- gene body methylation, DNMT3B, RNA polymerase II, H3K36me3, SETD2, RNA exosome, epigenetic crosstalk, mouse embryonic stem cells, CpG methylation
- MeSH terms
- Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells, DNA Methyltransferase 3B, Animals, Cell Line, DNA, DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferases, Genes, Histones, Lysine, Neoplasms, Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase, Ribosomes, RNA Caps, RNA Polymerase II, RNA, Messenger, DNA Methylation, RNA Stability, Transcription Initiation Site, Polyadenylation, Epigenesis, Genetic, Mice, Transcription Initiation, Genetic
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