Makiko Iwafuchi

The Pioneer Transcription Factor FoxA Maintains an Accessible Nucleosome Configuration at Enhancers for Tissue-Specific Gene Activation

Makiko Iwafuchi, Greg Donahue, Akshay Kakumanu et al. · Molecular Cell · 2016 · 393 citations · Full text

Chromatin, Transcriptional Regulation, Tissue-specific Gene Activation +13

Transcriptional regulatory networks in epiblast cells and during anterior neural plate development as modeled in epiblast stem cells

Makiko Iwafuchi, Kazunari Matsuda, Kazuhiro Murakami et al. · Development · 2012 · 91 citations

Epiblast Cells, Epiblastic State, Epiblast Stem Cells +20

Gene network transitions in embryos depend upon interactions between a pioneer transcription factor and core histones

Makiko Iwafuchi, Isabel Cuesta, Greg Donahue et al. · Nature Genetics · 2020 · 84 citations · Full text

Chromatin, Developmental Biology, Chromatin Remodeling +13

The Pou5f1/Pou3f-dependent but SoxB-independent regulation of conserved enhancer N2 initiates Sox2 expression during epiblast to neural plate stages in vertebrates

Makiko Iwafuchi, Yuzo Yoshida, Daria Onichtchouk et al. · Developmental Biology · 2010 · 75 citations

Transcriptional Regulation, Developmental Biology, Developmental Genetics +9

SOX transcription factors direct TCF-independent WNT/β-catenin responsive transcription to govern cell fate in human pluripotent stem cells

Shreyasi Mukherjee, David M. Luedeke, Leslie F. McCoy et al. · Cell Reports · 2022 · 56 citations · Full text