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ProfessorBorisLenhard

Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Sciences

Professor of Computational Biology
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 0911b.lenhard Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mr Alastair Douglas Ivor Williams +44 (0)20 3313 4318

 
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Location

 

6.12CLMS BuildingHammersmith Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Lewis:2020:10.1371/journal.pgen.1008864,
author = {Lewis, SH and Ross, L and Bain, SA and Pahita, E and Smith, SA and Cordaux, R and Miska, EA and Lenhard, B and Jiggins, FM and Sarkies, P},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pgen.1008864},
journal = {PLoS Genetics},
pages = {1--24},
title = {­­­­­­Widespread conservation and lineage-specific diversification of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns across arthropods},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008864},
volume = {16},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Cytosine methylation is an ancient epigenetic modification yet its function and extent within genomes is highly variable across eukaryotes. In mammals, methylation controls transposable elements and regulates the promoters of genes. In insects, DNA methylation is generally restricted to a small subset of transcribed genes, with both intergenic regions and transposable elements (TEs) depleted of methylation. The evolutionary origin and the function of these methylation patterns are poorly understood. Here we characterise the evolution of DNA methylation across the arthropod phylum. While the common ancestor of the arthropods had low levels of TE methylation and did not methylate promoters, both of these functions have evolved independently in centipedes and mealybugs. In contrast, methylation of the exons of a subset of transcribed genes is ancestral and widely conserved across the phylum, but has been lost in specific lineages. A similar set of genes is methylated in all species that retained exon-enriched methylation. We show that these genes have characteristic patterns of expression correlating to broad transcription initiation sites and well-positioned nucleosomes, providing new insights into potential mechanisms driving methylation patterns over hundreds of millions of years.
AU  - Lewis,SH
AU  - Ross,L
AU  - Bain,SA
AU  - Pahita,E
AU  - Smith,SA
AU  - Cordaux,R
AU  - Miska,EA
AU  - Lenhard,B
AU  - Jiggins,FM
AU  - Sarkies,P
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008864
EP  - 24
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1553-7390
SP  - 1
TI  - ­­­­­­Widespread conservation and lineage-specific diversification of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns across arthropods
T2  - PLoS Genetics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008864
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000545728900001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1008864
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/80581
VL  - 16
ER  -
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