Epigenetics-targeted drugs: Current paradigms and future challenges

W Dai, X Qiao, Y Fang, R Guo, P Bai, S Liu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024‏ - nature.com
Epigenetics governs a chromatin state regulatory system through five key mechanisms: DNA
modification, histone modification, RNA modification, chromatin remodeling, and non-coding …

Insights into epigenetic patterns in mammalian early embryos

R Xu, C Li, X Liu, S Gao - Protein & cell, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Mammalian fertilization begins with the fusion of two specialized gametes, followed by major
epigenetic remodeling leading to the formation of a totipotent embryo. During the …

Mouse totipotent stem cells captured and maintained through spliceosomal repression

H Shen, M Yang, S Li, J Zhang, B Peng, C Wang… - Cell, 2021‏ - cell.com
Since establishment of the first embryonic stem cells (ESCs), in vitro culture of totipotent cells
functionally and molecularly comparable with in vivo blastomeres with embryonic and …

scm6A-seq reveals single-cell landscapes of the dynamic m6A during oocyte maturation and early embryonic development

H Yao, CC Gao, D Zhang, J Xu, G Song, X Fan… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Abstract N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) has been demonstrated to regulate RNA metabolism
and various biological processes, including gametogenesis and embryogenesis. However …

The first two blastomeres contribute unequally to the human embryo

S Junyent, M Meglicki, R Vetter, R Mandelbaum… - Cell, 2024‏ - cell.com
Retrospective lineage reconstruction of humans predicts that dramatic clonal imbalances in
the body can be traced to the 2-cell stage embryo. However, whether and how such clonal …

Profiling and functional characterization of maternal mRNA translation during mouse maternal-to-zygotic transition

C Zhang, M Wang, Y Li, Y Zhang - Science advances, 2022‏ - science.org
Translational regulation plays an important role in gene expression and function. Although
the transcriptional dynamics of mouse preimplantation embryos have been well …

RNA damage compartmentalization by DHX9 stress granules

Y Zhou, A Panhale, M Shvedunova, M Balan… - Cell, 2024‏ - cell.com
Biomolecules incur damage during stress conditions, and damage partitioning represents a
vital survival strategy for cells. Here, we identified a distinct stress granule (SG), marked by …

Principles and mechanisms of asymmetric cell division

B Sunchu, C Cabernard - Development, 2020‏ - journals.biologists.com
Asymmetric cell division (ACD) is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism used by
prokaryotes and eukaryotes alike to control cell fate and generate cell diversity. A detailed …

LncRNA INHEG promotes glioma stem cell maintenance and tumorigenicity through regulating rRNA 2'-O-methylation

L Liu, Z Liu, Q Liu, W Wu, P Lin, X Liu, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) ranks among the most lethal of human cancers, containing glioma stem
cells (GSCs) that display therapeutic resistance. Here, we report that the lncRNA INHEG is …

Principles of self-organization of the mammalian embryo

M Zhu, M Zernicka-Goetz - Cell, 2020‏ - cell.com
Early embryogenesis is a conserved and self-organized process. In the mammalian embryo,
the potential for self-organization is manifested in its extraordinary developmental plasticity …