Epigenetics: Development and Disease

1. Chromatin Organization, Epigenetics and Differentiation: An Evolutionary Perspective
Sujata Kumari, Amrutha Swaminathan, Snehajyoti Chatterjee, Parijat Senapati, Ramachandran Boopathi, Tapas K. Kundu

2. Secondary Structures of the Core Histone N-terminal Tails: Their Role in Regulating Chromatin Structure
Louis L. Preez, Hugh-G. Patterton

3. Megabase Replication Domains Along the Human Genome: Relation to Chromatin Structure and Genome Organisation
Benjamin Audit, Lamia Zaghloul, Antoine Baker, Alain Arneodo, Chun-Long Chen, Yves d’Aubenton-Carafa, Claude Thermes

4. Role of DNA Methyltransferases in Epigenetic Regulation in Bacteria
Ritesh Kumar, Desirazu N. Rao

5. Metabolic Aspects of Epigenome: Coupling of S-Adenosylmethionine Synthesis and Gene Regulation on Chromatin by SAMIT Module
Kazuhiko Igarashi, Yasutake Katoh

6. Epigenetic Regulation of Male Germ Cell Differentiation
Oliver Meikar, Matteo Ros, Noora Kotaja

7. Epigenetic Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Development and Differentiation
Narendra Bharathy, Belinda Mei Tze Ling, Reshma Taneja

8. Small Changes, Big Effects: Chromatin Goes Aging
Asmitha Lazarus, Kushal Kr. Banerjee, Ullas Kolthur-Seetharam

9. Homeotic Gene Regulation: A Paradigm for Epigenetic Mechanisms Underlying Organismal Development
Navneet K. Matharu, Vasanthi Dasari, Rakesh K. Mishra

10. Basic Mechanisms in RNA Polymerase I Transcription of the Ribosomal RNA Genes
Sarah J. Goodfellow, Joost C. B. M. Zomerdijk

11. The RNA Polymerase II Transcriptional Machinery and Its Epigenetic Context
Maria J. Barrero, Sohail Malik

12. RNA Polymerase III Transcription – Regulated by Chromatin Structure and Regulator of Nuclear Chromatin Organization
Chiara Pascali, Martin Teichmann

13. The Role of DNA Methylation and Histone Modifications in Transcriptional Regulation in Humans
Jaime L. Miller, Patrick A. Grant

14. Histone Variants and Transcription Regulation
Cindy Law, Peter Cheung

15. Noncoding RNAs in Chromatin Organization and Transcription Regulation: An Epigenetic View
Karthigeyan Dhanasekaran, Sujata Kumari, Chandrasekhar Kanduri

16. Chromatin Structure and Organization: The Relation with Gene Expression During Development and Disease
Benoît Moindrot, Philippe Bouvet, Fabien Mongelard

17. Cancer: An Epigenetic Landscape
Karthigeyan Dhanasekaran, Mohammed Arif, Tapas K. Kundu

18. Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer Stem Cell Gene Expression
Sharmila A. Bapat

19. Role of Epigenetic Mechanisms in the Vascular Complications of Diabetes
Marpadga A. Reddy, Rama Natarajan

20. Epigenetic Changes in Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases
Helene Myrtue Nielsen, Jörg Tost

21. Epigenetic Regulation of HIV-1 Persistence and Evolving Strategies for Virus Eradication
Neeru Dhamija, Pratima Rawat, Debashis Mitra

22. Epigenetics in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Diseases
Sueli Marques, Tiago Fleming Outeiro

23. Cellular Redox, Epigenetics and Diseases
Shyamal K. Goswami

24. Stem Cell Plasticity in Development and Cancer: Epigenetic Origin of Cancer Stem Cells
Mansi Shah, Cinzia Allegrucci

25. Histone Acetylation as a Therapeutic Target
B. Ruthrotha Selvi, Snehajyoti Chatterjee, Rahul Modak, M. Eswaramoorthy, Tapas K. Kundu

26. DNA Methylation and Cancer
Gopinathan Gokul, Sanjeev Khosla

27. Role of Epigenetics in Inflammation-Associated Diseases
Muthu K. Shanmugam, Gautam Sethi

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Plasmodium falciparum: Epigenetic Control of var Gene Regulation and Disease
Abhijit S. Deshmukh, Sandeep Srivastava, Suman Kumar Dhar

Keywords: Biomedicine, Gene Expression, Posttranslational Modification, Cancer Research, Developmental Biology, Stem Cells