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Caroline Lonez Marc F. Lensink Emilie Kleiren Jean-Marie Vanderwinden Jean-Marie Ruysschaert Michel Vandenbranden 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2010,67(3):483-494
Addition of co-lipids into cationic lipid formulations is considered as promoting cell delivery of DNA by enhancing fusion
processes with cell membranes. Here, by combining FRET and confocal microscopy, we demonstrate that some cationic lipids do
not require a co-lipid to fuse efficiently with cells. These cationic lipids are able to self-organize into bilayers that
are stable enough to form liposomes, while presenting some destabilizing properties reminiscent of the conically shaped fusogenic
co-lipid, DOPE. We therefore analyzed the resident lipid structures in cationic bilayers by molecular dynamics simulations,
clustering the individual lipid structures into populations of similarly shaped molecules, as opposed to the classical approach
of using the static packing parameter to define the lipid shapes. Comparison of fusogenic properties with these lipid populations
suggests that the ratio of cylindrical versus conical lipid populations correlates with the ability to fuse with cell membranes. 相似文献
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Viré E Brenner C Deplus R Blanchon L Fraga M Didelot C Morey L Van Eynde A Bernard D Vanderwinden JM Bollen M Esteller M Di Croce L de Launoit Y Fuks F 《Nature》2006,439(7078):871-874
The establishment and maintenance of epigenetic gene silencing is fundamental to cell determination and function. The essential epigenetic systems involved in heritable repression of gene activity are the Polycomb group (PcG) proteins and the DNA methylation systems. Here we show that the corresponding silencing pathways are mechanistically linked. We find that the PcG protein EZH2 (Enhancer of Zeste homolog 2) interacts-within the context of the Polycomb repressive complexes 2 and 3 (PRC2/3)-with DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) and associates with DNMT activity in vivo. Chromatin immunoprecipitations indicate that binding of DNMTs to several EZH2-repressed genes depends on the presence of EZH2. Furthermore, we show by bisulphite genomic sequencing that EZH2 is required for DNA methylation of EZH2-target promoters. Our results suggest that EZH2 serves as a recruitment platform for DNA methyltransferases, thus highlighting a previously unrecognized direct connection between two key epigenetic repression systems. 相似文献
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