The differentiation and loss of the pluripotency of embryonic stem cells during development is closely related to gene silencing and activation mediated by DNA methylation and demethylation, respectively. Our goal is to understand the role played by epigenetic modifications in cell differentiation/dedifferentiation processes.
Image modified from Allis et al., 2007 (Allis, C. D., Jenuwein, T., and Reinberg, D. (2007).
Epigenetics (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press)).
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