Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

IRF2 is a master regulator of human keratinocyte stem cell fate

  • Nicolas Mercado,
  • Gabi Schutzius,
  • Christian Kolter,
  • David Estoppey,
  • Sebastian Bergling,
  • Guglielmo Roma,
  • Caroline Gubser Keller,
  • Florian Nigsch,
  • Adrian Salathe,
  • Remi Terranova,
  • John Reece-Hoyes,
  • John Alford,
  • Carsten Russ,
  • Judith Knehr,
  • Dominic Hoepfner,
  • Alexandra Aebi,
  • Heinz Ruffner,
  • Tanner C. Beck,
  • Sajjeev Jagannathan,
  • Calla M. Olson,
  • Hadley E. Sheppard,
  • Selma Z. Elsarrag,
  • Tewis Bouwmeester,
  • Mathias Frederiksen,
  • Felix Lohmann,
  • Charles Y. Lin,
  • Susan Kirkland

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12559-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Epidermal homeostasis requires long term stem cell function. Here, the authors apply transcriptional circuitry analysis based on integrated epigenomic profiling of primary human keratinocytes with high and low stem cell function to identify IRF2 as a negative regulator of stemness.