The interplay of epigenetic marks during stem cell differentiation and development

Y Atlasi, HG Stunnenberg - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Chromatin, the template for epigenetic regulation, is a highly dynamic entity that is constantly
reshaped during early development and differentiation. Epigenetic modification of chromatin …

Active turnover of DNA methylation during cell fate decisions

A Parry, S Rulands, W Reik - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a key layer of epigenetic regulation. The deposition of methylation marks
relies on the catalytic activity of DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs), and their active removal …

Promoter-proximal CTCF binding promotes distal enhancer-dependent gene activation

N Kubo, H Ishii, X Xiong, S Bianco… - Nature structural & …, 2021 - nature.com
The CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) works together with the cohesin complex to drive the
formation of chromatin loops and topologically associating domains, but its role in gene …

scNMT-seq enables joint profiling of chromatin accessibility DNA methylation and transcription in single cells

SJ Clark, R Argelaguet, CA Kapourani… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Parallel single-cell sequencing protocols represent powerful methods for investigating
regulatory relationships, including epigenome-transcriptome interactions. Here, we report a …

Parallel single-cell sequencing links transcriptional and epigenetic heterogeneity

C Angermueller, SJ Clark, HJ Lee, IC Macaulay… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We report scM&T-seq, a method for parallel single-cell genome-wide methylome and
transcriptome sequencing that allows for the discovery of associations between …

Single-cell epigenomics: Recording the past and predicting the future

G Kelsey, O Stegle, W Reik - Science, 2017 - science.org
Single-cell multi-omics has recently emerged as a powerful technology by which different
layers of genomic output—and hence cell identity and function—can be recorded …

Intracellular α-ketoglutarate maintains the pluripotency of embryonic stem cells

BW Carey, LWS Finley, JR Cross, CD Allis… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The role of cellular metabolism in regulating cell proliferation and differentiation remains
poorly understood. For example, most mammalian cells cannot proliferate without …

Dynamic stem cell states: naive to primed pluripotency in rodents and humans

L Weinberger, M Ayyash, N Novershtern… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2016 - nature.com
The molecular mechanisms and signalling pathways that regulate the in vitro preservation of
distinct pluripotent stem cell configurations, and their induction in somatic cells by direct …

Single-cell genome-wide bisulfite sequencing for assessing epigenetic heterogeneity

SA Smallwood, HJ Lee, C Angermueller, F Krueger… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
We report a single-cell bisulfite sequencing (scBS-seq) method that can be used to
accurately measure DNA methylation at up to 48.4% of CpG sites. Embryonic stem cells …

[PDF][PDF] Resetting transcription factor control circuitry toward ground-state pluripotency in human

Y Takashima, G Guo, R Loos, J Nichols, G Ficz… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Current human pluripotent stem cells lack the transcription factor circuitry that governs the
ground state of mouse embryonic stem cells (ESC). Here, we report that short-term …