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 …

Protein post-translational modifications and regulation of pluripotency in human stem cells

YC Wang, SE Peterson, JF Loring - Cell research, 2014 - nature.com
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are known to be essential mechanisms used by
eukaryotic cells to diversify their protein functions and dynamically coordinate their signaling …

Understanding cancer stem cell heterogeneity and plasticity

DG Tang - Cell research, 2012 - nature.com
Heterogeneity is an omnipresent feature of mammalian cells in vitro and in vivo. It has been
recently realized that even mouse and human embryonic stem cells under the best culture …

Deconstructing transcriptional heterogeneity in pluripotent stem cells

RM Kumar, P Cahan, AK Shalek, R Satija… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) are capable of dynamic interconversion between distinct
substates; however, the regulatory circuits specifying these states and enabling transitions …

Bivalent histone modifications in early embryogenesis

NL Vastenhouw, AF Schier - Current opinion in cell biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Histone modifications influence the interactions of transcriptional regulators with chromatin.
Studies in embryos and embryonic stem (ES) cells have uncovered histone modification …

Genetic and epigenetic stability of human pluripotent stem cells

RJ Lund, E Närvä, R Lahesmaa - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Studies using high-resolution genome-wide approaches have recently reported that
genomic and epigenomic alterations frequently accumulate in human pluripotent cells …

Human pluripotent stem cell-derived alveolar organoids for modeling pulmonary fibrosis and drug testing

JH Kim, GH An, JY Kim, R Rasaei, WJ Kim, X Jin… - Cell Death …, 2021 - nature.com
Detailed understanding of the pathogenesis and development of effective therapies for
pulmonary fibrosis (PF) have been hampered by lack of in vitro human models that …

Endogenous Wnt signalling in human embryonic stem cells generates an equilibrium of distinct lineage-specified progenitors

TA Blauwkamp, S Nigam, R Ardehali… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
The pluripotent nature of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) makes them convenient for
deriving therapeutically relevant cells. Here we show using Wnt reporter hESC lines that the …

Lengthened G1 phase indicates differentiation status in human embryonic stem cells

A Calder, I Roth-Albin, S Bhatia, C Pilquil… - Stem cells and …, 2013 - liebertpub.com
The cell cycle in pluripotent stem cells is notable for the brevity of the G1 phase, permitting
rapid proliferation and reducing the duration of differentiation signal sensitivity associated …

Bivalent chromatin marks developmental regulatory genes in the mouse embryonic germline in vivo

M Sachs, C Onodera, K Blaschke, KT Ebata, JS Song… - Cell reports, 2013 - cell.com
Developmental regulatory genes have both activating (H3K4me3) and repressive
(H3K27me3) histone modifications in embryonic stem cells (ESCs). This bivalent …