TY  - JOUR
TI  - Epigenetic regulation and transcriptional memory in development; selection facilitating prudence
AU  - Verma, Akanksha
AU  - Maini, Jayant
AU  - Jain, Shruti
AU  - Ghasemi, Mohsen
AU  - Kohli, Surbhi
AU  - Brahmachari, Vani
T2  - The International Journal of Developmental Biology
AB  - The epigenetic mechanisms regulating developmental gene expression are examples of a strategy to generate unique expression profiles with global regulators controlling several genes. In a simplified view, a common set of tools, that include DNA motif recognizing proteins (recruiters), binding/interacting surfaces (ARPs- actin related proteins), epigenetic writers (histone methyltransferases, acetylases), readers (chromatin remodeling proteins, PRC1 members) and erasers (demethylases, deacetylases) form complexes which not only regulate transcription, but also retain the transcriptional memory through mitosis. There are two arms of epigenetic regulation: covalent modification of DNA and the post-translational modification of histones. In this review, we discuss both of these aspects briefly to illustrate functional diversity. We discuss our efforts at utilization of the genome sequence data for de novo identification of new players and their functional validation in this remarkable process.
PY  - 2020
DO  - 10.1387/ijdb.190285vb
VL  - 64
IS  - 1-2-3
SP  - 181
EP  - 201
J2  - Int. J. Dev. Biol.
LA  - en
SN  - 0214-6282
SN  - 1696-3547
UR  - https://ijdb.ehu.eus/article/190285vb
Y2  - 2024/05/03/10:19:32
ER  -