Understanding 3D genome organization by multidisciplinary methods

I Jerkovic, G Cavalli - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding how chromatin is folded in the nucleus is fundamental to understanding its
function. Although 3D genome organization has been historically difficult to study owing to a …

Computational methods for analysing multiscale 3D genome organization

Y Zhang, L Boninsegna, M Yang, T Misteli… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent progress in whole-genome map** and imaging technologies has enabled the
characterization of the spatial organization and folding of the genome in the nucleus. In …

Identifying statistically significant chromatin contacts from Hi-C data with FitHiC2

A Kaul, S Bhattacharyya, F Ay - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
Fit-Hi-C is a programming application to compute statistical confidence estimates for Hi-C
contact maps to identify significant chromatin contacts. By fitting a monotonically non …

Mustache: multi-scale detection of chromatin loops from Hi-C and Micro-C maps using scale-space representation

A Roayaei Ardakany, HT Gezer, S Lonardi, F Ay - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
We present Mustache, a new method for multi-scale detection of chromatin loops from Hi-C
and Micro-C contact maps. Mustache employs scale-space theory, a technical advance in …

Identification of significant chromatin contacts from HiChIP data by FitHiChIP

S Bhattacharyya, V Chandra, P Vijayanand… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
HiChIP/PLAC-seq is increasingly becoming popular for profiling 3D chromatin contacts
among regulatory elements and for annotating functions of genetic variants. Here we …

Measuring the reproducibility and quality of Hi-C data

GG Yardımcı, H Ozadam, MEG Sauria, O Ursu, KK Yan… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Background Hi-C is currently the most widely used assay to investigate the 3D organization
of the genome and to study its role in gene regulation, DNA replication, and disease …

A unified atlas of CD8 T cell dysfunctional states in cancer and infection

Y Pritykin, J van der Veeken, AR Pine, Y Zhong… - Molecular Cell, 2021 - cell.com
CD8 T cells play an essential role in defense against viral and bacterial infections and in
tumor immunity. Deciphering T cell loss of functionality is complicated by the conspicuous …

EZH2 oncogenic mutations drive epigenetic, transcriptional, and structural changes within chromatin domains

MC Donaldson-Collier, S Sungalee, M Zufferey… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Chromatin is organized into topologically associating domains (TADs) enriched in distinct
histone marks. In cancer, gain-of-function mutations in the gene encoding the enhancer of …

Chromatin interaction–aware gene regulatory modeling with graph attention networks

A Karbalayghareh, M Sahin, CS Leslie - Genome Research, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Linking distal enhancers to genes and modeling their impact on target gene expression are
longstanding unresolved problems in regulatory genomics and critical for interpreting …

Histone acetylation dynamics modulates chromatin conformation and allele-specific interactions at oncogenic loci

S Sungalee, Y Liu, RA Lambuta, N Katanayeva… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In cancer cells, enhancer hijacking mediated by chromosomal alterations and/or increased
deposition of acetylated histone H3 lysine 27 (H3K27ac) can support oncogene expression …