Methylome inheritance and enhancer dememorization reset an epigenetic gate safeguarding embryonic programs
Xiaotong Wu, Hongmei Zhang, Bingjie Zhang, Yu Zhang, Qiuyan Wang, Weimin Shen, Xi Wu, Lijia Li, Weikun Xia, Ryohei Nakamura, Bofeng Liu, Feng Liu, Hiroyuki Takeda, Anming Meng, Wei Xie
The paper shows that global DNA methylation inheritance and enhancer dememorization in zebrafish embryos protect embryonic gene programs by preventing ectopic gene activation.
Science Advances · Dec 22, 2021Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology