Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

E2F6 initiates stable epigenetic silencing of germline genes during embryonic development

  • Thomas Dahlet,
  • Matthias Truss,
  • Ute Frede,
  • Hala Al Adhami,
  • Anaïs F. Bardet,
  • Michael Dumas,
  • Judith Vallet,
  • Johana Chicher,
  • Philippe Hammann,
  • Sarah Kottnik,
  • Peter Hansen,
  • Uschi Luz,
  • Gonzalo Alvarez,
  • Ghislain Auclair,
  • Jochen Hecht,
  • Peter N. Robinson,
  • Christian Hagemeier,
  • Michael Weber

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23596-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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DNA methylation targets CpG island promoters of germline genes to repress their expression in mouse somatic cells. Here the authors show that a transcription factor E2F6 is required to target CpG island DNA methylation and epigenetic silencing to germline genes during early mouse development.