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ArticleNature2013

The pluripotent genome in three dimensions is shaped around pluripotency factors.

Elzo de Wit, Britta A M Bouwman, Yun Zhu, Petra Klous, Erik Splinter, Marjon J A M Verstegen, Peter H L Krijger, Nicola Festuccia, Elphège P Nora, Maaike Welling and 5 more

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Article in Nature, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 154 papers.

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154citing papers in PubMed
15.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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154 citing papers in PubMed, 265 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Elzo de WitHubrecht Institute-KNAW & University Medical Center Utrecht, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Britta A M Bouwman
Yun Zhu
Petra Klous
Erik Splinter
Marjon J A M Verstegen
Peter H L Krijger
Nicola Festuccia
Elphège P Nora
Maaike Welling
Edith Heard
Niels Geijsen
Raymond A Poot
Ian Chambers
Wouter de Laat
University Medical Center Utrecht · NLCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRMRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine · GBErasmus MC · NLUtrecht University · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is becoming increasingly clear that the shape of the genome importantly influences transcription regulation. Pluripotent stem cells such as embryonic stem cells were recently shown to organize their chromosomes into topological domains that are largely invariant between cell types. Here we combine chromatin conformation capture technologies with chromatin factor binding data to demonstrate that inactive chromatin is unusually disorganized in pluripotent stem-cell nuclei. We show that gene promoters engage in contacts between topological domains in a largely tissue-independent manner, whereas enhancers have a more tissue-restricted interaction profile. Notably, genomic clusters of pluripotency factor binding sites find each other very efficiently, in a manner that is strictly pluripotent-stem-cell-specific, dependent on the presence of Oct4 and Nanog protein and inducible after artificial recruitment of Nanog to a selected chromosomal site. We conclude that pluripotent stem cells have a unique higher-order genome structure shaped by pluripotency factors. We speculate that this interactome enhances the robustness of the pluripotent state.

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Chromosome PositioningImaging, Three-DimensionalAnimalsBinding SitesCell LineChromatinChromatin ImmunoprecipitationEmbryonic Stem CellsEnhancer Elements, GeneticGenomeHomeodomain ProteinsInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsMiceMolecular ImagingNanog Homeobox ProteinOctamer Transcription Factor-3ChromatinHomeodomain ProteinsNanog Homeobox ProteinNanog protein, mouseOctamer Transcription Factor-3Pou5f1 protein, mouseSox2 protein, mouseSOXB1 Transcription Factors

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PMID23883933
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