Epigenetic Reprogramming in Mice and Humans: From Fertilization to Primordial Germ Cell Development

A Singh, DA Rappolee, DM Ruden - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this review, advances in the understanding of epigenetic reprogramming from fertilization
to the development of primordial germline cells in a mouse and human embryo are …

Temporal and regional changes in DNA methylation in the embryonic, extraembryonic and germ cell lineages during mouse embryo development

M Monk, M Boubelik, S Lehnert - Development, 1987 - journals.biologists.com
This paper shows stage-and tissue-specific global demethylation and remethylation
occurring during embryonic development. The egg genome is strikingly undermethylated …

Germline-derived DNA methylation and early embryo epigenetic reprogramming: the selected survival of imprints

D Monk - The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology, 2015 - Elsevier
DNA methylation is an essential epigenetic mechanism involved in many essential cellular
processes. During development epigenetic reprograming takes place during gametogenesis …

DNA methylomes of bovine gametes and in vivo produced preimplantation embryos

Z Jiang, J Lin, H Dong, X Zheng, SL Marjani… - Biology of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is an important epigenetic modification that undergoes dynamic changes
in mammalian embryogenesis, during which both parental genomes are reprogrammed …

Active DNA demethylation: many roads lead to Rome

SC Wu, Y Zhang - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2010 - nature.com
DNA methylation is one of the best-characterized epigenetic modifications and has been
implicated in numerous biological processes, including transposable element silencing …

DNA methylation dynamics in cellular commitment and differentiation

M Suelves, E Carrió, Y Núñez-Álvarez… - Briefings in functional …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is an essential epigenetic modification for mammalian development and is
crucial for the establishment and maintenance of cellular identity. Traditionally, DNA …

Global profiling of DNA methylation erasure in mouse primordial germ cells

S Guibert, T Forné, M Weber - Genome research, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
Epigenetic reprogramming, characterized by loss of cytosine methylation and histone
modifications, occurs during mammalian development in primordial germ cells (PGCs), yet …

Temporal uncoupling of the DNA methylome and transcriptional repression during embryogenesis

O Bogdanović, SW Long, SJ van Heeringen… - Genome …, 2011 - genome.cshlp.org
DNA methylation is a tightly regulated epigenetic mark associated with transcriptional
repression. Next-generation sequencing of purified methylated DNA obtained from early …

Retention of paternal DNA methylome in the developing zebrafish germline

K Skvortsova, K Tarbashevich, M Stehling… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Two waves of DNA methylation reprogramming occur during mammalian embryogenesis;
during preimplantation development and during primordial germ cell (PGC) formation …

Mechanistic aspects of genome-wide demethylation in the preimplantation mouse embryo.

T Kafri, X Gao, A Razin - Proceedings of the National …, 1993 - National Acad Sciences
Gene-specific methylation patterns in mammals play a role in a variety of biological
processes in the embryo and adult tissues. These patterns are established during embryo …