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Roles of OCT4 in pathways of embryonic development and cancer progression

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MECHANISMS OF AGEING AND DEVELOPMENT
Volume 189, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2020.111286

Keywords

Zygote; Pluripotency; Totipotency; Pluripotency inducing factors; OCT4; Embryonic development; Epigenetic modifications; Epigenome; Breast cancer; Prostate cancer; Cancers

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  1. Department of Bio-Technology (Government of India) [BT/PR21318/MED/12/742/2016]
  2. Department of Science and Technology-SERB (Government of India) [EMR/2016/007034]

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Somatic cells may be reprogrammed to pluripotent state by ectopic expression of certain transcription factors; namely, OCT4, SOX2, KLF4 and c-MYC. However, the molecular and cellular mechanisms are not adequately understood, especially for human embryonic development. Studies during the last five years implicated importance of OCT4 in human zygotic genome activation (ZGA), patterns of OCT4 protein folding and role of specialized sequences in binding to DNA for modulation of gene expression during development. Epigenetic modulation of OCT4 gene and post translational modifications of OCT4 protein activity in the context of multiple cancers are important issues. A consensus is emerging that chromatin organization and epigenetic landscape play crucial roles for the interactions of transcription factors, including OCT4 with the promoters and/or regulatory sequences of genes associated with human embryonic development (ZGA through lineage specification) and that when the epigenome niche is deregulated OCT4 helps in cancer progression, and how OCT4 silencing in somatic cells of adult organisms may impact ageing.

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