Epigenetic modifications in stress response genes associated with childhood trauma

S Jiang, L Postovit, A Cattaneo, EB Binder… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may be referred to by other terms (eg, early life
adversity or stress and childhood trauma) and have a lifelong impact on mental and physical …

New insights into genome folding by loop extrusion from inducible degron technologies

E de Wit, EP Nora - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Chromatin folds into dynamic loops that often span hundreds of kilobases and physically
wire distant loci together for gene regulation. These loops are continuously created …

The selection and function of cell type-specific enhancers

S Heinz, CE Romanoski, C Benner… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
The human body contains several hundred cell types, all of which share the same genome.
In metazoans, much of the regulatory code that drives cell type-specific gene expression is …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Extensive heterogeneity and intrinsic variation in spatial genome organization

EH Finn, G Pegoraro, HB Brandão, AL Valton… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Several general principles of global 3D genome organization have recently been
established, including non-random positioning of chromosomes and genes in the cell …

CTCF and cohesin in genome folding and transcriptional gene regulation

M Merkenschlager, EP Nora - Annual review of genomics and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Genome function, replication, integrity, and propagation rely on the dynamic structural
organization of chromosomes during the cell cycle. Genome folding in interphase provides …

Three-dimensional genome architecture: players and mechanisms

A Pombo, N Dillon - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2015 - nature.com
The different cell types of an organism share the same DNA, but during cell differentiation
their genomes undergo diverse structural and organizational changes that affect gene …

Genome architecture: domain organization of interphase chromosomes

WA Bickmore, B Van Steensel - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
The architecture of interphase chromosomes is important for the regulation of gene
expression and genome maintenance. Chromosomes are linearly segmented into hundreds …

Biogenesis and function of nuclear bodies

YS Mao, B Zhang, DL Spector - Trends in Genetics, 2011 - cell.com
Nuclear bodies including nucleoli, Cajal bodies, nuclear speckles, Polycomb bodies, and
paraspeckles are membraneless subnuclear organelles. They are present at steady-state …

Self-organization of domain structures by DNA-loop-extruding enzymes

E Alipour, JF Marko - Nucleic acids research, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The long chromosomal DNAs of cells are organized into loop domains much larger in size
than individual DNA-binding enzymes, presenting the question of how formation of such …