Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Targeted systematic evolution of an RNA platform neutralizing DNMT1 function and controlling DNA methylation

  • Carla L. Esposito,
  • Ida Autiero,
  • Annamaria Sandomenico,
  • H. Li,
  • Mahmoud A. Bassal,
  • Maria L. Ibba,
  • Dongfang Wang,
  • Lucrezia Rinaldi,
  • Simone Ummarino,
  • Giulia Gaggi,
  • Marta Borchiellini,
  • Piotr Swiderski,
  • Menotti Ruvo,
  • Silvia Catuogno,
  • Alexander K. Ebralidze,
  • Marcin Kortylewski,
  • Vittorio de Franciscis,
  • Annalisa Di Ruscio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35222-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Here the authors generate an RNA-based platform to neutralize the major epigenetic player DNMT1. Using this targeted approach, aberrant DNA methylation in cancer can be corrected.