A systemic cell cycle block impacts stage-specific histone modification profiles during Xenopus embryogenesis.

Forming an embryo from a zygote poses an apparent conflict for epigenetic regulation. On the one hand, the de novo induction of cell fate identities requires the establishment and subsequent maintenance of epigenetic information to harness developmental gene expression. On the other hand, the embryo...

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Main Authors: Daniil Pokrovsky, Ignasi Forné, Tobias Straub, Axel Imhof, Ralph A W Rupp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-09-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001377