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 …

The kaleidoscope of microglial phenotypes

ML Dubbelaar, L Kracht, BJL Eggen… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Gene expression analyses of microglia, the tissue-resident macrophages of the central
nervous system (CNS), led to the identification of homeostatic as well as neurological …

Dissecting immune circuits by linking CRISPR-pooled screens with single-cell RNA-seq

DA Jaitin, A Weiner, I Yofe, D Lara-Astiaso… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
In multicellular organisms, dedicated regulatory circuits control cell type diversity and
responses. The crosstalk and redundancies within these circuits and substantial cellular …

Expression of the transcription factor PU. 1 induces the generation of microglia-like cells in human cortical organoids

B Cakir, Y Tanaka, FR Kiral, Y ** macrophage identity and their effect on tissue homeostasis
I Amit, DR Winter, S Jung - Nature immunology, 2016 - nature.com
Macrophages provide a critical systemic network cells of the innate immune system.
Emerging data suggest that in addition, they have important tissue-specific functions that …

Direct conversion of fibroblasts to functional neurons by defined factors

T Vierbuchen, A Ostermeier, ZP Pang, Y Kokubu… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Cellular differentiation and lineage commitment are considered to be robust and irreversible
processes during development. Recent work has shown that mouse and human fibroblasts …

Direct lineage reprogramming: strategies, mechanisms, and applications

J Xu, Y Du, H Deng - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
The direct lineage reprogramming of one specialized cell type into another using defined
factors has fundamentally re-shaped traditional concepts regarding the epigenetic stability of …