Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

PRC2 specifies ectoderm lineages and maintains pluripotency in primed but not naïve ESCs

  • Yongli Shan,
  • Zechuan Liang,
  • Qi Xing,
  • Tian Zhang,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Shulan Tian,
  • Wenhao Huang,
  • Yanqi Zhang,
  • Jiao Yao,
  • Yanling Zhu,
  • Ke Huang,
  • Yujian Liu,
  • Xiaoshan Wang,
  • Qianyu Chen,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Bizhi Shang,
  • Shengbiao Li,
  • Xi Shi,
  • Baojian Liao,
  • Cong Zhang,
  • Keyu Lai,
  • Xiaofen Zhong,
  • Xiaodong Shu,
  • Jinyong Wang,
  • Hongjie Yao,
  • Jiekai Chen,
  • Duanqing Pei,
  • Guangjin Pan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00668-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) plays an essential role in development by modifying chromatin but what this means at a cellular level is unclear. Here, the authors show that ablation of PRC2 genes in human embryonic stem cells and in mice results in changes in pluripotency and the primed state of cells.