Understanding 3D genome organization by multidisciplinary methods

I Jerkovic, G Cavalli - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding how chromatin is folded in the nucleus is fundamental to understanding its
function. Although 3D genome organization has been historically difficult to study owing to a …

Genome-wide map** and analysis of chromosome architecture

AD Schmitt, M Hu, B Ren - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2016 - nature.com
Chromosomes of eukaryotes adopt highly dynamic and complex hierarchical structures in
the nucleus. The three-dimensional (3D) organization of chromosomes profoundly affects …

YY1 is a structural regulator of enhancer-promoter loops

AS Weintraub, CH Li, AV Zamudio, AA Sigova… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
There is considerable evidence that chromosome structure plays important roles in gene
control, but we have limited understanding of the proteins that contribute to structural …

Topologically associating domains and chromatin loops depend on cohesin and are regulated by CTCF, WAPL, and PDS5 proteins

G Wutz, C Várnai, K Nagasaka, DA Cisneros… - The EMBO …, 2017 - embopress.org
Mammalian genomes are spatially organized into compartments, topologically associating
domains (TADs), and loops to facilitate gene regulation and other chromosomal functions …

Lineage-specific genome architecture links enhancers and non-coding disease variants to target gene promoters

BM Javierre, OS Burren, SP Wilder, R Kreuzhuber… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Long-range interactions between regulatory elements and gene promoters play key roles in
transcriptional regulation. The vast majority of interactions are uncharted, constituting a …

Cell-cycle dynamics of chromosomal organization at single-cell resolution

T Nagano, Y Lubling, C Várnai, C Dudley, W Leung… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Chromosomes in proliferating metazoan cells undergo marked structural metamorphoses
every cell cycle, alternating between highly condensed mitotic structures that facilitate …

HiCUP: pipeline for map** and processing Hi-C data

S Wingett, P Ewels, M Furlan-Magaril… - …, 2015 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
HiCUP is a pipeline for processing sequence data generated by Hi-C and Capture Hi-C
(CHi-C) experiments, which are techniques used to investigate three-dimensional genomic …

LHX2- and LDB1-mediated trans interactions regulate olfactory receptor choice

K Monahan, A Horta, S Lomvardas - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The genome is partitioned into topologically associated domains and genomic
compartments with shared chromatin valence. This architecture is constrained by the DNA …

HiChIP: efficient and sensitive analysis of protein-directed genome architecture

MR Mumbach, AJ Rubin, RA Flynn, C Dai, PA Khavari… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Genome conformation is central to gene control but challenging to interrogate. Here we
present HiChIP, a protein-centric chromatin conformation method. HiChIP improves the yield …

Human pancreatic islet three-dimensional chromatin architecture provides insights into the genetics of type 2 diabetes

I Miguel-Escalada, S Bonàs-Guarch, I Cebola… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Genetic studies promise to provide insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying type 2
diabetes (T2D). Variants associated with T2D are often located in tissue-specific enhancer …