Transcriptional elongation control in developmental gene expression, aging, and disease

Y Aoi, A Shilatifard - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
The elongation stage of transcription by RNA polymerase II (RNA Pol II) is central to the
regulation of gene expression in response to developmental and environmental cues in …

Ferroptosis surveillance independent of GPX4 and differentially regulated by sex hormones

D Liang, Y Feng, F Zandkarimi, H Wang, Z Zhang… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Ferroptosis, a cell death process driven by iron-dependent phospholipid peroxidation, has
been implicated in various diseases. There are two major surveillance mechanisms to …

Epigenetic regulation in major depression and other stress-related disorders: molecular mechanisms, clinical relevance and therapeutic potential

M Yuan, B Yang, G Rothschild, JJ Mann… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a chronic, generally episodic and debilitating disease
that affects an estimated 300 million people worldwide, but its pathogenesis is poorly …

R-loop-dependent promoter-proximal termination ensures genome stability

C Xu, C Li, J Chen, Y **ong, Z Qiao, P Fan, C Li, S Ma… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The proper regulation of transcription is essential for maintaining genome integrity and
executing other downstream cellular functions,. Here we identify a stable association …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell epigenomic reconstruction of developmental trajectories from pluripotency in human neural organoid systems

F Zenk, JS Fleck, SMJ Jansen, B Kashanian… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cell fate progression of pluripotent progenitors is strictly regulated, resulting in high human
cell diversity. Epigenetic modifications also orchestrate cell fate restriction. Unveiling the …

[HTML][HTML] An epigenetic barrier sets the timing of human neuronal maturation

G Ciceri, A Baggiolini, HS Cho, M Kshirsagar… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The pace of human brain development is highly protracted compared with most other
species,,,,,–. The maturation of cortical neurons is particularly slow, taking months to years to …

ChIP-DIP maps binding of hundreds of proteins to DNA simultaneously and identifies diverse gene regulatory elements

AA Perez, IN Goronzy, MR Blanco, BT Yeh, JK Guo… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Gene expression is controlled by dynamic localization of thousands of regulatory proteins to
precise genomic regions. Understanding this cell type-specific process has been a …

Non-canonical MLL1 activity regulates centromeric phase separation and genome stability

L Sha, Z Yang, S An, W Yang, S Kim, H Oh, J Xu… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Epigenetic dysregulation is a prominent feature in cancer, as exemplified by frequent
mutations in chromatin regulators, including the MLL/KMT2 family of histone …

Collisions of RNA polymerases behind the replication fork promote alternative RNA splicing in newly replicated chromatin

F Bruno, C Coronel-Guisado, C González-Aguilera - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
DNA replication produces a global disorganization of chromatin structure that takes hours to
be restored. However, how these chromatin rearrangements affect the regulation of gene …

Mechanisms of heat stress-induced transcriptional memory

L Pratx, T Crawford, I Bäurle - Current opinion in plant biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Transcriptional memory allows organisms to store information about transcriptional
reprogramming in response to a stimulus. In plants, this often involves the response to an …