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EpiFactors: a comprehensive database of human epigenetic factors and complexes

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Medvedeva, Yulia A., Lennartsson, Andreas, Ehsani, Rezvan, Kulakovskiy, Ivan V., Vorontsov, Ilya E., Panahandeh, Pouda, Khimulya, Grigory, Kasukawa, Takeya +2 more·2015·Database

Abstract

Epigenetics refers to stable and long-term alterations of cellular traits that are not caused by changes in the DNA sequence per se. Rather, covalent modifications of DNA and histones affect gene expression and genome stability via proteins that recognize and act upon such modifications. Many enzymes that catalyse epigenetic modifications or are critical for enzymatic complexes have been discovered, and this is encouraging investigators to study the role of these proteins in diverse normal and pathological processes. Rapidly growing knowledge in the area has resulted in the need for a resource that compiles, organizes and presents curated information to the researchers in an easily accessible and user-friendly form. Here we present EpiFactors, a manually curated database providing information about epigenetic regulators, their complexes, targets and products. EpiFactors contains information on 815 proteins, including 95 histones and protamines. For 789 of these genes, we include expressions values across several samples, in particular a collection of 458 human primary cell samples (for approximately 200 cell types, in many cases from three individual donors), covering most mammalian cell steady states, 255 different cancer cell lines (representing approximately 150 cancer subtypes) and 134 human postmortem tissues. Expression values were obtained by the FANTOM5 consortium using Cap Analysis of Gene Expression technique. EpiFactors also contains information on 69 protein complexes that are involved in epigenetic regulation. The resource is practical for a wide range of users, including biologists, pharmacologists and clinicians.

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Medvedeva, Y. A., Lennartsson, A., Ehsani, R., Kulakovskiy, I. V., Vorontsov, I. E., Panahandeh, P., Khimulya, G., Kasukawa, T., The FANTOM Consortium, & Drabløs, F.
Affiliations
  • Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)
  • Karolinska Institutet (SE)
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
  • Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology (RU)
  • RIKEN (JP)
Corresponding author
Medvedeva, Yulia A.
Venue
Database
Published
2015
Volume
2015
Pages
bav067
ISSN
1758-0463 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2166959941
Cited by
298
References
67
Citations by year
2026: 21 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 45 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 28 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 8
FWCI
7.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
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  • Database (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (submittedVersion)
  • LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
  • Swedish Cancer Foundation
  • Russian Foundation for Fundamental Investigations
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
  • Dynasty Foundation
  • Barncancerfonden
  • RIKEN
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 › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Keywords
epigenetic factors, epigenetic regulators, protein complexes, histones, protamine, gene expression, cancer cell lines, FANTOM5, CAGE, curated database
MeSH terms
Histones, Humans, Neoplasm Proteins, Neoplasms, Protamines, Databases, Genetic, Genomic Instability, Epigenesis, Genetic, Epigenomics

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