Yehudit Bergman - Selected publications#

• Schlesinger Y, Straussman R, Keshet I, Farkash S, Hecht M, Zimmerman J, Eden E, Yakhini Z, Ben-Shushan E, Reubinoff BE, Bergman Y, Simon I, Cedar H. Polycombmediated methylation on Lys27 of histone H3 pre-marks genes for de novo methylation in cancer. Nat Genet. 2007 Feb;39(2):232-6.
• Fraenkel S, Bergman Y. Variability and exclusion in host and parasite: epigenetic regulation of Ig and var expression. J Immunol. 2006 Nov 1;177(9):5767-74.
• Feldman N, Gerson A, Fang J, Li E, Zhang Y, Shinkai Y, Cedar H, Bergman Y. G9amediated irreversible epigenetic inactivation of Oct-3/4 during early embryogenesis. Nat Cell Biol. 2006 Feb;8(2):188-94.
• Goldmit M, Ji Y, Skok J, Roldan E, Jung S, Cedar H, Bergman Y. Epigenetic ontogeny of the Igk locus during B cell development. Nat Immunol. 2005 Feb;6(2):198-203.
• Bergman Y, Cedar H. A stepwise epigenetic process controls immunoglobulin allelic exclusion. Nat Rev Immunol. 2004 Oct;4(10):753-61.
• Goldmit M, Bergman Y. Monoallelic gene expression: a repertoire of recurrent themes. Immunol Rev. 2004 Aug;200:197-214.
• Mostoslavsky, R., Singh, N., Tenzen, T., Goldmit, M., Gabay, C., Elizur, S., Qi, P., Reubinoff, B. E., Chess, A., Cedar, H. and Bergman, Y. (2001) Asynchronous replication and allelic exclusion in the immune system. Nature 414:221-225.
  • Highlight on #37. Bell, J. (2001) Out of sync. Nature Reviews Immunology 1:169.
  • Dispatch on #37. Rada, C. and Ferguson-Smith, A. C. (2002) Epigenetics: monoallelic expression in the immune system. Current Biology 12:R108-R110.
• Gidekel, S., Pisov, G, Bergman, Y. and Pikarsky, E. (2003) Oct-3/4 is a dosedependent oncogenic fate determinant. Cancer Cell 4:361-370. (Featured Article)
  • Preview on #43. Abate-Shen, C. (2003) Homeobox genes and cancer: New OCTaves for an old tune. Cancer Cell 4:329-330.
  • News on #43. Holding C. (2003) Embryos and cancer -Early embryonic pluripotency gene controls malignant phenotype in germ cells. The Scientist December 3, 2003.
  • Highlight on #43. Greenwood E. (2003) Oncogenes -Determining fate. Nature Reviews Cancer (in press).