@article{6213c3b0e2b2411fae6c392d877d5cd3,
title = "LSD1 regulates the balance between self-renewal and differentiation in human embryonic stem cells",
abstract = "We identify LSD1 (lysine-specific demethylase 1; also known as KDM1A and AOF2) as a key histone modifier that participates in the maintenance of pluripotency through the regulation of bivalent domains, a chromatin environment present at the regulatory regions of developmental genes that contains both H3K4 di/trimethylation and H3K27 trimethylation marks. LSD1 occupies the promoters of a subset of developmental genes that contain bivalent domains and are co-occupied by OCT4 and NANOG in human embryonic stem cells, where it controls the levels of H3K4 methylation through its demethylase activity. Thus, LSD1 has a role in maintaining the silencing of several developmental genes in human embryonic stem cells by regulating the critical balance between H3K4 and H3K27 methylation at their regulatory regions.",
author = "Antonio Adamo and Borja Ses{\'e} and Stephanie Boue and Julio Casta{\~n}o and Ida Paramonov and Barrero, {Maria J.} and Belmonte, {Juan Carlos Izpisua}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank S. Malik and I. Martinez for critical reading of the manuscript, D. Trono for plasmids pLVTHM and psPAX2, T. Pratt for plasmid pTP6, A. Consiglio for assistance with viral preparations and infection, R. Vassena, I. Rodriguez and A. Sanchez for help with the differentiation experiments, B. Christen for advice on cell treatments and V. Astro for assistance with movie preparation. M.J.B. was partially supported by the Ram{\'o}n y Cajal programme. B.S. is a predoctoral fellow from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovaci{\'o}n of Spain. This work was partially supported by grants RYC-2007-01510 and SAF2009-08588 from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovaci{\'o}n of Spain to M.J.B. and grants from the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, Sanofi-Aventis, MICINN, CIBER and Fundacion Cellex to J.C.I.B.",
year = "2011",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1038/ncb2246",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "13",
pages = "652--661",
journal = "Nature Cell Biology",
issn = "1465-7392",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "6",
}