Genome folding through loop extrusion by SMC complexes

IF Davidson, JM Peters - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Genomic DNA is folded into loops and topologically associating domains (TADs), which
serve important structural and regulatory roles. It has been proposed that these genomic …

The 3D genome as moderator of chromosomal communication

J Dekker, L Mirny - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Proper expression of genes requires communication with their regulatory elements that can
be located elsewhere along the chromosome. The physics of chromatin fibers imposes a …

Transcription shapes 3D chromatin organization by interacting with loop extrusion

EJ Banigan, W Tang, AA van den Berg… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Cohesin folds mammalian interphase chromosomes by extruding the chromatin fiber into
numerous loops.“Loop extrusion” can be impeded by chromatin-bound factors, such as …

DNA loop extrusion by human cohesin

IF Davidson, B Bauer, D Goetz, W Tang, G Wutz… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Eukaryotic genomes are folded into loops and topologically associating domains, which
contribute to chromatin structure, gene regulation, and gene recombination. These …

[HTML][HTML] Cohesin loss eliminates all loop domains

SSP Rao, SC Huang, BG St Hilaire, JM Engreitz… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The human genome folds to create thousands of intervals, called" contact domains," that
exhibit enhanced contact frequency within themselves." Loop domains" form because of …

[HTML][HTML] The energetics and physiological impact of cohesin extrusion

L Vian, A Pękowska, SSP Rao, KR Kieffer-Kwon… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Cohesin extrusion is thought to play a central role in establishing the architecture of
mammalian genomes. However, extrusion has not been visualized in vivo, and thus, its …

3D structures of individual mammalian genomes studied by single-cell Hi-C

TJ Stevens, D Lando, S Basu, LP Atkinson, Y Cao… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The folding of genomic DNA from the beads-on-a-string-like structure of nucleosomes into
higher-order assemblies is crucially linked to nuclear processes. Here we calculate 3D …

Transcriptionally active HERV-H retrotransposons demarcate topologically associating domains in human pluripotent stem cells

Y Zhang, T Li, S Preissl, ML Amaral, JD Grinstein… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Chromatin architecture has been implicated in cell type-specific gene regulatory programs,
yet how chromatin remodels during development remains to be fully elucidated. Here, by …

Transcription elongation can affect genome 3D structure

S Heinz, L Texari, MGB Hayes, M Urbanowski… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
How transcription affects genome 3D organization is not well understood. We found that
during influenza A (IAV) infection, rampant transcription rapidly reorganizes host cell …

The role of transcription in sha** the spatial organization of the genome

B van Steensel, EEM Furlong - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
The spatial organization of the genome into compartments and topologically associated
domains can have an important role in the regulation of gene expression. But could gene …