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 …

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 …

Histone editing elucidates the functional roles of H3K27 methylation and acetylation in mammals

A Sankar, F Mohammad, AK Sundaramurthy, H Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Posttranslational modifications of histones (PTMs) are associated with specific chromatin
and gene expression states,. Although studies in Drosophila melanogaster have revealed …

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 …

Variant PRC1 complex-dependent H2A ubiquitylation drives PRC2 recruitment and polycomb domain formation

NP Blackledge, AM Farcas, T Kondo, HW King… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Chromatin modifying activities inherent to polycomb repressive complexes PRC1 and PRC2
play an essential role in gene regulation, cellular differentiation, and development. However …

PRC1 catalytic activity is central to polycomb system function

NP Blackledge, NA Fursova, JR Kelley, MK Huseyin… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
The Polycomb repressive system is an essential chromatin-based regulator of gene
expression. Despite being extensively studied, how the Polycomb system selects its target …

A double take on bivalent promoters

P Voigt, WW Tee, D Reinberg - Genes & development, 2013 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Histone modifications and chromatin-associated protein complexes are crucially involved in
the control of gene expression, supervising cell fate decisions and differentiation. Many …

Chromatin modifiers and remodellers: regulators of cellular differentiation

T Chen, SYR Dent - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Cellular differentiation is, by definition, epigenetic. Genome-wide profiling of pluripotent cells
and differentiated cells suggests global chromatin remodelling during differentiation, which …

The Polycomb complex PRC2 and its mark in life

R Margueron, D Reinberg - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Polycomb group proteins maintain the gene-expression pattern of different cells that is set
during early development by regulating chromatin structure. In mammals, two main …

The complexity of PRC2 subcomplexes

G van Mierlo, GJC Veenstra, M Vermeulen, H Marks - Trends in cell biology, 2019 - cell.com
Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is a multisubunit protein complex essential for the
development of multicellular organisms. Recruitment of PRC2 to target genes, followed by …