Pathology and pathobiology of pulmonary hypertension: current insights and future directions

C Guignabert, J Aman, S Bonnet… - European …, 2024 - publications.ersnet.org
In recent years, major advances have been made in the understanding of the cellular and
molecular mechanisms driving pulmonary vascular remodelling in various forms of …

Decoding enhancer complexity with machine learning and high-throughput discovery

GD Smith, WH Ching, P Cornejo-Páramo, ES Wong - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Enhancers are genomic DNA elements controlling spatiotemporal gene expression. Their
flexible organization and functional redundancies make deciphering their sequence-function …

Spatially organized cellular communities form the develo** human heart

EN Farah, RK Hu, C Kern, Q Zhang, TY Lu, Q Ma… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The heart, which is the first organ to develop, is highly dependent on its form to function,.
However, how diverse cardiac cell types spatially coordinate to create the complex …

Current genomic deep learning models display decreased performance in cell type-specific accessible regions

P Kathail, RW Shuai, R Chung, CJ Ye, GB Loeb… - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Background A number of deep learning models have been developed to predict epigenetic
features such as chromatin accessibility from DNA sequence. Model evaluations commonly …

Chromatin accessibility: biological functions, molecular mechanisms and therapeutic application

Y Chen, R Liang, Y Li, L Jiang, D Ma, Q Luo… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
The dynamic regulation of chromatin accessibility is one of the prominent characteristics of
eukaryotic genome. The inaccessible regions are mainly located in heterochromatin, which …

Single-cell chromatin accessibility reveals malignant regulatory programs in primary human cancers

L Sundaram, A Kumar, M Zatzman, A Salcedo… - Science, 2024 - science.org
To identify cancer-associated gene regulatory changes, we generated single-cell chromatin
accessibility landscapes across eight tumor types as part of The Cancer Genome Atlas …

[HTML][HTML] Long noncoding RNAs in cardiovascular disease

A Kohlmaier, LM Holdt, D Teupser - Current opinion in cardiology, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Summary lncRNA research is passing the stage of enumerating lncRNAs or recording
simplified on-off expression switches. Mechanistic analyses are starting to reveal …

CRISPRi/a screens in human iPSC-cardiomyocytes identify glycolytic activation as a druggable target for doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity

C Liu, M Shen, Y Liu, A Manhas, SR Zhao, M Zhang… - Cell Stem Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Doxorubicin is limited in its therapeutic utility due to its life-threatening cardiovascular side
effects. Here, we present an integrated drug discovery pipeline combining human induced …

Stepwise generation of human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiac pericytes to model coronary microvascular dysfunction

M Shen, C Liu, SR Zhao, A Manhas, L Sundaram… - Circulation, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiac pericytes (CPs), a major mural cell type maintaining homeostasis, integrity, and
perfusion of the coronary microvasculature, remain the most enigmatic and …

Single-cell multi-modal integrative analyses highlight functional dynamic gene regulatory networks directing human cardiac development

AR Holman, S Tran, E Destici, EN Farah, T Li… - Cell Genomics, 2024 - cell.com
Illuminating the precise stepwise genetic programs directing cardiac development provides
insights into the mechanisms of congenital heart disease and strategies for cardiac …