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Links between DNA methylation and nucleosome occupancy in the human genome

Overview of attention for article published in Epigenetics & Chromatin, April 2017
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Title
Links between DNA methylation and nucleosome occupancy in the human genome
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Epigenetics & Chromatin, April 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13072-017-0125-5
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Clayton K. Collings, John N. Anderson

Abstract

DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification that is enriched in heterochromatin but depleted at active promoters and enhancers. However, the debate on whether or not DNA methylation is a reliable indicator of high nucleosome occupancy has not been settled. For example, the methylation levels of DNA flanking CTCF sites are higher in linker DNA than in nucleosomal DNA, while other studies have shown that the nucleosome core is the preferred site of methylation. In this study, we make progress toward understanding these conflicting phenomena by implementing a bioinformatics approach that combines MNase-seq and NOMe-seq data and by comprehensively profiling DNA methylation and nucleosome occupancy throughout the human genome. The results demonstrated that increasing methylated CpG density is correlated with nucleosome occupancy in the total genome and within nearly all subgenomic regions. Features with elevated methylated CpG density such as exons, SINE-Alu sequences, H3K36-trimethylated peaks, and methylated CpG islands are among the highest nucleosome occupied elements in the genome, while some of the lowest occupancies are displayed by unmethylated CpG islands and unmethylated transcription factor binding sites. Additionally, outside of CpG islands, the density of CpGs within nucleosomes was shown to be important for the nucleosomal location of DNA methylation with low CpG frequencies favoring linker methylation and high CpG frequencies favoring core particle methylation. Prominent exceptions to the correlations between methylated CpG density and nucleosome occupancy include CpG islands marked by H3K27me3 and CpG-poor heterochromatin marked by H3K9me3, and these modifications, along with DNA methylation, distinguish the major silencing mechanisms of the human epigenome. Thus, the relationship between DNA methylation and nucleosome occupancy is influenced by the density of methylated CpG dinucleotides and by other epigenomic components in chromatin.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Unknown 105 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 28 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 21%
Student > Master 11 10%
Student > Bachelor 7 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Other 8 7%
Unknown 24 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 41 38%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 21%
Chemistry 5 5%
Computer Science 3 3%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 2%
Other 6 6%
Unknown 27 25%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 July 2021.
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#3
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