Maternal SETDB1 enables development beyond cleavage stages by extinguishing the MERVL-driven 2-cell totipotency transcriptional program in the mouse embryo
Tie-Bo Zeng, Zhen Fang Fu, Mary F. Majewski…·Piroska E. Szabó
The paper shows that maternal SETDB1 is essential for silencing 2-cell totipotency genes in mouse embryos, allowing development beyond the 8-cell stage.