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NATURE
卷 447, 期 7143, 页码 425-432出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature05918
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- Medical Research Council [G0200227] Funding Source: Medline
- MRC [G0200227] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0200227] Funding Source: researchfish
During development, cells start in a pluripotent state, from which they can differentiate into many cell types, and progressively develop a narrower potential. Their gene-expression programmes become more defined, restricted and, potentially, 'locked in'. Pluripotent stem cells express genes that encode a set of core transcription factors, while genes that are required later in development are repressed by histone marks, which confer short-term, and therefore flexible, epigenetic silencing. By contrast, the methylation of DNA confers long-term epigenetic silencing of particular sequences - transposons, imprinted genes and pluripotency-associated genes - in somatic cells. Long-term silencing can be reprogrammed by demethylation of DNA, and this process might involve DNA repair. It is not known whether any of the epigenetic marks has a primary role in determining cell and lineage commitment during development.
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