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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2025

Canonical and Variant Nucleosome Reprogramming from Sperm to Blastula.

Fanju W Meng, Patrick J Murphy

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Fanju W MengDepartment of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
Patrick J MurphyDepartment of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA. patrick_murphy@urmc.rochester.edu.

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Function of Chromatin Features in Cellular ProgrammingR35GM137833 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI Patrick J. Murphy · 2020 to 2026
$2.8M
Regulation and function of H2A.Z during the mid-blastula transitionR01HD105489 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI Patrick J. Murphy, MICHAEL Andreas WELTE · 2022 to 2026
$1.7M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD105489NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM137833
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Abstract

Epigenetic reprogramming of chromatin, mediated through modifications to canonical histones and the incorporation of histone variants, plays a central role in the establishment of cell identity and regulation of gene expression programs. Such epigenetic programming becomes particularly important during the development of highly specialized cell types such as germ cells-sperm and oocytes, and stem cells within the blastula of early embryos. Determining patterns of epigenetic modifications within these cell types can be particularly challenging due to technical limitations associated with limited starting materials. Here we present a brief overview of studies focused on epigenetic reprogramming during the transition from sperm to blastula stage embryos and compare between several diverse model systems including Drosophila, zebrafish and mammals. Furthermore, we discuss and compare prevailing genomic profiling approaches, such as ChIP-Seq, CUT&Tag, and CUT&RUN, for performing genome-wide epigenomic analysis.

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BlastulaCellular ReprogrammingNucleosomesSpermatozoaAnimalsEpigenesis, GeneticEpigenomicsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHistonesMaleZebrafishHistonesNucleosomesChIP-seqCUT&RUNCUT&TagEpigeneticsHistoneNucleosomeReprogrammingSpermZygotic genome activation

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