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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kato M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5923290 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180427 1
Subsets of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are derepressed in mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) deficient for Setdb1, which catalyzes histone H3 lysine 9 trimethylation (H3K9me3). Most of those ERVs, including IAPs, remain silent if Setdb1 is deleted in differentiated embryonic cells; however they are derepressed when deficient for Dnmt1, suggesting that Setdb1 is dispensable for ERV silencing in somatic cells. However, H3K9me3 enrichment on ERVs is maintained in differentiated cells and is most ...[more]