Paper Summaries

Honeybees Unit

Yan et al. (2011). Diet and cell size both affect queen-worker differentiation through DNA methylation in honeybees

Epigenetics & Chromatin

Harikumar & Meshorer (2015). Chromatin remodelling and bivalent histone modifications in embryonic stem cells.

Becker, J., Nicetto, D., Zaret, K. (2016). H3K9me3-dependent heterochromatin: barrier to cell fate changes.

Daniel, B., Nagy, G., Nagy L. (2014). The intruiging complexities of mammalian gene regulation: how to link enhancers to regulated genes. Are we there yet?

Plank & DeanĀ (2014). Enhancer function: mechanistic and genome-wide insights.

Smith & Shilatifard (2014). Enhancer biology and enhanceropathies.

Petruk et al. (2012). TrxG and PcG proteins but not methylated histones remain associated with DNA throughout replication.

Genomic Imprinting

Chiesa et al. (2012). The KCNQ1OT1 imprinting control region and non-coding RNA: new properties derived from the study of Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome and Silver-Russell syndrome cases.

Bartolomei & Ferguson-Smith (2011). Mammalian genomic imprinting.

Kanduri (2015). Long non-coding RNAS: lessons from genomic imprinting.

X Chromosome Inactivation

Ahn, J. (2008). X chromosome: X inactivation. Nature Education.

Pasque and Plath (2015). X chromosome reactivation in reprogramming and in development.

Lee (2011). Gracefully ageing at 50, X-chromosome inactivation becomes a paradigm for RNA and chromatin control.

CRISPR and Stem Cells

Waddington et al. (2016). A broad overview and review of CRISPR-Cas technology and stem cells.