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Mechanisms and models of somatic cell reprogramming

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Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Jerome and Florence Brill Graduate Student Fellowship) as discussed by the authors ) was the first recipient of the WBIR grant. But this work was performed in a supervised setting.
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Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Jerome and Florence Brill Graduate Student Fellowship)

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Transcriptional Addiction in Cancer

TL;DR: How transcriptional control is disrupted by genetic alterations in cancer cells, why transcriptional dependencies can develop as a consequence of dysregulated programs, and how these dependencies provide opportunities for novel therapeutic interventions in cancer are discussed.
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A decade of transcription factor-mediated reprogramming to pluripotency

TL;DR: The mechanisms underlying transcription factor-mediated reprogramming are still poorly understood; however, several mechanistic insights have recently been obtained, making it more amenable to applications in the fields of regenerative medicine, disease modelling and drug discovery.
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Pioneer transcription factors target partial DNA motifs on nucleosomes to initiate reprogramming

TL;DR: This work compares the nucleosome and chromatin targeting activities of Oct4, Sox2, and Klf4, which together reprogram somatic cells to pluripotency and provides insight into how pioneer factors can target naive chromatin sites.
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Transcription factors as readers and effectors of DNA methylation

TL;DR: Evidence is emerging to suggest that transcription factors lacking a MBD can also interact with methylated DNA, and the identification of these proteins and the elucidation of their characteristics and the biological consequences are important stepping stones towards a mechanistic understanding of methylation-mediated biological processes.
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