The molecular principles of gene regulation by Polycomb repressive complexes

NP Blackledge, RJ Klose - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Precise control of gene expression is fundamental to cell function and development.
Although ultimately gene expression relies on DNA-binding transcription factors to guide the …

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 …

Overview of histone modification

Y Zhang, Z Sun, J Jia, T Du, N Zhang, Y Tang… - Histone Mutations and …, 2021 - Springer
Epigenetics is the epi-information beyond the DNA sequence that can be inherited from
parents to offspring. From years of studies, people have found that histone modifications …

Molecular mechanisms directing PRC2 recruitment and H3K27 methylation

A Laugesen, JW Højfeldt, K Helin - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
The polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is a chromatin-associated methyltransferase
catalyzing mono-, di-, and trimethylation of lysine 27 on histone H3 (H3K27). This activity is …

[HTML][HTML] YY1 is a structural regulator of enhancer-promoter loops

AS Weintraub, CH Li, AV Zamudio, AA Sigova… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
There is considerable evidence that chromosome structure plays important roles in gene
control, but we have limited understanding of the proteins that contribute to structural …

[HTML][HTML] Genome regulation by polycomb and trithorax: 70 years and counting

B Schuettengruber, HM Bourbon, L Di Croce, G Cavalli - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Polycomb (PcG) and Trithorax (TrxG) group proteins are evolutionarily conserved chromatin-
modifying factors originally identified as part of an epigenetic cellular memory system that …

JARID2 and AEBP2 regulate PRC2 in the presence of H2AK119ub1 and other histone modifications

V Kasinath, C Beck, P Sauer, S Poepsel, J Kosmatka… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Histone modification activity of the polycomb repressive complexes 1 and
2 (PRC1 and PRC2) is critical for the establishment and maintenance of gene expression …

Single-cell multi-omics of human clonal hematopoiesis reveals that DNMT3A R882 mutations perturb early progenitor states through selective hypomethylation

AS Nam, N Dusaj, F Izzo, R Murali, RM Myers… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Somatic mutations in cancer genes have been detected in clonal expansions across healthy
human tissue, including in clonal hematopoiesis. However, because mutated and wild-type …

Histone H2AK119 mono-ubiquitination is essential for polycomb-mediated transcriptional repression

S Tamburri, E Lavarone, D Fernández-Pérez… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Polycomb group proteins (PcGs) maintain transcriptional repression to preserve cellular
identity in two distinct repressive complexes, PRC1 and PRC2, that modify histones by …

Context-specific Polycomb mechanisms in development

JJ Kim, RE Kingston - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are crucial chromatin regulators that maintain repression of
lineage-inappropriate genes and are therefore required for stable cell fate. Recent advances …