Determinants of enhancer and promoter activities of regulatory elements

R Andersson, A Sandelin - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
The proper activities of enhancers and gene promoters are essential for coordinated
transcription within a cell. Although diverse methodologies have been developed to identify …

What are super-enhancers?

S Pott, JD Lieb - Nature genetics, 2015 - nature.com
The term'super-enhancer'has been used to describe groups of putative enhancers in close
genomic proximity with unusually high levels of Mediator binding, as measured by chromatin …

Index and biological spectrum of human DNase I hypersensitive sites

W Meuleman, A Muratov, E Rynes, J Halow, K Lee… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
DNase I hypersensitive sites (DHSs) are generic markers of regulatory DNA,,,–and contain
genetic variations associated with diseases and phenotypic traits,–. We created high …

CRISPR–Cas9 epigenome editing enables high-throughput screening for functional regulatory elements in the human genome

TS Klann, JB Black, M Chellappan, A Safi, L Song… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Large genome-map** consortia and thousands of genome-wide association studies have
identified non-protein-coding elements in the genome as having a central role in various …

CTCF: an architectural protein bridging genome topology and function

CT Ong, VG Corces - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
The eukaryotic genome is organized in the three-dimensional nuclear space in a specific
manner that is both a cause and a consequence of its function. This organization is partly …

Transcription factor–DNA binding: beyond binding site motifs

S Inukai, KH Kock, ML Bulyk - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2017 - Elsevier
Sequence-specific transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression by binding to cis-
regulatory elements in promoter and enhancer DNA. While studies of TF–DNA binding have …

The accessible chromatin landscape of the human genome

RE Thurman, E Rynes, R Humbert, J Vierstra… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
DNase I hypersensitive sites (DHSs) are markers of regulatory DNA and have underpinned
the discovery of all classes of cis-regulatory elements including enhancers, promoters …

Undisclosed, unmet and neglected challenges in multi-omics studies

S Tarazona, A Arzalluz-Luque, A Conesa - Nature Computational …, 2021 - nature.com
Multi-omics approaches have become a reality in both large genomics projects and small
laboratories. However, the multi-omics research community still faces a number of issues …

The role of enhancers in cancer

I Sur, J Taipale - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
Enhancer elements function as the logic gates of the genetic regulatory circuitry. One of their
most important functions is the integration of extracellular signals with intracellular cell fate …

The long-range interaction landscape of gene promoters

A Sanyal, BR Lajoie, G Jain, J Dekker - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The vast non-coding portion of the human genome is full of functional elements and disease-
causing regulatory variants. The principles defining the relationships between these …