Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

JMJD3 acts in tandem with KLF4 to facilitate reprogramming to pluripotency

  • Yinghua Huang,
  • Hui Zhang,
  • Lulu Wang,
  • Chuanqing Tang,
  • Xiaogan Qin,
  • Xinyu Wu,
  • Meifang Pan,
  • Yujia Tang,
  • Zhongzhou Yang,
  • Isaac A. Babarinde,
  • Runxia Lin,
  • Guanyu Ji,
  • Yiwei Lai,
  • Xueting Xu,
  • Jianbin Su,
  • Xue Wen,
  • Takashi Satoh,
  • Tanveer Ahmed,
  • Vikas Malik,
  • Carl Ward,
  • Giacomo Volpe,
  • Lin Guo,
  • Jinlong Chen,
  • Li Sun,
  • Yingying Li,
  • Xiaofen Huang,
  • Xichen Bao,
  • Fei Gao,
  • Baohua Liu,
  • Hui Zheng,
  • Ralf Jauch,
  • Liangxue Lai,
  • Guangjin Pan,
  • Jiekai Chen,
  • Giuseppe Testa,
  • Shizuo Akira,
  • Jifan Hu,
  • Duanqing Pei,
  • Andrew P. Hutchins,
  • Miguel A. Esteban,
  • Baoming Qin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18900-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Previous work suggested that histone demethylase JMJD3 is detrimental to somatic cell reprogramming. Here, the authors show that while JMJD3 has a context-independent detrimental effect on early stages of reprogramming, during late stages it activates epithelial and pluripotency genes together with Klf4.