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TRIM28 repression of retrotransposon-based enhancers is necessary to preserve transcriptional dynamics in embryonic stem cells.
(2013-03)
TRIM28 is critical for the silencing of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) in embryonic stem (ES) cells. Here, we reveal that an essential impact of this process is the protection of cellular gene expression in early embryos ...
Transposable Elements and Their KRAB-ZFP Controllers Regulate Gene Expression in Adult Tissues.
(2016-03-21)
KRAB-containing zinc finger proteins (KRAB-ZFPs) are early embryonic controllers of transposable elements (TEs), which they repress with their cofactor KAP1 through histone and DNA methylation, a process thought to result ...
De novo DNA methylation of endogenous retroviruses is shaped by KRAB-ZFPs/KAP1 and ESET.
(2013-02-01)
Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) undergo de novo DNA methylation during the first few days of mammalian embryogenesis, although the factors that control the targeting of this process are largely unknown. We asked whether ...
Embryonic stem cell potency fluctuates with endogenous retrovirus activity.
(2012-06-13)
Embryonic stem (ES) cells are derived from blastocyst-stage embryos and are thought to be functionally equivalent to the inner cell mass, which lacks the ability to produce all extraembryonic tissues. Here we identify a ...