Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

The H2A.Z and NuRD associated protein HMG20A controls early head and heart developmental transcription programs

  • Andreas Herchenröther,
  • Stefanie Gossen,
  • Tobias Friedrich,
  • Alexander Reim,
  • Nadine Daus,
  • Felix Diegmüller,
  • Jörg Leers,
  • Hakimeh Moghaddas Sani,
  • Sarah Gerstner,
  • Leah Schwarz,
  • Inga Stellmacher,
  • Laura Victoria Szymkowiak,
  • Andrea Nist,
  • Thorsten Stiewe,
  • Tilman Borggrefe,
  • Matthias Mann,
  • Joel P. Mackay,
  • Marek Bartkuhn,
  • Annette Borchers,
  • Jie Lan,
  • Sandra B. Hake

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36114-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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How the histone variant H2A.Z controls cell fate remains unclear. Here, the authors reveal that the H2A.Z interacting partner HMG20A plays a key role in regulating transcription during early head and heart development.