Transcription factors and 3D genome conformation in cell-fate decisions

R Stadhouders, GJ Filion, T Graf - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
How cells adopt different identities has long fascinated biologists. Signal transduction in
response to environmental cues results in the activation of transcription factors that …

Metabolic reprogramming and epigenetic modifications on the path to cancer

L Sun, H Zhang, P Gao - Protein & cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Metabolic rewiring and epigenetic remodeling, which are closely linked and reciprocally
regulate each other, are among the well-known cancer hallmarks. Recent evidence …

[HTML][HTML] Symmetric inheritance of parental histones governs epigenome maintenance and embryonic stem cell identity

A Wenger, A Biran, N Alcaraz, A Redó-Riveiro… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Modified parental histones are segregated symmetrically to daughter DNA strands during
replication and can be inherited through mitosis. How this may sustain the epigenome and …

[HTML][HTML] Recycling of modified H2A-H2B provides short-term memory of chromatin states

V Flury, N Reverón-Gómez, N Alcaraz… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Chromatin landscapes are disrupted during DNA replication and must be restored faithfully
to maintain genome regulation and cell identity. The histone H3-H4 modification landscape …

Chromatin replication and epigenetic cell memory

KR Stewart-Morgan, N Petryk, A Groth - Nature cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
Propagation of the chromatin landscape across cell divisions is central to epigenetic cell
memory. Mechanistic analysis of the interplay between DNA replication, the cell cycle, and …

Epigenetic regulation of melanogenesis

S Zhou, H Zeng, J Huang, L Lei, X Tong, S Li… - Ageing research …, 2021 - Elsevier
Melanogenesis is a complex process in which melanin is synthesized in melanocytes and
transported to keratinocytes, which involves multiple genes and signaling pathways …

Genetic and epigenetic coordination of cortical interneuron development

KC Allaway, MI Gabitto, O Wapinski, G Saldi, CY Wang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
One of the hallmarks of the cerebral cortex is the extreme diversity of interneurons,–. The two
largest subtypes of cortical interneurons, parvalbumin-and somatostatin-positive cells, are …

[HTML][HTML] Paternal contributions to offspring health: role of sperm small RNAs in intergenerational transmission of epigenetic information

U Sharma - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The most fundamental process for the perpetuation of a species is the transfer of information
from parent to offspring. Although genomic DNA contributes to the majority of the …

[HTML][HTML] Genomes of multicellular algal sisters to land plants illuminate signaling network evolution

X Feng, J Zheng, I Irisarri, H Yu, B Zheng, Z Ali… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Zygnematophyceae are the algal sisters of land plants. Here we sequenced four genomes of
filamentous Zygnematophyceae, including chromosome-scale assemblies for three strains …

[HTML][HTML] Sleep increases chromosome dynamics to enable reduction of accumulating DNA damage in single neurons

D Zada, I Bronshtein, T Lerer-Goldshtein… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Sleep is essential to all animals with a nervous system. Nevertheless, the core cellular
function of sleep is unknown, and there is no conserved molecular marker to define sleep …