Roles of transposable elements in the regulation of mammalian transcription

R Fueyo, J Judd, C Feschotte, J Wysocka - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) comprise about half of the mammalian genome. TEs often
contain sequences capable of recruiting the host transcription machinery, which they use to …

CRISPR technologies for precise epigenome editing

M Nakamura, Y Gao, AA Dominguez, LS Qi - Nature Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
The epigenome involves a complex set of cellular processes governing genomic activity.
Dissecting this complexity necessitates the development of tools capable of specifically …

Enhancer–promoter interactions and transcription are largely maintained upon acute loss of CTCF, cohesin, WAPL or YY1

THS Hsieh, C Cattoglio, E Slobodyanyuk, AS Hansen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
It remains unclear why acute depletion of CTCF (CCCTC-binding factor) and cohesin only
marginally affects expression of most genes despite substantially perturbing three …

The relationship between genome structure and function

AM Oudelaar, DR Higgs - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Precise patterns of gene expression in metazoans are controlled by three classes of
regulatory elements: promoters, enhancers and boundary elements. During differentiation …

YY1-controlled regulatory connectivity and transcription are influenced by the cell cycle

JC Lam, NG Aboreden, SC Midla, S Wang, A Huang… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Few transcription factors have been examined for their direct roles in physically connecting
enhancers and promoters. Here acute degradation of Yin Yang 1 (YY1) in erythroid cells …

In situ genome sequencing resolves DNA sequence and structure in intact biological samples

AC Payne, ZD Chiang, PL Reginato, SM Mangiameli… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Genomes are spatially organized across length scales from single base
pairs to whole chromosomes. This organization is thought to regulate gene expression and …

Identification of non-coding silencer elements and their regulation of gene expression

B Pang, JH van Weerd, FL Hamoen… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Cell type-and differentiation-specific gene expression is precisely controlled by genomic non-
coding regulatory elements (NCREs), which include promoters, enhancers, silencers and …

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 …

On the wrong DNA track: Molecular mechanisms of repeat-mediated genome instability

AN Khristich, SM Mirkin - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2020 - ASBMB
Expansions of simple tandem repeats are responsible for almost 50 human diseases, the
majority of which are severe, degenerative, and not currently treatable or preventable. In this …

Lamina-associated domains: peripheral matters and internal affairs

N Briand, P Collas - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
At the nuclear periphery, associations of chromatin with the nuclear lamina through lamina-
associated domains (LADs) aid functional organization of the genome. We review the …