Towards a comprehensive catalogue of validated and target-linked human enhancers

M Gasperini, JM Tome, J Shendure - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020‏ - nature.com
The human gene catalogue is essentially complete, but we lack an equivalently vetted
inventory of bona fide human enhancers. Hundreds of thousands of candidate enhancers …

Mechanisms tailoring the expression of heat shock proteins to proteostasis challenges

LRA Boopathy, S Jacob-Tomas, C Alecki… - Journal of Biological …, 2022‏ - jbc.org
All cells possess an internal stress response to cope with environmental and
pathophysiological challenges. Upon stress, cells reprogram their molecular functions to …

Nascent RNA analyses: tracking transcription and its regulation

EM Wissink, A Vihervaara, ND Tippens… - Nature Reviews …, 2019‏ - nature.com
The programmes that direct an organism's development and maintenance are encoded in its
genome. Decoding of this information begins with regulated transcription of genomic DNA …

Transcriptional reprogramming at the intersection of the heat shock response and proteostasis

JC Pessa, J Joutsen, L Sistonen - Molecular cell, 2024‏ - cell.com
Cellular homeostasis is constantly challenged by a myriad of extrinsic and intrinsic stressors.
To mitigate the stress-induced damage, cells activate transient survival programs. The heat …

Molecular mechanisms of heat shock factor 1 regulation

SW Kmiecik, MP Mayer - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2022‏ - cell.com
To thrive and to fulfill their functions, cells need to maintain proteome homeostasis even in
the face of adverse environmental conditions or radical restructuring of the proteome during …

Molecular mechanisms driving transcriptional stress responses

A Vihervaara, FM Duarte, JT Lis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018‏ - nature.com
Proteotoxic stress, that is, stress caused by protein misfolding and aggregation, triggers the
rapid and global reprogramming of transcription at genes and enhancers. Genome-wide …

Roles of heat shock factor 1 beyond the heat shock response

J Barna, P Csermely, T Vellai - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2018‏ - Springer
Various stress factors leading to protein damage induce the activation of an evolutionarily
conserved cell protective mechanism, the heat shock response (HSR), to maintain protein …

[HTML][HTML] Stress-induced nuclear condensation of NELF drives transcriptional downregulation

P Rawat, M Boehning, B Hummel, F Aprile-Garcia… - Molecular cell, 2021‏ - cell.com
In response to stress, human cells coordinately downregulate transcription and translation of
housekee** genes. To downregulate transcription, the negative elongation factor (NELF) …

Single-molecule nascent RNA sequencing identifies regulatory domain architecture at promoters and enhancers

JM Tome, ND Tippens, JT Lis - Nature genetics, 2018‏ - nature.com
Abstract Eukaryotic RNA polymerase II (Pol II) has been found at both promoters and distal
enhancers, suggesting additional functions beyond mRNA production. To understand this …

Enhancer RNA: What we know and what we can achieve

Z Han, W Li - Cell Proliferation, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Enhancers are important cis‐acting elements that can regulate gene transcription and cell
fate alongside promoters. In fact, many human cancers and diseases are associated with the …