Parental nucleosome segregation and the inheritance of cellular identity
- 25 January 2021
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Reviews Genetics
- Vol. 22 (6), 379-392
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-020-00312-w
Abstract
Maintenance of cell-type identity requires the faithful inheritance of chromatin states through cell division, despite the challenges posed by the disruptive passage of the DNA replication fork and the dilution of nucleosome components in complex with the daughter DNA strands. In this Review, Escobar, Loyola and Reinberg discuss how methodological advances are providing unprecedented mechanistic insights into the segregation of parental nucleosomes, how these mechanisms maintain gene expression programmes and how non-faithful nucleosome segregation is linked to differentiation and disease. Gene expression programmes conferring cellular identity are achieved through the organization of chromatin structures that either facilitate or impede transcription. Among the key determinants of chromatin organization are the histone modifications that correlate with a given transcriptional status and chromatin state. Until recently, the details for the segregation of nucleosomes on DNA replication and their implications in re-establishing heritable chromatin domains remained unclear. Here, we review recent findings detailing the local segregation of parental nucleosomes and highlight important advances as to how histone methyltransferases associated with the establishment of repressive chromatin domains facilitate epigenetic inheritance.This publication has 163 references indexed in Scilit:
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