background: objective: the stem cell theory in the endometriosis began the advanced avenue of targeting these cells as the novel therapy to eliminate endometriosis. in this regards, studies showed that lovastatin alters the cells from a stem-like state to a more differentiated condition and reduces the stemness. the aim of this study was to investigate whether lovastatin treatment could influen...

background: dietary polyphenols, such as those found in green tea and red wine, are linked to antitumor activity. they are known to influence many signaling pathways epigenetically within the human body. in this regard, cpuk02 (15-oxosteviol benzyl ester) is a new ent-kaurenoid derivative of stevioside and exhibits strong anti-cancer activity in vitro and in vivo. nowadays, the role of epigenet...

  Objective(s): Stem cell differentiation into different cell lineages depends upon several factors, cell cycle control elements and intracellular signaling elements, including P15INK4b and P16INK4a genes. Epigenetics may be regarded as a control mechanism which is affected by these factors with respect to their promoter structure.   Materials and Methods: The CD34 + cord blood s...

Epigenetic changes play an essential role in cancer pathogenesis. It has been established by next-generation sequencing that more than 50% of the human cancers carry mutations in mechanisms involved in the organization of the chromatin and epigenetic regulations. DNA methylation is among the most common epigenetic changes in leukemia. In contrast to DNA mutations which are passively inherited f...

Disorder in re-methylation process of homocysteine to methionine due to mutation in betaine homocysteine methyltransferase enzyme (BHMT) coding gene, leads to decrease in S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) synthesis which takes part in DNA methylation as a methyl donor. As a result, it can promote hypo-methylation of DNA, chromosome instability, and chromosome missegregation, which in turn is one of t...

genome-wide association studies (gwas) have identified genetic variants contributing to the risk of cardiovascular disease (cvd) at the chromosome 9p21 locus. the chromosome 9p21 is an important susceptibility locus for several multifactorial diseases like ischemic stroke, aortic aneurysm, type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease (cad). f7 gene because of its role in activating the ...

A Cu-catalyzed oxidative cross-coupling of phenols with methylboronic acid to form aryl methyl ethers has been developed, expanding the scope Chan-Evans-Lam alkylation. Electron-deficient phenol derivatives a broad array functional groups are methylated in high yields. Increased reaction temperature and catalyst loading enables methylation substrates incorporating pyridine dihydroquinolone moti...

DNA methylation of cytosine‑guanine sites (CpGs) is associated with type 1 diabetes (T1D). The sequence methylated and non‑methylated in a specific genetic region constitutes its methyl‑haplotype. aim the present study was to identify insulin gene promoter (IGP) methyl‑haplotypes among children adolescents T1D suggest predictive model for discrimination cases controls according methyl‑haplotype...

Maintenance of cytosine methylation in plants is controlled by three DNA methyltransferases. MET1 maintains CG methylation, and DRM1/2 and CMT3 act redundantly to enforce non-CG methylation. RPS, a repetitive hypermethylated DNA fragment from Petunia hybrida, attracts DNA methylation when transferred into Petunia or other species. In Arabidopsis thaliana, which does not contain any RPS homologu...

RNA interference is a conserved process in which double-stranded RNA is processed into 21-25 nucleotide siRNAs that trigger posttranscriptional gene silencing. In addition, plants display a phenomenon termed RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) in which DNA with sequence identity to silenced RNA is de novo methylated at its cytosine residues. This methylation is not only at canonical CpG sites b...