Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

DOT1L regulates chamber-specific transcriptional networks during cardiogenesis and mediates postnatal cell cycle withdrawal

  • Paola Cattaneo,
  • Michael G. B. Hayes,
  • Nina Baumgarten,
  • Dennis Hecker,
  • Sofia Peruzzo,
  • Galip S. Aslan,
  • Paolo Kunderfranco,
  • Veronica Larcher,
  • Lunfeng Zhang,
  • Riccardo Contu,
  • Gregory Fonseca,
  • Simone Spinozzi,
  • Ju Chen,
  • Gianluigi Condorelli,
  • Stefanie Dimmeler,
  • Marcel H. Schulz,
  • Sven Heinz,
  • Nuno Guimarães-Camboa,
  • Sylvia M. Evans

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35070-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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How and whether histone modifications regulate distinct gene networks remains insufficiently understood. Here Cattaneo et al show that DOT1L catalyzed H3K79me2 regulates fetal chamber-specific gene expression and neonatal cardiomyocyte cell cycle withdrawal to coordinate heart development.