Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression

MS Hill, P Vande Zande, PJ Wittkopp - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Heritable variation in gene expression is common within and between species. This
variation arises from mutations that alter the form or function of molecular gene regulatory …

Determinants of nucleosome positioning

K Struhl, E Segal - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2013 - nature.com
Nucleosome positioning is critical for gene expression and most DNA-related processes.
Here we review the dominant patterns of nucleosome positioning that have been observed …

[HTML][HTML] Endothelial cells are central orchestrators of cytokine amplification during influenza virus infection

JR Teijaro, KB Walsh, S Cahalan, DM Fremgen… - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
Cytokine storm during viral infection is a prospective predictor of morbidity and mortality, yet
the cellular sources remain undefined. Here, using genetic and chemical tools to probe …

Determinants of nucleosome organization in primary human cells

A Valouev, SM Johnson, SD Boyd, CL Smith, AZ Fire… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Nucleosomes are the basic packaging units of chromatin, modulating accessibility of
regulatory proteins to DNA and thus influencing eukaryotic gene regulation. Elaborate …

Comparative studies of gene expression and the evolution of gene regulation

IG Romero, I Ruvinsky, Y Gilad - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
The hypothesis that differences in gene regulation have an important role in speciation and
adaptation is more than 40 years old. With the advent of new sequencing technologies, we …

Chromatin and transcription in yeast

OJ Rando, F Winston - Genetics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the mechanisms by which chromatin structure controls eukaryotic
transcription has been an intense area of investigation for the past 25 years. Many of the key …

High-resolution nucleosome map** reveals transcription-dependent promoter packaging

A Weiner, A Hughes, M Yassour, OJ Rando… - Genome …, 2010 - genome.cshlp.org
Genome-wide map** of nucleosomes has revealed a great deal about the relationships
between chromatin structure and control of gene expression, and has led to mechanistic …

What controls nucleosome positions?

E Segal, J Widom - Trends in Genetics, 2009 - cell.com
The DNA of eukaryotic genomes is wrapped in nucleosomes, which strongly distort and
occlude the DNA from access to most DNA-binding proteins. An understanding of the …

Identification of a large set of rare complete human knockouts

P Sulem, H Helgason, A Oddson, H Stefansson… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Loss-of-function mutations cause many mendelian diseases. Here we aimed to create a
catalog of autosomal genes that are completely knocked out in humans by rare loss-of …

Epigenetic responses to environmental change and their evolutionary implications

BM Turner - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Chromatin is a complex of DNA, RNA, histones and non-histone proteins and provides the
platform on which the transcriptional machinery operates in eukaryotes. The structure and …