Ubiquitin ligases: guardians of mammalian development

DA Cruz Walma, Z Chen, AN Bullock… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Mammalian development demands precision. Millions of molecules must be properly
located in temporal order, and their function regulated, to orchestrate important steps in cell …

Context-specific Polycomb mechanisms in development

JJ Kim, RE Kingston - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are crucial chromatin regulators that maintain repression of
lineage-inappropriate genes and are therefore required for stable cell fate. Recent advances …
C Ernst, N Eling, CP Martinez-Jimenez… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Male gametes are generated through a specialised differentiation pathway involving a
series of developmental transitions that are poorly characterised at the molecular level …

Novel techniques of sperm selection for improving IVF and ICSI outcomes

I Oseguera-López, S Ruiz-Díaz… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Almost 50% of the infertility cases are due to male factors. Assisted reproductive
technologies (ARTs) allow to overcome the incapacity of these patients' spermatozoa to …

Meiotic silencing in mammals

JMA Turner - Annual review of genetics, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Meiosis is essential for reproduction in sexually reproducing organisms. A key stage in
meiosis is the synapsis of maternal and paternal homologous chromosomes, accompanied …

Meiotic recombination: insights into its mechanisms and its role in human reproduction with a special focus on non-obstructive azoospermia

C **e, W Wang, C Tu, L Meng, G Lu… - Human reproduction …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Meiosis is an essential stage in the life cycle of sexually reproducing
species, underlying formation of haploid gametes and serving as the basis of genetic …

[HTML][HTML] High-throughput single-cell sequencing with linear amplification

Y Yin, Y Jiang, KWG Lam, JB Berletch, CM Disteche… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Conventional methods for single-cell genome sequencing are limited with respect to
uniformity and throughput. Here, we describe sci-L3, a single-cell sequencing method that …

Attenuated chromatin compartmentalization in meiosis and its maturation in sperm development

KG Alavattam, S Maezawa, A Sakashita… - Nature structural & …, 2019 - nature.com
Germ cells manifest a unique gene expression program and regain totipotency in the zygote.
Here, we perform Hi-C analysis to examine 3D chromatin organization in male germ cells …

Molecular regulation of spermatogonial stem cell renewal and differentiation

JA Mäkelä, RM Hobbs - Reproduction, 2019 - rep.bioscientifica.com
The intricate molecular and cellular interactions between spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs)
and their cognate niche form the basis for life-long sperm production. To maintain long-term …

[PDF][PDF] Dynamic reorganization of open chromatin underlies diverse transcriptomes during spermatogenesis

S Maezawa, M Yukawa, KG Alavattam… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
During spermatogenesis, germ cells undergo massive cellular reconstruction and dynamic
chromatin remodeling to facilitate highly diverse transcriptomes, which are required for the …