Is imprinting the result of “friendly fire” by the host defense system?

ZNF445 is a primary regulator of genomic imprinting

(2019) Nozomi Takahashi et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

The interactome of KRAB zinc finger proteins reveals the evolutionary history of their functional diversification

(2019) Pierre‐Yves Helleboid et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Imprint stability and plasticity during development

(2018) Sarah-Jayne Mackin et al.   REPRODUCTION

Human imprinting disorders: Principles, practice, problems and progress

(2017) Deborah J.G. Mackay et al.   European Journal of Medical Genetics

A placental growth factor is silenced in mouse embryos by the zinc finger protein ZFP568

(2017) Peng Yang et al.   SCIENCE

The Role of KRAB-ZFPs in Transposable Element Repression and Mammalian Evolution

(2017) Peng Yang et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

The DNA methyltransferase DNMT3C protects male germ cells from transposon activity

(2016) Joan Barau et al.   SCIENCE

ZNF10 inhibits HIV-1 LTR activity through interaction with NF-κB and Sp1 binding motifs

(2015) Hironori Nishitsuji et al.   FEBS LETTERS

The KRAB zinc finger protein ZFP809 is required to initiate epigenetic silencing of endogenous retroviruses

(2015) Gernot Wolf et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Allele-specific binding of ZFP57 in the epigenetic regulation of imprinted and non-imprinted monoallelic expression

(2015) Ruslan Strogantsev et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

An evolutionary arms race between KRAB zinc-finger genes ZNF91/93 and SVA/L1 retrotransposons

(2014) Frank M. J. Jacobs et al.   NATURE

Genomic Imprinting in Mammals

(2014) D. P. Barlow et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

A Retrotransposon-Driven Dicer Isoform Directs Endogenous Small Interfering RNA Production in Mouse Oocytes

(2013) Matyas Flemr et al.   CELL

De novo DNA methylation of endogenous retroviruses is shaped by KRAB-ZFPs/KAP1 and ESET

(2013) H. M. Rowe et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Mouse Oocyte Methylomes at Base Resolution Reveal Genome-Wide Accumulation of Non-CpG Methylation and Role of DNA Methyltransferases

(2013) Kenjiro Shirane et al.   PLoS Genetics

Trim28 Is Required for Epigenetic Stability During Mouse Oocyte to Embryo Transition

(2012) D. M. Messerschmidt et al.   SCIENCE

Airn Transcriptional Overlap, But Not Its lncRNA Products, Induces Imprinted Igf2r Silencing

(2012) P. A. Latos et al.   SCIENCE

H3K9me2 attracts PGC7 in the zygote to prevent Tet3-mediated oxidation of 5-methylcytosine

(2012) P. E. Szabo et al.   Journal of Molecular Cell Biology

Retrotransposition and genomic imprinting

(2011) M. Cowley et al.   Briefings in Functional Genomics

Coevolution of retroelements and tandem zinc finger genes

(2011) J. H. Thomas et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

In Embryonic Stem Cells, ZFP57/KAP1 Recognize a Methylated Hexanucleotide to Affect Chromatin and DNA Methylation of Imprinting Control Regions

(2011) Simon Quenneville et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Dynamic CpG island methylation landscape in oocytes and preimplantation embryos

(2011) Sébastien A Smallwood et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genomic imprinting: the emergence of an epigenetic paradigm

(2011) Anne C. Ferguson-Smith   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Short Interspersed Element (SINE) Depletion and Long Interspersed Element (LINE) Abundance Are Not Features Universally Required for Imprinting

(2011) Michael Cowley et al.   PLoS One

Role for piRNAs and Noncoding RNA in de Novo DNA Methylation of the Imprinted Mouse Rasgrf1 Locus

(2011) T. Watanabe et al.   SCIENCE

Mammalian Genomic Imprinting

(2011) M. S. Bartolomei et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

A Maternal-Zygotic Effect Gene, Zfp57, Maintains Both Maternal and Paternal Imprints

(2008) Xiajun Li et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

DNA methylation of retrotransposon genes is regulated by Piwi family members MILI and MIWI2 in murine fetal testes

(2008) S. Kuramochi-Miyagawa et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

A piRNA Pathway Primed by Individual Transposons Is Linked to De Novo DNA Methylation in Mice

(2008) Alexei A. Aravin et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Hypomethylation of multiple imprinted loci in individuals with transient neonatal diabetes is associated with mutations in ZFP57

(2008) Deborah J G Mackay et al.   NATURE GENETICS