Regulation, functions and transmission of bivalent chromatin during mammalian development

TA Macrae, J Fothergill-Robinson… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Cells differentiate and progress through development guided by a dynamic chromatin
landscape that mediates gene expression programmes. During development, mammalian …

Methylation across the central dogma in health and diseases: new therapeutic strategies

R Liu, E Zhao, H Yu, C Yuan, MN Abbas… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
The proper transfer of genetic information from DNA to RNA to protein is essential for cell-
fate control, development, and health. Methylation of DNA, RNAs, histones, and non-histone …

Tumor microenvironmental signals reshape chromatin landscapes to limit the functional potential of exhausted T cells

BR Ford, PDA Vignali, NL Rittenhouse… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Response rates to immunotherapy in solid tumors remain low due in part to the elevated
prevalence of terminally exhausted T cells, a hypofunctional differentiation state induced …

Epigenetic dynamics during capacitation of naïve human pluripotent stem cells

J Agostinho de Sousa, CW Wong, I Dunkel… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are of fundamental relevance in regenerative
medicine. Naïve hPSCs hold promise to overcome some of the limitations of conventional …

Decoding the spatial chromatin organization and dynamic epigenetic landscapes of macrophage cells during differentiation and immune activation

D Lin, W Xu, P Hong, C Wu, Z Zhang, S Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Immunocytes dynamically reprogram their gene expression profiles during differentiation
and immunoresponse. However, the underlying mechanism remains elusive. Here, we …

Polyploidy and myc proto-oncogenes promote stress adaptation via epigenetic plasticity and gene regulatory network rewiring

OV Anatskaya, AE Vinogradov - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polyploid cells demonstrate biological plasticity and stress adaptation in evolution;
development; and pathologies, including cardiovascular diseases, neurodegeneration, and …

Temporally-coordinated bivalent histone modifications of BCG1 enable fungal invasion and immune evasion

X Zhao, Y Wang, B Yuan, H Zhao, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Bivalent histone modifications, including functionally opposite H3K4me3 and H3K27me3
marks simultaneously on the same nucleosome, control various cellular processes by fine …

Tip60-mediated H2A. Z acetylation promotes neuronal fate specification and bivalent gene activation

JA Janas, L Zhang, JH Luu, J Demeter, L Meng… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Cell lineage specification is accomplished by a concerted action of chromatin remodeling
and tissue-specific transcription factors. However, the mechanisms that induce and maintain …

Flipons and small RNAs accentuate the asymmetries of pervasive transcription by the reset and sequence-specific microcoding of promoter conformation

A Herbert - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2023 - ASBMB
The role of alternate DNA conformations such as Z-DNA in the regulation of transcription is
currently underappreciated. These structures are encoded by sequences called flipons …

Histone bivalency regulates the timing of cerebellar granule cell development

K Mätlik, EE Govek, MR Paul, CD Allis… - Genes & …, 2023 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Developing neurons undergo a progression of morphological and gene expression changes
as they transition from neuronal progenitors to mature neurons. Here we used RNA-seq and …