Aging and rejuvenation of neural stem cells and their niches

PN Negredo, RW Yeo, A Brunet - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
Aging has a profound and devastating effect on the brain. Old age is accompanied by
declining cognitive function and enhanced risk of brain diseases, including cancer and …

3D chromatin architecture and transcription regulation in cancer

S Deng, Y Feng, S Pauklin - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2022 - Springer
Chromatin has distinct three-dimensional (3D) architectures important in key biological
processes, such as cell cycle, replication, differentiation, and transcription regulation. In turn …

MyoD is a 3D genome structure organizer for muscle cell identity

R Wang, F Chen, Q Chen, X Wan, M Shi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The genome exists as an organized, three-dimensional (3D) dynamic architecture, and each
cell type has a unique 3D genome organization that determines its cell identity. An …

Single-cell analyses reveal YAP/TAZ as regulators of stemness and cell plasticity in glioblastoma

M Castellan, A Guarnieri, A Fujimura, F Zanconato… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating human malignancy. GBM stem-like cells (GSCs) drive
tumor initiation and progression. Yet the molecular determinants defining GSCs in their …

[HTML][HTML] Oncogenic extrachromosomal DNA functions as mobile enhancers to globally amplify chromosomal transcription

Y Zhu, AD Gujar, CH Wong, H Tjong, CY Ngan, L Gong… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Extrachromosomal, circular DNA (ecDNA) is emerging as a prevalent yet less characterized
oncogenic alteration in cancer genomes. We leverage ChIA-PET and ChIA-Drop chromatin …

[HTML][HTML] More than just stem cells: functional roles of the transcription factor Sox2 in differentiated glia and neurons

S Mercurio, L Serra, SK Nicolis - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The Sox2 transcription factor, encoded by a gene conserved in animal evolution, has
become widely known because of its functional relevance for stem cells. In the develo** …

3D organization of regulatory elements for transcriptional regulation in Arabidopsis

L Deng, Q Zhou, J Zhou, Q Zhang, Z Jia, G Zhu… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Although spatial organization of compartments and topologically associating
domains at large scale is relatively well studied, the spatial organization of regulatory …

Rewiring of 3D chromatin topology orchestrates transcriptional reprogramming and the development of human dilated cardiomyopathy

Y Feng, L Cai, W Hong, C Zhang, N Tan, M Wang… - Circulation, 2022 - ahajournals.org
Background: Transcriptional reconfiguration is central to heart failure, the most common
cause of which is dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). The effect of 3-dimensional chromatin …

[HTML][HTML] Deconstructing Sox2 function in brain development and disease

S Mercurio, L Serra, M Pagin, SK Nicolis - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
SOX2 is a transcription factor conserved throughout vertebrate evolution, whose expression
marks the central nervous system from the earliest developmental stages. In humans, SOX2 …

Epigenetic reprogramming of a distal developmental enhancer cluster drives SOX2 overexpression in breast and lung adenocarcinoma

LE Abatti, P Lado-Fernández, L Huynh… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Enhancer reprogramming has been proposed as a key source of transcriptional
dysregulation during tumorigenesis, but the molecular mechanisms underlying this process …