Chromatin accessibility: methods, mechanisms, and biological insights

AR Mansisidor, VI Risca - Nucleus, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Access to DNA is a prerequisite to the execution of essential cellular processes that include
transcription, replication, chromosomal segregation, and DNA repair. How the proteins that …

Functional characterization of Alzheimer's disease genetic variants in microglia

X Yang, J Wen, H Yang, IR Jones, X Zhu, W Liu, B Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Candidate cis-regulatory elements (cCREs) in microglia demonstrate the most substantial
enrichment for Alzheimer's disease (AD) heritability compared to other brain cell types …

A single-cell multimodal view on gene regulatory network inference from transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility data

JU Loers, V Vermeirssen - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Eukaryotic gene regulation is a combinatorial, dynamic, and quantitative process that plays
a vital role in development and disease and can be modeled at a systems level in gene …

Mechanoepigenetic regulation of extracellular matrix homeostasis via Yap and Taz

DL Jones, GF Hallström, X Jiang, RC Locke… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Cells integrate mechanical cues to direct fate specification to maintain tissue function and
homeostasis. While disruption of these cues is known to lead to aberrant cell behavior and …

Multi-omics analysis reveals the dynamic interplay between Vero host chromatin structure and function during vaccinia virus infection

V Venu, C Roth, SH Adikari, EM Small… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
The genome folds into complex configurations and structures thought to profoundly impact
its function. The intricacies of this dynamic structure-function relationship are not well …

Pioneer activity distinguishes activating from non‐activating SOX2 binding sites

M Maresca, T van den Brand, H Li, H Teunissen… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Genome‐wide transcriptional activity involves the binding of many transcription factors (TFs)
to thousands of sites in the genome. Pioneer TFs are a class of TFs that maintain open …

Two-way feedback between chromatin compaction and histone modification state explains Saccharomyces cerevisiae heterochromatin bistability

A Movilla Miangolarra, DS Saxton, Z Yan… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Compact chromatin is closely linked with gene silencing in part by sterically masking access
to promoters, inhibiting transcription factor binding and preventing polymerase from …

Multiome Perturb-seq unlocks scalable discovery of integrated perturbation effects on the transcriptome and epigenome

E Metzner, KM Southard, TM Norman - Cell systems, 2025 - cell.com
Single-cell CRISPR screens link genetic perturbations to transcriptional states, but high-
throughput methods connecting these induced changes to their regulatory foundations are …

Quantitative analysis of cis-regulatory elements in transcription with KAS-ATAC-seq

R Lyu, Y Gao, T Wu, C Ye, P Wang, C He - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Cis-regulatory elements (CREs) are pivotal in orchestrating gene expression throughout
diverse biological systems. Accurate identification and in-depth characterization of functional …

EOMES establishes mesoderm and endoderm differentiation potential through SWI/SNF-mediated global enhancer remodeling

CM Schröder, L Zissel, SL Mersiowsky, M Tekman… - Developmental cell, 2024 - cell.com
Mammalian pluripotent cells first segregate into neuroectoderm (NE), or mesoderm and
endoderm (ME), characterized by lineage-specific transcriptional programs and chromatin …