Bergman Yehudit, Simon Itamar, Cedar Howard
Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC), Jerusalem, Israel.
Front Cell Dev Biol. 2021 Oct 1;9:737681. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2021.737681. eCollection 2021.
Developmental programming is carried out by a sequence of molecular choices that epigenetically mark the genome to generate the stable cell types which make up the total organism. A number of important processes, such as genomic imprinting, selection of immune or olfactory receptors, and X-chromosome inactivation in females are dependent on the ability to stably choose one single allele in each cell. In this perspective, we propose that asynchronous replication timing (ASRT) serves as the basis for a sophisticated universal mechanism for mediating and maintaining these decisions.
发育编程是通过一系列分子选择来进行的,这些选择在表观遗传上标记基因组,以产生构成整个生物体的稳定细胞类型。许多重要过程,如基因组印记、免疫或嗅觉受体的选择以及雌性个体中的X染色体失活,都依赖于在每个细胞中稳定选择单个等位基因的能力。从这个角度来看,我们提出异步复制时间(ASRT)作为一种复杂的通用机制的基础,用于介导和维持这些决定。