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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

Lower-order methylation states underlie the maintenance and re-establishment of Polycomb modifications in

Eleanor A Degen, Natalie Gonzaga-Saavedra, Shelby A Blythe

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 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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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Eleanor A DegenInterdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0832-4507
Natalie Gonzaga-SaavedraInterdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States.ORCID 0009-0003-1962-8308
Shelby A BlytheInterdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4986-2579

Funding

CELLULAR &MOLECULAR BASIS OF DISEASE TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008061 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI CARTHEW, RICHARD W. · 1985 to 2022
$17.1M
Defining epigenetic mechanisms for embryonic patterningR01HD101563 · NICHD · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI Shelby Alexander Blythe · 2021 to 2026
$2.0M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD101563NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008061
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polycomb Group (PcG) proteins regulate the chromatin composition of an embryo by facilitating the mono, di, and tri-methylation of Histone H3 Lysine 27 (H3K27me1/2/3). For the zygote to inherit an H3K27 methylation blueprint from its mother, PcG-modified states established during oogenesis must persist through early embryogenesis until the onset of large-scale zygotic transcription (Zygotic Genome Activation, ZGA). However, questions have persisted regarding the relative contributions of two molecular mechanisms to the propagation of H3K27 methylation through early development: 1) allosteric regulation of the H3K27 methyltransferase Enhancer of Zeste (

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PMID40766521
PMCPMC12324246

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