Epigenetics Podcast5 Nov 2020

Pioneer Transcription Factors and Their Influence on Chromatin Structure (Ken Zaret)

In this episode of the Epigenetics Podcast, we caught up with Dr. Ken Zaret, Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, to talk about his work on pioneer transcription factors and their influence on chromatin structure.

Embryonic development is a complex process that needs to be tightly regulated. Multiple regulatory factors contribute to proper development, including a family of specialized regulatory proteins called "pioneer factors." Our guest Dr. Ken Zaret found that these pioneer factors are among the first proteins to bind to chromatin during development and that they can prime important regulatory genes for activation at a later developmental stage. Furthermore, he and his team showed that there might be a "pre-pattern" that exists in cells that determines their developmental fate.

Pioneer factors are not only important in embryonic development, they can also help restart transcription after mitosis. Dr. Zaret and his colleagues demonstrated that FoxA stays bound to chromosomes during mitosis, leading to a rapid reactivation of essential genes at the exit of mitosis.

In this interview, we discuss the story behind how Dr. Zaret discovered pioneer transcription factors like FoxA, how these factors are influenced by the chromatin environment, and how they function.

References

R. Gualdi, P. Bossard, … K. S. Zaret (1996) Hepatic specification of the gut endoderm in vitro: cell signaling and transcriptional control (Genes & Development) DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.13.1670
L. A. Cirillo, C. E. McPherson, … K. S. Zaret (1998) Binding of the winged-helix transcription factor HNF3 to a linker histone site on the nucleosome (The EMBO journal) DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.1.244
Lisa Ann Cirillo, Frank Robert Lin, … Kenneth S. Zaret (2002) Opening of compacted chromatin by early developmental transcription factors HNF3 (FoxA) and GATA-4 (Molecular Cell) DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(02)00459-8
Kenneth S. Zaret (2020) Pioneer Transcription Factors Initiating Gene Network Changes (Annual Review of Genetics) DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-030220-015007

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