CRISPR in cancer biology and therapy

A Katti, BJ Diaz, CM Caragine, NE Sanjana… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, CRISPR has become as much a verb as it is an acronym,
transforming biomedical research and providing entirely new approaches for dissecting all …

Genome control by SMC complexes

C Hoencamp, BD Rowland - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Many cellular processes require large-scale rearrangements of chromatin structure.
Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) protein complexes are molecular machines …

Nonlinear control of transcription through enhancer–promoter interactions

J Zuin, G Roth, Y Zhan, J Cramard, J Redolfi… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Chromosome structure in mammals is thought to regulate transcription by modulating three-
dimensional interactions between enhancers and promoters, notably through CTCF …

Long-range enhancer–promoter contacts in gene expression control

S Schoenfelder, P Fraser - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Spatiotemporal gene expression programmes are orchestrated by transcriptional
enhancers, which are key regulatory DNA elements that engage in physical contacts with …

Computational methods for analysing multiscale 3D genome organization

Y Zhang, L Boninsegna, M Yang, T Misteli… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent progress in whole-genome map** and imaging technologies has enabled the
characterization of the spatial organization and folding of the genome in the nucleus. In …

The role of 3D genome organization in development and cell differentiation

H Zheng, W ** 3D chromosome architecture
R Kempfer, A Pombo - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Determining how chromosomes are positioned and folded within the nucleus is critical to
understanding the role of chromatin topology in gene regulation. Several methods are …

Circular ecDNA promotes accessible chromatin and high oncogene expression

S Wu, KM Turner, N Nguyen, R Raviram, M Erb… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Oncogenes are commonly amplified on particles of extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in
cancer,, but our understanding of the structure of ecDNA and its effect on gene regulation is …

The chromatin accessibility landscape of primary human cancers

MR Corces, JM Granja, S Shams, BH Louie… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Although the 2%
of the human genome that encodes proteins has been extensively studied, much remains to …