Pioneer factors as master regulators of the epigenome and cell fate

A Balsalobre, J Drouin - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Pioneer factors are transcription factors with the unique ability to initiate opening of closed
chromatin. The stability of cell identity relies on robust mechanisms that maintain the …

Advances in epigenetics link genetics to the environment and disease

G Cavalli, E Heard - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Epigenetic research has accelerated rapidly in the twenty-first century, generating justified
excitement and hope, but also a degree of hype. Here we review how the field has evolved …

Pioneer factors: roles and their regulation in development

A Barral, KS Zaret - Trends in Genetics, 2024 - cell.com
Pioneer factors are a subclass of transcription factors that can bind and initiate opening of
silent chromatin regions. Pioneer factors subsequently regulate lineage-specific genes and …

Mitotic bookmarking by SWI/SNF subunits

Z Zhu, X Chen, A Guo, T Manzano, PJ Walsh, KM Wills… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
For cells to initiate and sustain a differentiated state, it is necessary that a 'memory'of this
state is transmitted through mitosis to the daughter cells,–. Mammalian switch/sucrose non …

Pioneer transcription factors shape the epigenetic landscape

A Mayran, J Drouin - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2018 - jbc.org
Pioneer transcription factors have the unique and important role of unmasking chromatin
domains during development to allow the implementation of new cellular programs …

Mitotic transcription and waves of gene reactivation during mitotic exit

KC Palozola, G Donahue, H Liu, GR Grant, JS Becker… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Although the genome is generally thought to be transcriptionally silent during mitosis,
technical limitations have prevented sensitive map** of transcription during mitosis and …

Cycling through developmental decisions: how cell cycle dynamics control pluripotency, differentiation and reprogramming

A Soufi, S Dalton - Development, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
A strong connection exists between the cell cycle and mechanisms required for executing
cell fate decisions in a wide-range of developmental contexts. Terminal differentiation is …

Cell cycle gene regulation dynamics revealed by RNA velocity and deep-learning

A Riba, A Oravecz, M Durik, S Jiménez, V Alunni… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the fact that the cell cycle is a fundamental process of life, a detailed quantitative
understanding of gene regulation dynamics throughout the cell cycle is far from complete …

[HTML][HTML] H3K27ac bookmarking promotes rapid post-mitotic activation of the pluripotent stem cell program without impacting 3D chromatin reorganization

B Pelham-Webb, A Polyzos, L Wojenski, A Kloetgen… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
During self-renewal, cell-type-defining features are drastically perturbed in mitosis and must
be faithfully reestablished upon G1 entry, a process that remains largely elusive. Here, we …

Mitotic bookmarking redundancy by nuclear receptors in pluripotent cells

A Chervova, A Molliex, HI Baymaz, RX Coux… - Nature Structural & …, 2024 - nature.com
Mitotic bookmarking transcription factors (TFs) are thought to mediate rapid and accurate
reactivation after mitotic gene silencing. However, the loss of individual bookmarking TFs …