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 …

Direct lineage conversions: unnatural but useful?

T Vierbuchen, M Wernig - Nature biotechnology, 2011 - nature.com
Classic experiments such as somatic cell nuclear transfer into oocytes and cell fusion
demonstrated that differentiated cells are not irreversibly committed to their fate. More recent …

ChEA: transcription factor regulation inferred from integrating genome-wide ChIP-X experiments

A Lachmann, H Xu, J Krishnan, SI Berger… - …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Motivation: Experiments such as ChIP-chip, ChIP-seq, ChIP-PET and DamID (the
four methods referred herein as ChIP-X) are used to profile the binding of transcription …

The ground state of embryonic stem cell self-renewal

QL Ying, J Wray, J Nichols, L Batlle-Morera, B Doble… - nature, 2008 - nature.com
In the three decades since pluripotent mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells were first described,
they have been derived and maintained by using various empirical combinations of feeder …

[HTML][HTML] Master transcription factors determine cell-type-specific responses to TGF-β signaling

AC Mullen, DA Orlando, JJ Newman, J Lovén… - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) signaling, mediated through the transcription
factors Smad2 and Smad3 (Smad2/3), directs different responses in different cell types. Here …

Combinatorial transcriptional control in blood stem/progenitor cells: genome-wide analysis of ten major transcriptional regulators

NK Wilson, SD Foster, X Wang, K Knezevic, J Schütte… - Cell stem cell, 2010 - cell.com
Combinatorial transcription factor (TF) interactions control cellular phenotypes and,
therefore, underpin stem cell formation, maintenance, and differentiation. Here, we report the …

Dppa2 and Dppa4 directly regulate the Dux-driven zygotic transcriptional program

M Eckersley-Maslin, C Alda-Catalinas… - Genes & …, 2019 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The molecular regulation of zygotic genome activation (ZGA) in mammals remains an
exciting area of research. Primed mouse embryonic stem cells contain a rare subset of “2C …

Gata3 regulates trophoblast development downstream of Tead4 and in parallel to Cdx2

A Ralston, BJ Cox, N Nishioka, H Sasaki… - …, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
The mouse blastocyst and stem cells derived from its tissue lineages provide a unique
genetic system for examining the establishment and loss of pluripotency. The transcription …

Zscan4 regulates telomere elongation and genomic stability in ES cells

M Zalzman, G Falco, LV Sharova, A Nishiyama… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Exceptional genomic stability is one of the hallmarks of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells.
However, the genes contributing to this stability remain obscure. We previously identified …

Induction of pluripotency in mouse somatic cells with lineage specifiers

J Shu, C Wu, Y Wu, Z Li, S Shao, W Zhao, X Tang… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
The reprogramming factors that induce pluripotency have been identified primarily from
embryonic stem cell (ESC)-enriched, pluripotency-associated factors. Here, we report that …