Enhancer selectivity in space and time: from enhancer–promoter interactions to promoter activation

JH Yang, AS Hansen - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
The primary regulators of metazoan gene expression are enhancers, originally functionally
defined as DNA sequences that can activate transcription at promoters in an orientation …

Identification of non-coding silencer elements and their regulation of gene expression

B Pang, JH van Weerd, FL Hamoen… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Cell type-and differentiation-specific gene expression is precisely controlled by genomic non-
coding regulatory elements (NCREs), which include promoters, enhancers, silencers and …

Interpreting cis-regulatory interactions from large-scale deep neural networks

S Toneyan, PK Koo - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
The rise of large-scale, sequence-based deep neural networks (DNNs) for predicting gene
expression has introduced challenges in their evaluation and interpretation. Current …

DeepICSH: a complex deep learning framework for identifying cell-specific silencers and their strength from the human genome

T Zhang, L Li, H Sun, D Xu, G Wang - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Silencers are noncoding DNA sequence fragments located on the genome that suppress
gene expression. The variation of silencers in specific cells is closely related to gene …

Oncogenic transcription factors instruct promoter-enhancer hubs in individual triple negative breast cancer cells

J Zhao, Y Zhou, I Tzelepis, NG Burget, J Shi… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Sequencing-based map** of ensemble pairwise interactions among regulatory elements
support the existence of topological assemblies known as promoter-enhancer hubs or …

Phase separation: Direct and indirect driving force for high-order chromatin organization

X Li, Z An, W Zhang, F Li - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The multi-level spatial chromatin organization in the nucleus is closely related to chromatin
activity. The mechanism of chromatin organization and remodeling attract much attention …

SilenceREIN: seeking silencers on anchors of chromatin loops by deep graph neural networks

JH Pan, PF Du - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Silencers are repressive cis-regulatory elements that play crucial roles in transcriptional
regulation. Experimental methods for identifying silencers are always costly and time …

Enhancer–promoter entanglement explains their transcriptional interdependence

AK Panigrahi, DM Lonard, BW O'Malley - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - pnas.org
Enhancers not only activate target promoters to stimulate messenger RNA (mRNA)
synthesis, but they themselves also undergo transcription to produce enhancer RNAs …

[HTML][HTML] Repressor elements provide insights into tissue development and phenotypes in pigs

YD Zhang, C Guo, H Liu, Y Gao, Y Tan… - Zoological …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Repressor elements significantly influence economically relevant phenotypes in pigs;
however, their precise roles and characteristics are inadequately understood. In the present …

Cis-regulatory atlas of primary human CD4+ T cells

K Stefan, A Barski - BMC genomics, 2023 - Springer
Cis-regulatory elements (CRE) are critical for coordinating gene expression programs that
dictate cell-specific differentiation and homeostasis. Recently developed self-transcribing …