Activation and function of the MAPKs and their substrates, the MAPK-activated protein kinases

M Cargnello, PP Roux - Microbiology and molecular biology …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
The mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) regulate diverse cellular programs by
relaying extracellular signals to intracellular responses. In mammals, there are more than a …

Molecular mechanisms and potential functions of histone demethylases

SM Kooistra, K Helin - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2012 - nature.com
Histone modifications are thought to regulate chromatin structure, transcription and other
nuclear processes. Histone methylation was originally believed to be an irreversible …

High-throughput discovery of novel developmental phenotypes

ME Dickinson, AM Flenniken, X Ji, L Teboul, MD Wong… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Approximately one-third of all mammalian genes are essential for life. Phenotypes resulting
from knockouts of these genes in mice have provided tremendous insight into gene function …

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals novel regulators of human embryonic stem cell differentiation to definitive endoderm

LF Chu, N Leng, J Zhang, Z Hou, D Mamott… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Background Human pluripotent stem cells offer the best available model to study the
underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms of human embryonic lineage specification …

Histone lysine demethylases as targets for anticancer therapy

JW Højfeldt, K Agger, K Helin - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2013 - nature.com
It has recently been demonstrated that the genes controlling the epigenetic programmes that
are required for maintaining chromatin structure and cell identity include genes that drive …

Regulation and function of the RSK family of protein kinases

Y Romeo, X Zhang, PP Roux - Biochemical Journal, 2012 - portlandpress.com
The RSK (90 kDa ribosomal S6 kinase) family comprises a group of highly related
serine/threonine kinases that regulate diverse cellular processes, including cell growth …

UTX, a histone H3-lysine 27 demethylase, acts as a critical switch to activate the cardiac developmental program

S Lee, JW Lee, SK Lee - Developmental cell, 2012 - cell.com
The removal of histone H3 lysine27 (H3K27) trimethylation mark is important for the robust
induction of many cell type-specific genes during differentiation. Here we show that UTX, a …

UTX regulates mesoderm differentiation of embryonic stem cells independent of H3K27 demethylase activity

C Wang, JE Lee, YW Cho, Y Xiao… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
To investigate the role of histone H3K27 demethylase UTX in embryonic stem (ES) cell
differentiation, we have generated UTX knockout (KO) and enzyme-dead knock-in male ES …

CARM1 and paraspeckles regulate pre-implantation mouse embryo development

A Hupalowska, A Jedrusik, M Zhu, MT Bedford… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Nuclear architecture has never been carefully examined during early mammalian
development at the stages leading to establishment of the embryonic and extra-embryonic …

Deletion of mouse Porcn blocks Wnt ligand secretion and reveals an ectodermal etiology of human focal dermal hypoplasia/Goltz syndrome

JJ Barrott, GM Cash, AP Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The Drosophila porcupine gene is required for secretion of wingless and other Wnt proteins,
and sporadic mutations in its unique human ortholog, PORCN, cause a pleiotropic X-linked …