Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Acute deletion of TET enzymes results in aneuploidy in mouse embryonic stem cells through decreased expression of Khdc3

  • Romain O. Georges,
  • Hugo Sepulveda,
  • J. Carlos Angel,
  • Eric Johnson,
  • Susan Palomino,
  • Roberta B. Nowak,
  • Arshad Desai,
  • Isaac F. López-Moyado,
  • Anjana Rao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33742-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Inducible disruption of TET dioxygenases in mouse embryonic stem cells results in chromosome mis-segregation and aneuploidies, due to Khdc3 downregulation suggesting a role for TET enzymes and DNA methylation patterns in maintaining genome stability.