title: Hijacked by an oocyte: hierarchical molecular changes in somatic cell nuclear transfer.
abstract: Xenopus oocytes can epigenetically reprogram mouse somatic cells toward totipotency. In this issue, Jullien et al. (2014) now describe rapid, interdependent molecular events that facilitate this reprogramming.
authors.affiliation: The Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
authors.forename: Itay
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Maza
authors.affiliation: The Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel. Electronic address: jacob.hanna@weizmann.ac.il.
authors.forename: Jacob H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Hanna
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D065150:Cellular Reprogramming / Q000235:genetics*; D002843:Chromatin / Q000378:metabolism*; D006657:Histones / Q000502:physiology*; D009865:Oocytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D014981:Xenopus / Q000196:embryology*
chemical_list: D002843:Chromatin; D006657:Histones