Sam Buckberry, Xiaodong Liu, Daniel Poppe, Jia Ping Tan, Guizhi Sun, Joseph Chen, Trung Viet Nguyen, Alex de Mendoza, Jahnvi Pflueger, Thomas Frazer, Dulce B Vargas-Landín, Jacob M Paynter, Nathan Smits, Ning Liu, John F Ouyang, Fernando J Rossello, Hun S Chy, Owen J L Rackham, Andrew L Laslett, James Breen, Geoffrey J Faulkner, Christian M Nefzger, Jose M Polo, Ryan Lister
Cells undergo a major epigenome reconfiguration when reprogrammed to human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPS cells). However, the epigenomes of hiPS cells and human embryonic stem (hES) cells differ significantly, which affects hiPS cell function1-8 . These differences include epigenetic memory and aberrations that emerge during reprogramming, for which the mechanisms remain unknown. Here we characterized the persistence and emergence of these epigenetic differences by performing genome-wide DNA methylation profiling throughout primed and naive reprogramming of human somatic cells to hiPS cells...
August 2023: Nature