X-inactivation and X-reactivation: epigenetic hallmarks of mammalian reproduction and pluripotent stem cells

Transcription precedes loss of Xist coating and depletion of H3K27me3 during X-chromosome reprogramming in the mouse inner cell mass

(2011) L. H. Williams et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Disruption of a conserved region of Xist exon 1 impairs Xist RNA localisation and X-linked gene silencing during random and imprinted X chromosome inactivation

(2011) C. E. Senner et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Lineage Conversion of Murine Extraembryonic Trophoblast Stem Cells to Pluripotent Stem Cells

(2011) P. Kuckenberg et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Eutherian mammals use diverse strategies to initiate X-chromosome inactivation during development

(2011) Ikuhiro Okamoto et al.   NATURE

Progress in understanding reprogramming to the induced pluripotent state

(2011) Kathrin Plath et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Evolution from XIST-Independent to XIST-Controlled X-Chromosome Inactivation: Epigenetic Modifications in Distantly Related Mammals

(2011) Julie Chaumeil et al.   PLoS One

Reprogramming of Trophoblast Stem Cells into Pluripotent Stem Cells by Oct4

(2011) Tong Wu et al.   STEM CELLS

RNF12 Activates Xist and Is Essential for X Chromosome Inactivation

(2011) Tahsin Stefan Barakat et al.   PLoS Genetics

Derivation of Pre-X Inactivation Human Embryonic Stem Cells under Physiological Oxygen Concentrations

(2010) Christopher J. Lengner et al.   CELL

LINE-1 Activity in Facultative Heterochromatin Formation during X Chromosome Inactivation

(2010) Jennifer C. Chow et al.   CELL

The Long Noncoding RNA, Jpx, Is a Molecular Switch for X Chromosome Inactivation

(2010) Di Tian et al.   CELL

Female Human iPSCs Retain an Inactive X Chromosome

(2010) Jason Tchieu et al.   Cell Stem Cell

A Murine ESC-like State Facilitates Transgenesis and Homologous Recombination in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

(2010) Christa Buecker et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Histone H3 trimethylation at lysine 9 marks the inactive metaphase X chromosome in the marsupial Monodelphis domestica

(2010) Irina S. Zakharova et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Choice of random rather than imprinted X inactivation in female embryonic stem cell-derived extra-embryonic cells

(2010) K. Murakami et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Sex chromosome inactivation in the male

(2010) Wei Yan et al.   Epigenetics

DNA double strand break repair, chromosome synapsis and transcriptional silencing in meiosis

(2010) Akiko Inagaki et al.   Epigenetics

X-changing information on X inactivation

(2010) Tahsin Stefan Barakat et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Induced pluripotency: history, mechanisms, and applications

(2010) M. Stadtfeld et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Ftx is a non-coding RNA which affects Xist expression and chromatin structure within the X-inactivation center region

(2010) Corinne Chureau et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Two-Step Imprinted X Inactivation: Repeat versus Genic Silencing in the Mouse

(2010) S. H. Namekawa et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Maternal Rnf12/RLIM is required for imprinted X-chromosome inactivation in mice

(2010) JongDae Shin et al.   NATURE

Aberrant silencing of imprinted genes on chromosome 12qF1 in mouse induced pluripotent stem cells

(2010) Matthias Stadtfeld et al.   NATURE

Molecular coupling of Tsix regulation and pluripotency

(2010) Pablo Navarro et al.   NATURE

Repressive and active histone methylation mark distinct promoters in human and mouse spermatozoa

(2010) Urszula Brykczynska et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Epigenetic modifications on X chromosomes in marsupial and monotreme mammals and implications for evolution of dosage compensation

(2010) Willem Rens et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phosphorylation stabilizes Nanog by promoting its interaction with Pin1

(2010) M. Moretto-Zita et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Human embryonic stem cells with biological and epigenetic characteristics similar to those of mouse ESCs

(2010) J. Hanna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impeding Xist Expression from the Active X Chromosome Improves Mouse Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer

(2010) K. Inoue et al.   SCIENCE

Nuclear Organization and Dosage Compensation

(2010) J. C. Chow et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

2-D Structure of the A Region of Xist RNA and Its Implication for PRC2 Association

(2010) Sylvain Maenner et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

X Chromosome Inactivation Is Initiated in Human Preimplantation Embryos

(2009) Ilse M. van den Berg et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

RNF12 Is an X-Encoded Dose-Dependent Activator of X Chromosome Inactivation

(2009) Iris Jonkers et al.   CELL

Nanog Is the Gateway to the Pluripotent Ground State

(2009) Jose Silva et al.   CELL

Resetting the Epigenome beyond Pluripotency in the Germline

(2009) Katsuhiko Hayashi et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Naive and Primed Pluripotent States

(2009) Jennifer Nichols et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Lessons from comparative analysis of X-chromosome inactivation in mammals

(2009) Ikuhiro Okamoto et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Key Features of the X Inactivation Process Are Conserved between Marsupials and Eutherians

(2009) Shantha K. Mahadevaiah et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Klf4 reverts developmentally programmed restriction of ground state pluripotency

(2009) G. Guo et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Lessons from X-chromosome inactivation: long ncRNA as guides and tethers to the epigenome

(2009) J. T. Lee   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Endonuclease-sensitive regions of human spermatozoal chromatin are highly enriched in promoter and CTCF binding sequences

(2009) A. Arpanahi et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The pluripotency factor Oct4 interacts with Ctcf and also controls X-chromosome pairing and counting

(2009) Mary E. Donohoe et al.   NATURE

Epigenetic reversion of post-implantation epiblast to pluripotent embryonic stem cells

(2009) Siqin Bao et al.   NATURE

Direct cell reprogramming is a stochastic process amenable to acceleration

(2009) Jacob Hanna et al.   NATURE

Many X-linked microRNAs escape meiotic sex chromosome inactivation

(2009) Rui Song et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Dynamic changes in paternal X-chromosome activity during imprinted X-chromosome inactivation in mice

(2009) C. Patrat et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

XY and ZW: Is Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation the Rule in Evolution?

(2009) Satoshi H. Namekawa et al.   PLoS Genetics

X Chromosome Dosage Compensation: How Mammals Keep the Balance

(2008) Bernhard Payer et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

An Extended Transcriptional Network for Pluripotency of Embryonic Stem Cells

(2008) Jonghwan Kim et al.   CELL

Defining Molecular Cornerstones during Fibroblast to iPS Cell Reprogramming in Mouse

(2008) Matthias Stadtfeld et al.   Cell Stem Cell

A proximal conserved repeat in the Xist gene is essential as a genomic element for X-inactivation in mouse

(2008) Y. Hoki et al.   DEVELOPMENT

De novoDNA methylation independent establishment of maternal imprint on X chromosome in mouse oocytes

(2008) Hatsune Chiba et al.   GENESIS

X-inactivation reveals epigenetic anomalies in most hESC but identifies sublines that initiate as expected

(2008) Lisa L. Hall et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY

Chromatin dynamics during epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line

(2008) Petra Hajkova et al.   NATURE

The mouse X chromosome is enriched for multicopy testis genes showing postmeiotic expression

(2008) Jacob L Mueller et al.   NATURE GENETICS

X Chromosome Activity in Mouse XX Primordial Germ Cells

(2008) Susana M. Chuva de Sousa Lopes et al.   PLoS Genetics

X-chromosome inactivation and epigenetic fluidity in human embryonic stem cells

(2008) S. S. Silva et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

X-inactivation in female human embryonic stem cells is in a nonrandom pattern and prone to epigenetic alterations

(2008) Y. Shen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular Coupling of Xist Regulation and Pluripotency

(2008) P. Navarro et al.   SCIENCE

Polycomb Proteins Targeted by a Short Repeat RNA to the Mouse X Chromosome

(2008) J. Zhao et al.   SCIENCE

Heterogeneity in imprinted methylation patterns of pluripotent embryonic germ cells derived from pre-migratory mouse germ cells

(2007) Tanya C. Shovlin et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY