Low-affinity binding sites and the transcription factor specificity paradox in eukaryotes

JF Kribelbauer, C Rastogi… - Annual review of cell …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Eukaryotic transcription factors (TFs) from the same structural family tend to bind similar DNA
sequences, despite the ability of these TFs to execute distinct functions in vivo. The cell …

An efficient targeted nuclease strategy for high-resolution map** of DNA binding sites

PJ Skene, S Henikoff - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
We describe Cleavage Under Targets and Release Using Nuclease (CUT&RUN), a
chromatin profiling strategy in which antibody-targeted controlled cleavage by micrococcal …

The GAL4 system: a versatile system for the manipulation and analysis of gene expression

EE Caygill, AH Brand - Drosophila: Methods and Protocols, 2016 - Springer
Since its introduction in 1993, the GAL4 system has become an essential part of the
Drosophila geneticist's toolkit. Widely used to drive gene expression in a multitude of cell …

[HTML][HTML] Organoid modeling of human fetal lung alveolar development reveals mechanisms of cell fate patterning and neonatal respiratory disease

K Lim, APA Donovan, W Tang, D Sun, P He, JP Pett… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Variation in lung alveolar development is strongly linked to disease susceptibility. However,
underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms are difficult to study in humans. We have …

A complete temporal transcription factor series in the fly visual system

N Konstantinides, I Holguera, AM Rossi, A Escobar… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The brain consists of thousands of neuronal types that are generated by stem cells
producing different neuronal types as they age. In Drosophila, this temporal patterning is …

Decoding gene regulation in the fly brain

J Janssens, S Aibar, II Taskiran, JN Ismail, AE Gomez… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The Drosophila brain is a frequently used model in neuroscience. Single-cell transcriptome
analysis,,,,–, three-dimensional morphological classification and electron microscopy …

[HTML][HTML] TRIBE: hijacking an RNA-editing enzyme to identify cell-specific targets of RNA-binding proteins

AC McMahon, R Rahman, H **, JL Shen, A Fieldsend… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
RNA transcripts are bound and regulated by RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). Current methods
for identifying in vivo targets of an RBP are imperfect and not amenable to examining small …

A large-scale resource for tissue-specific CRISPR mutagenesis in Drosophila

F Port, C Strein, M Stricker, B Rauscher, F Heigwer… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Genetic screens are powerful tools for the functional annotation of genomes. In the context of
multicellular organisms, interrogation of gene function is greatly facilitated by methods that …

Cell cycle heterogeneity directs the timing of neural stem cell activation from quiescence

L Otsuki, AH Brand - Science, 2018 - science.org
Quiescent stem cells in adult tissues can be activated for homeostasis or repair. Neural stem
cells (NSCs) in Drosophila are reactivated from quiescence in response to nutrition by the …

Cell cycle dynamics of lamina‐associated DNA

T van Schaik, M Vos, D Peric‐Hupkes, P HN Celie… - EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
In mammalian interphase nuclei, more than one thousand large genomic regions are
positioned at the nuclear lamina (NL). These lamina‐associated domains (LAD s) are …