title: Committing to a hairy fate: epigenetic regulation of hair follicle stem cells.
abstract: Chromatin modifications are important for embryonic stem cell (ESC) pluripotency, but their functions in adult stem cells are less clear. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Lien et al. (2011) delineate histone methylation patterns in hair follicle stem cells and show that these marks differ from those of ESCs.
authors: Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6100, USA. millars@mail.med.upenn.edu
authors: Sarah E
authors: SE
authors: Millar
mesh_terms: D053687:Adult Stem Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D018859:Hair Follicle / Q000378:metabolism*; D006657:Histones / Q000378:metabolism*; D063146:Polycomb-Group Proteins; D012097:Repressor Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D006657:Histones; D063146:Polycomb-Group Proteins; D012097:Repressor Proteins