Single-cell CUT&Tag profiles histone modifications and transcription factors in complex tissues

M Bartosovic, M Kabbe, G Castelo-Branco - Nature biotechnology, 2021 - nature.com
In contrast to single-cell approaches for measuring gene expression and DNA accessibility,
single-cell methods for analyzing histone modifications are limited by low sensitivity and …

Establishing and maintaining Hox profiles during spinal cord development

A Miller, JS Dasen - Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
The chromosomally-arrayed Hox gene family plays central roles in embryonic patterning
and the specification of cell identities throughout the animal kingdom. In vertebrates, the …

Regulators of Oligodendrocyte Differentiation

B Emery, TL Wood - Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Myelination has evolved as a mechanism to ensure fast and efficient propagation of nerve
impulses along axons. Within the central nervous system (CNS), myelination is carried out …

The Oligodendrocyte Transcription Factor 2 OLIG2 regulates transcriptional repression during myelinogenesis in rodents

K Zhang, S Chen, Q Yang, S Guo, Q Chen, Z Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
OLIG2 is a transcription factor that activates the expression of myelin-associated genes in
the oligodendrocyte-lineage cells. However, the mechanisms of myelin gene inactivation are …

The cholesterol transporter NPC1 is essential for epigenetic regulation and maturation of oligodendrocyte lineage cells

TJ Kunkel, A Townsend, KA Sullivan, J Merlet… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The intracellular cholesterol transporter NPC1 functions in late endosomes and lysosomes
to efflux unesterified cholesterol, and its deficiency causes Niemann–Pick disease Type C …

PRC1 sustains the integrity of neural fate in the absence of PRC2 function

A Sawai, S Pfennig, M Bulajić, A Miller… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Polycomb repressive complexes (PRCs) 1 and 2 maintain stable cellular memories of early
fate decisions by establishing heritable patterns of gene repression. PRCs repress …

The epigenetic landscape of oligodendrocyte lineage cells

I Selcen, E Prentice, P Casaccia - … of the new York Academy of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The epigenetic landscape of oligodendrocyte lineage cells refers to the cell‐specific
modifications of DNA, chromatin, and RNA that define a unique gene expression pattern of …

A cell state-specific metabolic vulnerability to GPX4-dependent ferroptosis in glioblastoma

MA Banu, A Dovas, MG Argenziano, W Zhao… - The EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
Glioma cells hijack developmental programs to control cell state. Here, we uncover a glioma
cell state-specific metabolic liability that can be therapeutically targeted. To model cell …

Identifying oligodendrocyte enhancers governing Plp1 expression

D Kim, H An, C Fan, Y Park - Human molecular genetics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Oligodendrocytes (OLs) produce myelin in the central nervous system (CNS), which
accelerates the propagation of action potentials and supports axonal integrity. As a major …

Nzf2 promotes oligodendrocyte differentiation and regeneration via repressing HDAC1-mediated histone deacetylation

X Xu, M Fang, L Chen, H Huang, ZM Dai, J Yang… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Proper axonal myelination and function of the vertebrate central nervous system rely largely
on the timely differentiation of oligodendrocytes (OLs), yet key regulatory factors remain …