The cell cycle in stem cell proliferation, pluripotency and differentiation

L Liu, W Michowski, A Kolodziejczyk, P Sicinski - Nature cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Cyclins, cyclin-dependent kinases and other components of the core cell cycle machinery
drive cell division. Growing evidence indicates that this machinery operates in a distinct …

Structural insights into the functional diversity of the CDK–cyclin family

DJ Wood, JA Endicott - Open biology, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Since their characterization as conserved modules that regulate progression through the
eukaryotic cell cycle, cyclin-dependent protein kinases (CDKs) in higher eukaryotic cells are …

Exercise rejuvenates quiescent skeletal muscle stem cells in old mice through restoration of Cyclin D1

JO Brett, M Arjona, M Ikeda, M Quarta, A de Morrée… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Ageing impairs tissue repair. This defect is pronounced in skeletal muscle, whose
regeneration by muscle stem cells (MuSCs) is robust in young-adult animals, but inefficient …

Single-cell RNA-sequencing of differentiating iPS cells reveals dynamic genetic effects on gene expression

ASE Cuomo, DD Seaton, DJ McCarthy… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent developments in stem cell biology have enabled the study of cell fate decisions in
early human development that are impossible to study in vivo. However, understanding how …

Shear-induced Notch-Cx37-p27 axis arrests endothelial cell cycle to enable arterial specification

JS Fang, BG Coon, N Gillis, Z Chen, J Qiu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Establishment of a functional vascular network is rate-limiting in embryonic development,
tissue repair and engineering. During blood vessel formation, newly generated endothelial …

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 …

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 …

TETs compete with DNMT3 activity in pluripotent cells at thousands of methylated somatic enhancers

J Charlton, EJ Jung, AL Mattei, N Bailly, J Liao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Mammalian cells stably maintain high levels of DNA methylation despite expressing both
positive (DNMT3A/B) and negative (TET1-3) regulators. Here, we analyzed the independent …

Epigenetic and transcriptional regulations prime cell fate before division during human pluripotent stem cell differentiation

P Madrigal, S Deng, Y Feng, S Militi, KJ Goh… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Stem cells undergo cellular division during their differentiation to produce daughter cells
with a new cellular identity. However, the epigenetic events and molecular mechanisms …

A role for mitotic bookmarking of SOX2 in pluripotency and differentiation

C Deluz, ET Friman, D Strebinger, A Benke… - Genes & …, 2016 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Mitotic bookmarking transcription factors remain bound to chromosomes during mitosis and
were proposed to regulate phenotypic maintenance of stem and progenitor cells at the …