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STEM CELL REPORTS
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 264-278Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2017.05.023
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- Ligue National (Francaise) Contre le Cancer
- IARC Postdoctoral Fellowship and Marie Curie Actions-People-COFUND
- Agence Nationale de Recherches sur le SIDA et les Hepatites Virales (ANRS) [AO 2012-2 CSS4, 12328]
- La Ligue Contre Le Cancer Comite d'Ille et Vilaine et des Cotes d'Armor
- IARC's Junior Investigator Award
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Understanding the processes that govern liver progenitor cell differentiation has important implications for the design of strategies targeting chronic liver diseases, whereby regeneration of liver tissue is critical. Although DNA methylation (5mC) and hydroxymethylation (5hmC) are highly dynamic during early embryonic development, less is known about their roles at later stages of differentiation. Using an in vitro model of hepatocyte differentiation, we show here that 5hmC precedes the expression of promoter 1 (P1)-dependent isoforms of HNF4A, a master transcription factor of hepatocyte identity. 5hmC and HNF4A expression from P1 are dependent on ten-eleven translocation (TET) dioxygenases. In turn, the liver pioneer factor FOXA2 is necessary for TET1 binding to the P1 locus. Both FOXA2 and TETs are required for the 5hmC-related switch in HNF4A expression. The epigenetic event identified here may be a key step for the establishment of the hepatocyte program by HNF4A.
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