Nature Communications (May 2021)

MPP8 is essential for sustaining self-renewal of ground-state pluripotent stem cells

  • Iris Müller,
  • Ann Sophie Moroni,
  • Daria Shlyueva,
  • Sudeep Sahadevan,
  • Erwin M. Schoof,
  • Aliaksandra Radzisheuskaya,
  • Jonas W. Højfeldt,
  • Tülin Tatar,
  • Richard P. Koche,
  • Chang Huang,
  • Kristian Helin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23308-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Naïve pluripotency is characterized by distinctly open chromatin and repressed endogenous retroviruses. Here the authors show that MPP8 and its association with the core HUSH complex is essential for naïve pluripotent cells; also that repression of LINE1 elements by MPP8 does not require chromatin binding, nor H3K9me3.