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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 10.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2019 Jan;20(1):55–64. doi: 10.1038/s41580-018-0077-z

Table 1 ∣.

Examples of mitotic bookmarking factors

Bookmarking factor System Role (specific function) Refs
TFIID, TFIIB and TBP HeLa (human, cervical cancer) General transcription factors 13-16
CTCF HeLa (human, cervical cancer) Insulator 28
FOXI1 PAC2 (zebrafish, fibroblasts) Forkhead transcription factor (development of cochlea and vestibulum) 79
RUNX2 Saos-2 (human, osteosarcoma) Runt transcription factor (osteoblastic differentiation and skeletal morphogenesis) 80
BRD4 NIH3T3 (mouse, fibroblasts) Chromatin reader 26
MLL HeLa (human, cervical cancer) Transcription co-activator 24
GATA1 G1E (mouse, erythroid precursors) Transcription factor (erythroid development) 18
FOXA1 HUH7 (human, hepatocarcinoma) Forkhead transcription factor (liver development) 19
RBPJ F9 (mouse, testis) Transcription regulator (regulation of Notch signalling pathway) 81
PARP1 HEK293 (mouse, kidney) Poly(ADP-ribosyl)transferase 82-84
ORC1 U2OS (human, osteocarcinoma) Origin of replication complex protein 85
RING1 and BMI1 HeLa (human, cervical cancer) Transcription repressors of the Polycomb group complex 1 86
HNF1β IMCD3 (mouse, kidney), MDCK (dog, kidney) and mouse kidney POU-homeobox transcription factor (kidney and pancreas development) 20,21
ESRRβ, SOX2, OCT4 and KLF4 Embryonic stem cells Pluripotency transcription factors 2,23,27,37

BMI1, Polycomb repressive complex; BRD4, bromodomain-containing protein 4; CTCF, CCCTC-binding factor; ESRRβ, oestrogen-related receptor-β; FOXA1, forkhead box protein A1; GATA1, GATA-binding protein 1; HNF1β, hepatocyte nuclear factor 1β; KLF4, Kruppel-like factor 4; MLL, myeloid/lymphoid or mixed-lineage leukaemia protein 1; OCT4, octamer-binding protein 4; ORC1, origin recognition complex subunit 1; PARP1, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1; RBPJ, recombining binding protein suppressor of hairless; RING1, RING finger protein 1; RUNX2, Runt-related transcription factor 2; SOX2, SRY box 2; TBP, TATA-box binding protein; TFIID, transcription factor IID.