Enhancer-associated H3K4 methylation safeguards in vitro germline competence

T Bleckwehl, G Crispatzu, K Schaaf, P Respuela… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Germline specification in mammals occurs through an inductive process whereby competent
cells in the post-implantation epiblast differentiate into primordial germ cells (PGC). The …

[HTML][HTML] Developmental phenomics suggests that H3K4 monomethylation confers multi-level phenotypic robustness

L Gandara, A Tsai, M Ekelöf, R Galupa, EPB Noon… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
How histone modifications affect animal development remains difficult to ascertain. Despite
the prevalence of histone 3 lysine 4 monomethylation (H3K4me1) on enhancers …

Transcriptional factors mediated reprogramming to pluripotency

N Fatima, M Saif Ur Rahman, M Qasim… - Current stem cell …, 2024 - benthamdirect.com
A unique kind of pluripotent cell, ie, Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), now being
targeted for iPSC synthesis, are produced by reprogramming animal and human …

H3K4 trimethylation is required for postnatal pancreatic endocrine cell functional maturation

SA Campbell, J Bégin, CL McDonald, B Vanderkruk… - Diabetes, 2021 - Am Diabetes Assoc
During pancreas development, endocrine progenitors differentiate into the islet cell
subtypes, which undergo further functional maturation in postnatal islet development. In islet …

MLL3/MLL4 histone methyltranferase activity dependent chromatin organization at enhancers during embryonic stem cell differentiation

N Kubo, R Hu, Z Ye, B Ren - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
SUMMARY MLL3 (KMT2C) and MLL4 (KMT2D), the major mono-methyltransferases of
histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4), are required for cellular differentiation and embryonic …

Developmental phenomics suggests that H3K4 monomethylation catalyzed by Trr functions as a phenotypic capacitor

L Gandara, A Tsai, M Ekelöf, R Galupa, EPB Noon… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
How epigenetic modulators of gene regulation affect the development and evolution of
animals has been difficult to ascertain. Despite the widespread presence of histone 3 lysine …

The relevance of the epigenetic features of enhancers for germline competence

T Bleckwehl - 2021 - kups.ub.uni-koeln.de
Primordial germ cells (PGC) are the precursor of the gametes, which safeguard the
transmission of genetic information to the next generation. In mammals, germline …