Mechanisms controlling cellular and systemic iron homeostasis

B Galy, M Conrad, M Muckenthaler - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
In mammals, hundreds of proteins use iron in a multitude of cellular functions, including vital
processes such as mitochondrial respiration, gene regulation and DNA synthesis or repair …

Genetic models of human and mouse dendritic cell development and function

DA Anderson III, CA Dutertre, F Ginhoux… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Dendritic cells (DCs) develop in the bone marrow from haematopoietic progenitors that have
numerous shared characteristics between mice and humans. Human counterparts of mouse …

3D enhancer-promoter interactions and multi-connected hubs: Organizational principles and functional roles

CM Uyehara, E Apostolou - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The spatiotemporal control of gene expression is dependent on the activity of cis-acting
regulatory sequences, called enhancers, which regulate target genes over variable genomic …

Direct promoter repression by BCL11A controls the fetal to adult hemoglobin switch

N Liu, VV Hargreaves, Q Zhu, JV Kurland, J Hong… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Fetal hemoglobin (HbF, α 2 γ 2) level is genetically controlled and modifies severity of adult
hemoglobin (HbA, α 2 β 2) disorders, sickle cell disease, and β-thalassemia. Common …

Systematic mapping of functional enhancer–promoter connections with CRISPR interference

CP Fulco, M Munschauer, R Anyoha, G Munson… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Gene expression in mammals is regulated by noncoding elements that can affect physiology
and disease, yet the functions and target genes of most noncoding elements remain …

The 3D Genome Browser: a web-based browser for visualizing 3D genome organization and long-range chromatin interactions

Y Wang, F Song, B Zhang, L Zhang, J Xu, D Kuang… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Here, we introduce the 3D Genome Browser, http://3dgenome. org, which allows users to
conveniently explore both their own and over 300 publicly available chromatin interaction …

Nested epistasis enhancer networks for robust genome regulation

X Lin, Y Liu, S Liu, X Zhu, L Wu, Y Zhu, D Zhao, X Xu… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Mammalian genomes have multiple enhancers spanning an ultralong distance (>
megabases) to modulate important genes, but it is unclear how these enhancers coordinate …

Live-cell imaging reveals enhancer-dependent Sox2 transcription in the absence of enhancer proximity

JM Alexander, J Guan, B Li, L Maliskova, M Song… - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Enhancers are important regulatory elements that can control gene activity across vast
genetic distances. However, the underlying nature of this regulation remains obscured …

Interrogation of enhancer function by enhancer-targeting CRISPR epigenetic editing

K Li, Y Liu, H Cao, Y Zhang, Z Gu, X Liu, A Yu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tissue-specific gene expression requires coordinated control of gene-proximal and-distal
cis-regulatory elements (CREs), yet functional analysis of gene-distal CREs such as …

Dictys: dynamic gene regulatory network dissects developmental continuum with single-cell multiomics

L Wang, N Trasanidis, T Wu, G Dong, M Hu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) are key determinants of cell function and identity and are
dynamically rewired during development and disease. Despite decades of advancement …