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Overview

Antoine H.F.M. Peters is affiliated with the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Switzerland. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with additional emphasis on Medicine. Within these areas, their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Reproductive Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Genetics.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Reproductive Biology and Fertility
  • Sperm and Testicular Function
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Cancer-related gene regulation
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research

Peters has contributed to multiple publications in prominent venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • The EMBO Journal
  • Human Reproduction
  • Nature

The scientist's recent papers cover a range of topics relevant to their fields, including:

  • Transcriptome and translatome co-evolution in mammals, 2020, Nature
  • A genome-scale map of DNA methylation turnover identifies site-specific dependencies of DNMT and TET activity, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Nucleosomes in mammalian sperm: conveying paternal epigenetic inheritance or subject to reprogramming between generations?, 2023, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
  • Mechanisms of maternal intergenerational epigenetic inheritance, 2021, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
  • SUMOylated PRC1 controls histone H3.3 deposition and genome integrity of embryonic heterochromatin, 2020, The EMBO Journal

Throughout their career, Peters has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Evgeniy A. Ozonov
  • Mark E. Gill
  • Yumiko Kawamura
  • Sébastien A. Smallwood
  • Grigorios Fanourgakis

This collaborative network and broad research scope contribute to the scientist's influence in molecular biology, reproductive medicine, and epigenetic research, providing insights into genetic regulation and inheritance mechanisms.

Best Publications

  • LSD1 demethylates repressive histone marks to promote androgen-receptor-dependent transcription.

    Eric Metzger;Melanie Wissmann;Na Yin;Judith M. Müller

  • Loss of the Suv39h histone methyltransferases impairs mammalian heterochromatin and genome stability.

    Antoine H.F.M. Peters;Dónal O'Carroll;Harry Scherthan;Karl Mechtler

  • Oncogene-induced senescence as an initial barrier in lymphoma development

    Melanie Braig;Soyoung Lee;Christoph Loddenkemper;Cornelia Rudolph

  • Suv39h-mediated histone H3 lysine 9 methylation directs DNA methylation to major satellite repeats at pericentric heterochromatin

    Bernhard Lehnertz;Yoshihide Ueda;Alwin A.H.A. Derijck;Ulrich Braunschweig

  • Partitioning and Plasticity of Repressive Histone Methylation States in Mammalian Chromatin

    Antoine H.F.M. Peters;Stefan Kubicek;Karl Mechtler;Roderick J. O'Sullivan

  • Higher-order structure in pericentric heterochromatin involves a distinct pattern of histone modification and an RNA component.

    Christèle Maison;Delphine Bailly;Antoine H.F.M. Peters;Jean-Pierre Quivy

  • Establishment of Histone H3 Methylation on the Inactive X Chromosome Requires Transient Recruitment of Eed-Enx1 Polycomb Group Complexes

    Jose Silva;Winifred Mak;Ilona Zvetkova;Ruth Appanah

  • A drying-down technique for the spreading of mammalian meiocytes from the male and female germline.

    A.H.F.M. Peters;A.W. Plug;M.J. van Vugt;P. de Boer

  • Repressive and active histone methylation mark distinct promoters in human and mouse spermatozoa

    Urszula Brykczynska;Mizue Hisano;Serap Erkek;Liliana Ramos

  • In utero undernourishment perturbs the adult sperm methylome and intergenerational metabolism

    Elizabeth J. Radford;Mitsuteru Ito;Hui Shi;Jennifer A. Corish

  • Epigenetic regulation of telomere length in mammalian cells by the Suv39h1 and Suv39h2 histone methyltransferases.

    Marta García-Cao;Roderick O'Sullivan;Antoine H F M Peters;Thomas Jenuwein

  • Epigenetic Marking Correlates with Developmental Potential in Cloned Bovine Preimplantation Embryos

    Fátima Santos;Valeri Zakhartchenko;Miodrag Stojkovic;Antoine Peters

  • Histone H3 lysine 9 methylation is an epigenetic imprint of facultative heterochromatin.

    Antoine H F M Peters;Jacqueline E Mermoud;Dónal O'Carroll;Dónal O'Carroll;Michaela Pagani

  • Disruption of histone methylation in developing sperm impairs offspring health transgenerationally

    Keith Siklenka;Serap Erkek;Serap Erkek;Maren Godmann;Romain Lambrot

  • Dynamic chromatin modifications characterise the first cell cycle in mouse embryos.

    Fátima Santos;Antoine H. Peters;Arie P. Otte;Wolf Reik

  • Role of the RB1 family in stabilizing histone methylation at constitutive heterochromatin

    Susana Gonzalo;Marta García-Cao;Mario F. Fraga;Gunnar Schotta

  • Polycomb group proteins Ezh2 and Rnf2 direct genomic contraction and imprinted repression in early mouse embryos

    Rémi Terranova;Shihori Yokobayashi;Michael B. Stadler;Arie P. Otte

  • Molecular determinants of nucleosome retention at CpG-rich sequences in mouse spermatozoa

    Serap Erkek;Mizue Hisano;Ching-Yeu Liang;Ching-Yeu Liang;Mark Gill

  • PRC1 and Suv39h specify parental asymmetry at constitutive heterochromatin in early mouse embryos

    Mareike Puschendorf;Rémi Terranova;Erwin Boutsma;Xiaohong Mao;Xiaohong Mao

  • Isolation and Characterization of Suv39h2, a Second Histone H3 Methyltransferase Gene That Displays Testis-Specific Expression

    Dónal O'Carroll;Harry Scherthan;Antoine H. F. M. Peters;Susanne Opravil

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Jenuwein
Thomas Jenuwein Max Planck Society
Michael B. Stadler
Michael B. Stadler Friedrich Miescher Institute
Dirk Schübeler
Dirk Schübeler Friedrich Miescher Institute
Bernd Dörken
Bernd Dörken Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Arie P. Otte
Arie P. Otte University of Amsterdam
Michael Kyba
Michael Kyba University of Minnesota
Maarten van Lohuizen
Maarten van Lohuizen Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
Dónal O'Carroll
Dónal O'Carroll University of Edinburgh
Christa Heyting
Christa Heyting Wageningen University & Research
Neil Brockdorff
Neil Brockdorff University of Oxford

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