Imperial College London
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Professor Dame Amanda Fisher

Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Sciences

Visiting Professor
 
 
 
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amanda.fisher

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Alessandra Lisini +44 (0)20 3313 8236

 
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Location

 

CRB (Clinical Research Building)Hammersmith Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Cantone:2017:10.1098/rstb.2016.0358,
author = {Cantone, I and Fisher, AG},
doi = {10.1098/rstb.2016.0358},
journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
title = {Human X chromosome inactivation and reactivation: implications for cell reprogramming and disease},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0358},
volume = {372},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - X chromosome inactivation (XCI) is an exemplar of epigenetic regulation that is set up as pluripotent cells differentiate. Once established, XCI is stably propagated, but can be reversed in vivo or by pluripotent reprogramming in vitro. Although reprogramming provides a useful model for inactive X (Xi) reactivation in mouse, the relative instability andheterogeneity of human ESCs and iPSCs, hampers comparable progress in human. Here we review studies aimed at reactivating the human Xi using different reprogramming strategies. We outline our recent results using mouse ESCs to reprogram female human fibroblasts by cell-cell fusion. We show that pluripotent reprogramming induces widespread and rapid chromatin remodelling in which the human Xi loses XIST and H3K27m3 enrichment and selected Xi genes become reactivated, ahead of mitotic division. Using RNA sequencing to map the extent of human Xi reactivation, and chromatin modifying drugs to potentiate reactivation, we outline how this approach could be used to better design strategies to reexpress human X-linked loci. As cell fusion induces the expression of human pluripotency genes that represent both the 'primed' and 'naïve' states, this approach may also offer a fresh opportunity to segregate human pluripotent states with distinct Xi expression profiles, using single-cell-based approaches.
AU  - Cantone,I
AU  - Fisher,AG
DO  - 10.1098/rstb.2016.0358
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 1471-2970
TI  - Human X chromosome inactivation and reactivation: implications for cell reprogramming and disease
T2  - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0358
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/43703
VL  - 372
ER  -
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