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 …

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 …

Ever-changing landscapes: transcriptional enhancers in development and evolution

HK Long, SL Prescott, J Wysocka - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
A class of cis-regulatory elements, called enhancers, play a central role in orchestrating
spatiotemporally precise gene-expression programs during development. Consequently …

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 …

The relationship between genome structure and function

AM Oudelaar, DR Higgs - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Precise patterns of gene expression in metazoans are controlled by three classes of
regulatory elements: promoters, enhancers and boundary elements. During differentiation …

Principles of genome folding into topologically associating domains

Q Szabo, F Bantignies, G Cavalli - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Understanding the mechanisms that underlie chromosome folding within cell nuclei is
essential to determine the relationship between genome structure and function. The recent …

[HTML][HTML] CTCF binding polarity determines chromatin loo**

E de Wit, ESM Vos, SJB Holwerda, C Valdes-Quezada… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) is an architectural protein involved in the three-dimensional
(3D) organization of chromatin. In this study, we assayed the 3D genomic contact profiles of …

CTCF and cohesin in genome folding and transcriptional gene regulation

M Merkenschlager, EP Nora - Annual review of genomics and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Genome function, replication, integrity, and propagation rely on the dynamic structural
organization of chromosomes during the cell cycle. Genome folding in interphase provides …

Insulated neighborhoods: structural and functional units of mammalian gene control

D Hnisz, DS Day, RA Young - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Understanding how transcriptional enhancers control over 20,000 protein-coding genes to
maintain cell-type-specific gene expression programs in all human cells is a fundamental …

Breaking TADs: how alterations of chromatin domains result in disease

DG Lupiáñez, M Spielmann, S Mundlos - Trends in Genetics, 2016 - cell.com
Spatial organization is an inherent property of the vertebrate genome to accommodate the
roughly 2m of DNA in the nucleus of a cell. In this nonrandom organization, topologically …