Mechanisms of nuclear reprogramming by eggs and oocytes: a deterministic process?

Reprogramming Factor Expression Initiates Widespread Targeted Chromatin Remodeling

(2011) Richard P. Koche et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Nuclear actin polymerization is required for transcriptional reprogramming of Oct4 by oocytes

(2011) K. Miyamoto et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Proteomic Analysis of Mouse Oocytes Reveals 28 Candidate Factors of the “Reprogrammome”

(2011) Martin J. Pfeiffer et al.   JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH

Dynamic regulation of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in mouse ES cells and during differentiation

(2011) Gabriella Ficz et al.   NATURE

Promyelocytic Leukemia Protein in Retinoic Acid-Induced Chromatin Remodeling of Oct4 Gene Promoter

(2011) Ya-Shan Chuang et al.   STEM CELLS

5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in the mammalian zygote is linked with epigenetic reprogramming

(2011) Mark Wossidlo et al.   Nature Communications

Pluripotency and Cellular Reprogramming: Facts, Hypotheses, Unresolved Issues

(2010) Jacob H. Hanna et al.   CELL

Dynamic link of DNA demethylation, DNA strand breaks and repair in mouse zygotes

(2010) Mark Wossidlo et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Epigenetic marks in somatic chromatin are remodelled to resemble pluripotent nuclei by amphibian oocyte extracts

(2010) Yuhong Bian et al.   Epigenetics

Induced pluripotency: history, mechanisms, and applications

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

Mammalian nuclear transplantation to Germinal Vesicle stage Xenopus oocytes – A method for quantitative transcriptional reprogramming

(2010) R.P. Halley-Stott et al.   METHODS

Role of Tet proteins in 5mC to 5hmC conversion, ES-cell self-renewal and inner cell mass specification

(2010) Shinsuke Ito et al.   NATURE

Nuclear reprogramming to a pluripotent state by three approaches

(2010) Shinya Yamanaka et al.   NATURE

Dynamic single-cell imaging of direct reprogramming reveals an early specifying event

(2010) Zachary D Smith et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Tomio Tada 1934–2010

(2010) Masaru Taniguchi   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Characterization of somatic cell nuclear reprogramming by oocytes in which a linker histone is required for pluripotency gene reactivation

(2010) J. Jullien 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

Histone H3 lysine 4 methylation is associated with the transcriptional reprogramming efficiency of somatic nuclei by oocytes

(2010) Kazutaka Murata et al.   Epigenetics & Chromatin

Role of the Murine Reprogramming Factors in the Induction of Pluripotency

(2009) Rupa Sridharan et al.   CELL

Reprogramming after Chromosome Transfer into Mouse Blastomeres

(2009) Dieter Egli et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Xenopus oocytes reactivate muscle gene transcription in transplanted somatic nuclei independently of myogenic factors

(2009) A. Biddle et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Shifting Players and Paradigms in Cell-Specific Transcription

(2009) Joseph A. D'Alessio et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Elite and stochastic models for induced pluripotent stem cell generation

(2009) Shinya Yamanaka   NATURE

Direct cell reprogramming is a stochastic process amenable to acceleration

(2009) Jacob Hanna et al.   NATURE

Reprogramming towards pluripotency requires AID-dependent DNA demethylation

(2009) Nidhi Bhutani et al.   NATURE

Direct Reprogramming of Terminally Differentiated Mature B Lymphocytes to Pluripotency

(2008) Jacob Hanna et al.   CELL

Defining Molecular Cornerstones during Fibroblast to iPS Cell Reprogramming in Mouse

(2008) Matthias Stadtfeld et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Global Transcription in Pluripotent Embryonic Stem Cells

(2008) Sol Efroni et al.   Cell Stem Cell

De novo DNA methylation promoted by G9a prevents reprogramming of embryonically silenced genes

(2008) Silvina Epsztejn-Litman et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Heterokaryon-Based Reprogramming of Human B Lymphocytes for Pluripotency Requires Oct4 but Not Sox2

(2008) Carlos F. Pereira et al.   PLoS Genetics