Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

MyoD is a 3D genome structure organizer for muscle cell identity

  • Ruiting Wang,
  • Fengling Chen,
  • Qian Chen,
  • Xin Wan,
  • Minglei Shi,
  • Antony K. Chen,
  • Zhao Ma,
  • Guohong Li,
  • Min Wang,
  • Yachen Ying,
  • Qinyao Liu,
  • Hu Li,
  • Xu Zhang,
  • Jinbiao Ma,
  • Jiayun Zhong,
  • Meihong Chen,
  • Michael Q. Zhang,
  • Yong Zhang,
  • Yang Chen,
  • Dahai Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27865-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Pioneer transcription factors (TFs) have been proposed to act as protein anchors to orchestrate cell type-specific 3D genome architecture. MyoD is a pioneer TF for myogenic lineage specification. Here the authors provide further support for the role of MyoD in 3D genome architecture in muscle stem cells by comparing MyoD knockout and wild-type mice.