Molecular Cell
Volume 71, Issue 3, 2 August 2018, Pages 375-388
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Shaping Gene Expression by Landscaping Chromatin Architecture: Lessons from a Master

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Since its discovery as a skeletal muscle-specific transcription factor able to reprogram somatic cells into differentiated myofibers, MyoD has provided an instructive model to understand how transcription factors regulate gene expression. Reciprocally, studies of other transcriptional regulators have provided testable hypotheses to further understand how MyoD activates transcription. Using MyoD as a reference, in this review, we discuss the similarities and differences in the regulatory mechanisms employed by tissue-specific transcription factors to access DNA and regulate gene expression by cooperatively shaping the chromatin landscape within the context of cellular differentiation.

Keywords

gene expression
chromatin architecture
epigenetics
transcription factors
pioneer factors
MyoD
myogenesis

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