Developmental enhancers and chromosome topology

EEM Furlong, M Levine - Science, 2018 - science.org
Developmental enhancers mediate on/off patterns of gene expression in specific cell types
at particular stages during metazoan embryogenesis. They typically integrate multiple …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatin domains: the unit of chromosome organization

JR Dixon, DU Gorkin, B Ren - Molecular cell, 2016 - cell.com
How eukaryotic chromosomes fold inside the nucleus is an age-old question that remains
unanswered today. Early biochemical and microscopic studies revealed the existence of …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted degradation of CTCF decouples local insulation of chromosome domains from genomic compartmentalization

EP Nora, A Goloborodko, AL Valton, JH Gibcus… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The molecular mechanisms underlying folding of mammalian chromosomes remain poorly
understood. The transcription factor CTCF is a candidate regulator of chromosomal …

[HTML][HTML] TIA1 mutations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia promote phase separation and alter stress granule dynamics

IR Mackenzie, AM Nicholson, M Sarkar, J Messing… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are age-related
neurodegenerative disorders with shared genetic etiologies and overlapping clinical and …

[HTML][HTML] The 3D genome as moderator of chromosomal communication

J Dekker, L Mirny - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Proper expression of genes requires communication with their regulatory elements that can
be located elsewhere along the chromosome. The physics of chromatin fibers imposes a …

[HTML][HTML] Topologically associating domain boundaries that are stable across diverse cell types are evolutionarily constrained and enriched for heritability

E McArthur, JA Capra - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Topologically associating domains (TADs) are fundamental units of three-dimensional (3D)
nuclear organization. The regions bordering TADs—TAD boundaries—contribute to the …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic organization of chromatin domains revealed by super-resolution live-cell imaging

T Nozaki, R Imai, M Tanbo, R Nagashima, S Tamura… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
The eukaryotic genome is organized within cells as chromatin. For proper information
output, higher-order chromatin structures can be regulated dynamically. How such structures …

[HTML][HTML] Disruption of chromatin folding domains by somatic genomic rearrangements in human cancer

KC Akdemir, VT Le, S Chandran, Y Li, RG Verhaak… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Chromatin is folded into successive layers to organize linear DNA. Genes within the same
topologically associating domains (TADs) demonstrate similar expression and histone …

[HTML][HTML] Insulated neighborhoods: structural and functional units of mammalian gene control

D Hnisz, DS Day, RA Young - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Understanding how transcriptional enhancers control over 20,000 protein-coding genes to
maintain cell-type-specific gene expression programs in all human cells is a fundamental …

Pan-cancer analysis of somatic copy-number alterations implicates IRS4 and IGF2 in enhancer hijacking

J Weischenfeldt, T Dubash, AP Drainas, BR Mardin… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Extensive prior research focused on somatic copy-number alterations (SCNAs) affecting
cancer genes, yet the extent to which recurrent SCNAs exert their influence through …