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 …

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 …

Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals

MJ Christmas, IM Kaplow, DP Genereux, MX Dong… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Zoonomia is the largest comparative genomics resource for mammals produced to date. By
aligning genomes for 240 species, we identify bases that, when mutated, are likely to affect …

Enhancer–promoter interactions can bypass CTCF-mediated boundaries and contribute to phenotypic robustness

S Chakraborty, N Kopitchinski, Z Zuo, A Eraso… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
How enhancers activate their distal target promoters remains incompletely understood. Here
we dissect how CTCF-mediated loops facilitate and restrict such regulatory interactions …

Diverse silent chromatin states modulate genome compartmentalization and loop extrusion barriers

G Spracklin, N Abdennur, M Imakaev… - Nature structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
The relationships between chromosomal compartmentalization, chromatin state and function
are poorly understood. Here by profiling long-range contact frequencies in HCT116 colon …

Methods for map** 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 …

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

H Zheng, W **e - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
In eukaryotes, the genome does not exist as a linear molecule but instead is hierarchically
packaged inside the nucleus. This complex genome organization includes multiscale …

Transcription factors and 3D genome conformation in cell-fate decisions

R Stadhouders, GJ Filion, T Graf - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
How cells adopt different identities has long fascinated biologists. Signal transduction in
response to environmental cues results in the activation of transcription factors that …

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 …

The structural basis for cohesin–CTCF-anchored loops

Y Li, JHI Haarhuis, Á Sedeño Cacciatore… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cohesin catalyses the folding of the genome into loops that are anchored by CTCF. The
molecular mechanism of how cohesin and CTCF structure the 3D genome has remained …