Mechanics and functional consequences of nuclear deformations

Y Kalukula, AD Stephens, J Lammerding… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2022 - nature.com
As the home of cellular genetic information, the nucleus has a critical role in determining cell
fate and function in response to various signals and stimuli. In addition to biochemical …

[PDF][PDF] Lamina-associated domains: links with chromosome architecture, heterochromatin, and gene repression

B Van Steensel, AS Belmont - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
In metazoan cell nuclei, hundreds of large chromatin domains are in close contact with the
nuclear lamina. Such lamina-associated domains (LADs) are thought to help organize …

The role of transcription in shaping the spatial organization of the genome

B van Steensel, EEM Furlong - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
The spatial organization of the genome into compartments and topologically associated
domains can have an important role in the regulation of gene expression. But could gene …

Translatome and transcriptome co-profiling reveals a role of TPRXs in human zygotic genome activation

Z Zou, C Zhang, Q Wang, Z Hou, Z Xiong, F Kong… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Translational regulation plays a critical role during the oocyte-to-embryo transition (OET)
and zygotic genome activation (ZGA). Here, we integrated ultra-low-input ribosome profiling …

Phase separation mediates NUP98 fusion oncoprotein leukemic transformation

B Chandra, NL Michmerhuizen, HK Shirnekhi… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
NUP98 fusion oncoproteins (FO) are drivers in pediatric leukemias and many transform
hematopoietic cells. Most NUP98 FOs harbor an intrinsically disordered region from NUP98 …

[PDF][PDF] Parental genome unification is highly error-prone in mammalian embryos

T Cavazza, Y Takeda, AZ Politi, M Aushev, P Aldag… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Most human embryos are aneuploid. Aneuploidy frequently arises during the early mitotic
divisions of the embryo, but its origin remains elusive. Human zygotes that cluster their …

[PDF][PDF] Mutant huntingtin disrupts the nuclear pore complex

JC Grima, JG Daigle, N Arbez, KC Cunningham… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by an expanded CAG repeat in the Huntingtin (HTT)
gene. The mechanism (s) by which mutant HTT (mHTT) causes disease is unclear …

[PDF][PDF] In situ capture of chromatin interactions by biotinylated dCas9

X Liu, Y Zhang, Y Chen, M Li, F Zhou, K Li, H Cao, M Ni… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Cis-regulatory elements (CREs) are commonly recognized by correlative chromatin features,
yet the molecular composition of the vast majority of CREs in chromatin remains unknown …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

The driving force: nuclear mechanotransduction in cellular function, fate, and disease

M Maurer, J Lammerding - Annual review of biomedical …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Cellular behavior is continuously affected by microenvironmental forces through the process
of mechanotransduction, in which mechanical stimuli are rapidly converted to biochemical …