Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

JMJD3 and UTX determine fidelity and lineage specification of human neural progenitor cells

  • Yongli Shan,
  • Yanqi Zhang,
  • Yuan Zhao,
  • Tianyu Wang,
  • Jingyuan Zhang,
  • Jiao Yao,
  • Ning Ma,
  • Zechuan Liang,
  • Wenhao Huang,
  • Ke Huang,
  • Tian Zhang,
  • Zhenghui Su,
  • Qianyu Chen,
  • Yanling Zhu,
  • Chuman Wu,
  • Tiancheng Zhou,
  • Wei Sun,
  • Yanxing Wei,
  • Cong Zhang,
  • Chenxu Li,
  • Shuquan Su,
  • Baojian Liao,
  • Mei Zhong,
  • Xiaofen Zhong,
  • Jinfu Nie,
  • Duanqing Pei,
  • Guangjin Pan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14028-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Neurogenesis is an ordered transition from pluriptotent cells to neural precursor cells (NPCs) to neurons. Here the authors show that loss of the lysine demethylases JMJD3 and UTX leads reduced DNA accessibility at neurogenesis loci in human NPCs, and that the chromatin remodeller BAF can rescue differentiation defects.