Epigenome editing technologies for discovery and medicine

SR McCutcheon, D Rohm, N Iglesias… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Epigenome editing has rapidly evolved in recent years, with diverse applications that
include elucidating gene regulation mechanisms, annotating coding and noncoding …

Commonly asked questions about transcriptional activation domains

A Udupa, SR Kotha, MV Staller - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Eukaryotic transcription factors activate gene expression with their DNA-binding domains
and activation domains. DNA-binding domains bind the genome by recognizing structurally …

Development of compact transcriptional effectors using high-throughput measurements in diverse contexts

J Tycko, MV Van, Aradhana, N DelRosso, H Ye… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Transcriptional effectors are protein domains known to activate or repress gene expression;
however, a systematic understanding of which effector domains regulate transcription across …

A modular dCas9-based recruitment platform for combinatorial epigenome editing

T Swain, C Pflueger, S Freytag, D Poppe… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Targeted epigenome editing tools allow precise manipulation and investigation of genome
modifications, however they often display high context dependency and variable efficacy …

Sp140L Is a Novel Herpesvirus Restriction Factor

JM Cable, W Wongwiwat, J Grabowski, RE White… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Herpesviruses, including the oncogenic Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), must bypass host DNA
sensing mechanisms to establish infection. The first viral latency protein expressed, EBNA …

HerpesFolds: A proteome-wide structural systems approach reveals insights into protein families and activities of all nine human herpesviruses

TK Soh, S Ognibene, S Sanders, BB Kaufer, JB Bosse - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Structure predictions have become invaluable tools for wet lab science by accelerating the
generation of structure-based hypotheses. While AlphaFold-predicted structures are …

Using High-Throughput Measurements to Identify Principles of Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulators

N DelRosso, L Bintu - Epigenome Editing: Methods and Protocols, 2024 - Springer
To achieve exquisite control over the epigenome, we need a better predictive understanding
of how transcription factors, chromatin regulators, and their individual domain's function …

Designing Epigenome Editors: Considerations of Biochemical and Locus Specificities

ZB Yagci, GR Kelkar, TJ Johnson, D Sen… - … Editing: Methods and …, 2024 - Springer
The advent of locus-specific protein recruitment technologies has enabled a new class of
studies in chromatin biology. Epigenome editors (EEs) enable biochemical modifications of …

Bridging bioengineering and epigenetics: from technical innovations to clinical applications

J Jacob, QC van Loosen… - Epigenetics …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The 7th International Conference on Epigenetics & Bioengineering held in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands was a successful event covering cutting-edge research …

High-throughput discovery of regulatory effector domains in human RNA-binding proteins

AR Thurm, Y Finkel, C Andrews, XS Cai, C Benko… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
RNA regulation plays an integral role in tuning gene expression and is controlled by
thousands of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). We develop and use a high-throughput …