Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

LSD1-mediated enhancer silencing attenuates retinoic acid signalling during pancreatic endocrine cell development

  • Nicholas K. Vinckier,
  • Nisha A. Patel,
  • Ryan J. Geusz,
  • Allen Wang,
  • Jinzhao Wang,
  • Ileana Matta,
  • Austin R. Harrington,
  • Matthew Wortham,
  • Nichole Wetton,
  • Jianxun Wang,
  • Ulupi S. Jhala,
  • Michael G. Rosenfeld,
  • Christopher W. Benner,
  • Hung-Ping Shih,
  • Maike Sander

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16017-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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How epigenetic regulation affects pancreatic development is unclear. Here, the authors show that the histone demethylase LSD1 regulates the epigenetic state of developmental enhancers during pancreatic specification and controls how these enhancers respond to extracellular signals, namely retinoic acid.