Hallmarks of sex bias in immuno-oncology: mechanisms and therapeutic implications

T **ao, J Lee, TD Gauntner, M Velegraki… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Sex differences are present across multiple non-reproductive organ cancers, with male
individuals generally experiencing higher incidence of cancer with poorer outcomes …

Enhancer RNAs are an important regulatory layer of the epigenome

V Sartorelli, SM Lauberth - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2020 - nature.com
Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) direct a remarkable number of diverse functions in development
and disease through their regulation of transcription, RNA processing and translation …

Single-cell nascent RNA sequencing unveils coordinated global transcription

DB Mahat, ND Tippens, JD Martin-Rufino, SK Waterton… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Transcription is the primary regulatory step in gene expression. Divergent transcription
initiation from promoters and enhancers produces stable RNAs from genes and unstable …

Sex differences in brain protein expression and disease

AP Wingo, Y Liu, ES Gerasimov, SM Vattathil, J Liu… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Most complex human traits differ by sex, but we have limited insight into the underlying
mechanisms. Here, we investigated the influence of biological sex on protein expression …

Promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II: a nexus of gene regulation

L Core, K Adelman - Genes & development, 2019 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Precise spatio–temporal control of gene activity is essential for organismal development,
growth, and survival in a changing environment. Decisive steps in gene regulation involve …

RNA polymerase II speed: a key player in controlling and adapting transcriptome composition

L Muniz, E Nicolas, D Trouche - The EMBO journal, 2021 - embopress.org
Abstract RNA polymerase II (RNA Pol II) speed or elongation rate, ie, the number of
nucleotides synthesized per unit of time, is a major determinant of transcriptome …

Transcriptional control of energy metabolism by nuclear receptors

C Scholtes, V Giguère - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
Transcriptional regulation of catabolic pathways is a central mechanism by which cells
respond to physiological cues to generate the energy required for anabolic pathways …

Phase separation of ligand-activated enhancers licenses cooperative chromosomal enhancer assembly

SJ Nair, L Yang, D Meluzzi, S Oh, F Yang… - Nature structural & …, 2019 - nature.com
A crucial feature of differentiated cells is the rapid activation of enhancer-driven
transcriptional programs in response to signals. The potential contributions of …

The Landscape of long noncoding RNA classification

GS Laurent, C Wahlestedt, P Kapranov - Trends in genetics, 2015 - cell.com
Advances in the depth and quality of transcriptome sequencing have revealed many new
classes of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). lncRNA classification has mushroomed to …

Enhancers as non-coding RNA transcription units: recent insights and future perspectives

W Li, D Notani, MG Rosenfeld - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Networks of regulatory enhancers dictate distinct cell identities and cellular responses to
diverse signals by instructing precise spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression. However …